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benegesserwitch's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
Graphic: Medical content, Body shaming, Colonisation, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Trafficking, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Ableism, Violence, Body horror, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and War
Moderate: Pregnancy, Addiction, Racial slurs, and Blood
maxineslittlenook's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Slavery, Misogyny, Cultural appropriation, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Rape, and Medical trauma
Minor: Cannibalism, Confinement, Racial slurs, and Classism
sometimes_samantha_reads's review against another edition
Graphic: Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Body horror, Blood, Death, Gore, Sexual violence, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Violence, and War
maekay's review against another edition
Graphic: Body horror, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual violence
atsundarsingh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Confinement, Death, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence
bigcheese's review against another edition
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
In my first two attempts at reading this beast I couldn’t get past the first two chapters. It was so bizarre and foreign a thing to be reading that I couldn’t comprehend what I read. I have had an attempt at another such fantasy in the past, ‘Chung Kuo: Middle Kingdom.’ ‘The Vorrh’ has a poetic, and sometimes hard to understand quality about it’s style, whereas ‘Chung Kuo’ was very straightforward - when you’ve taken in the landscape. For more than the first half of ‘The Vorrh’ the tale manifested in a hazy fever-dream vision which was hardly stimulating in the long term, only some sequences sticking easily, but in this last couple hundred pages from the past week or two have moulded into a normal lens view of the dramas of a fantasy narrative - I understand! Most notably vivid and fun was a sequence between a character named Sidrus and a character named Nebsuel that felt like something right out of the film version of ‘The Princess Bride.’
With my newfound comprehension of “The Fantasy” I just re read a couple chapters worth of stuff and fixed some loose connections and man, this is a good book. Totally interesting stuff going on - the least interesting being the stuff with the babies and Maclish. I have the plot, pray it sticks. On to the next one.
Minor: Sexual assault, Violence, and Body horror