Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Celle qui devint le soleil by Shelley Parker-Chan

354 reviews

isabellyboo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

valkyri_anna's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Sexual content

blakeandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I’m so excited to start book 2!!! I feel like it will emotionally destroy me and I am soooo ready.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, and Sexual content

abnormal_shadow's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I absolutely love this book I went into it not knowing what I would get not really expecting anything but it was so good. The characters their motivations the way that the story represents their motivation not only physically but mentally and spiritually also is just so amazing I love the format of the book. The way that characters genders and sexual orientations influence the plot and the way that they speak to not only themselves but others is absolutely stunning.

in the book The main character adopts the name of her dead brother by proxy also adopting the state that a fortune teller gave him which was greatness and renouncing the Fate that the fortune teller gave her which was nothing . Throughout most of the book the main character struggles coping with the fact that she was not born a man and that the heavens May recognize this and see what she had done and renounce her fate and kill her. I love the after the main character gets her arm cut off she becomes a new person . She is no longer in the mental space of I need to be someone I am not or I will die instead she sees herself as a different person entirely not the little girl that was subsequently buried that day not the dead brother that she stole the life of instead she is something else entirely not a man not a woman . I love that her wife except her as who she is physically but has a hard time accepting the fact that she will have to sacrifice the empathy that the main character loves so much so that she can stay with the main character who is just going on a killing spree.

It is challenging and amazing and I love it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Outing

areyouciarious's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Sexism, Blood, Grief, Murder, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Racism, Torture, and Pregnancy

mirasu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Lovingly researched, masterfully executed, and conceptually airtight. Parker-Chan does dualism, tragedy, and narrative foils SO well... I'm glad to know there's genre fiction about QTPOC of this caliber out there.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and War

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexism, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and Dysphoria

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Slavery, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

pgxpg's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Murder, and War

Minor: Ableism and Body horror

ohitsasa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

shermansays's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Death, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Cannibalism, and Alcohol