Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Gideon la Nona by Tamsyn Muir

109 reviews

eeriekeri's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The mysterious air of the book is fun. The relationship between Gideon and Harrow feels a little fast and forced, moving from "hate" to "love" with a speed that sometimes feels genuine and sometimes feels toxic. My main complaint is that nobody gets their kisses in in the entire book. Boo. Also, very grumpy that we don't get to enjoy the Gideon/Harrow stevonnie perspective for very long.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Genocide

apiologee's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-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

Absolutely adored this. Wildly inventive with the weirdest prose and most pathetically and perplexingly lovable characters. Loved being held hostage by this ridiculous, gorgeous read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Death, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death and Genocide

metalballwheatley's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious 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

The first act is a bit confusing but it gets interesting from the second act onwards. I rated it 5 stars just because the last two acts blew my mind. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Genocide

Minor: Child abuse, Blood, and Death of parent

evelphysicist's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Genocide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Genocide and Slavery

templetoncecelia's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide

imogenlj's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

mads_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Colonisation

Minor: Chronic illness, Infertility, Miscarriage, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

nikenacs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Me, reading act 1 through 3: oh dang what a great book! Snarky himbo lesbian narrator, vibrant side characters, amazing dense worldbuilding, some murder mysteries, skeletons galore, this is so enjoyable, I see why this gets recommended so much! :) 

Me reading acts 4 and 5: I am in pieces on the floor. I am a broken husk of a person.

This gave me the beautiful Enemies to Power Couple I was so desperately craving, and then immediately yanked out of my small gay hands. The pool scene put the dagger in my heart, and the final fighting scenes pushed it through. I have not loved a protagonist as much as I loved Gideon, and a relationship as much as Gideon & Harrow, in a long time, and now she's DEAD?? Fuck this.

 10 out of 5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness and Terminal illness

storykath's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Gotta say, I was very confused a lot of the time. I appreciated that there was no clunky exposition sections, but I did feel thrown into the deep end in terms of the universe and magic system and everything. As such, I didn't always fully understand why everything happened the way it happened (especially towards the end) but overall I could still appreciate what was going on.

Gideon was a fantastic narrator, funny and flawed and truly unique. She's chaotic and hilarious!

This book took me a while to get through, and I think that's partly due to my brain being picky about reading, but also partly because of how gory and tense things got in the story. I couldn't always stomach it for multiple chapters at a time. Between the injuries and the sometimes-dense plot, this was a book I had to tackle in smallish chunks. That being said, I'm starting the sequel right away so I don't forget any important plot points.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Genocide, Self harm, Terminal illness, Vomit, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Minor: Excrement, Medical content, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

nav26's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Gideon loves her swords, her dirty magazines, and....that's about it. She hates the ninth house, hates their dreary planet, their basically dead population, and everything else in her vicinity - especially Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Ninth House necromancer. In fact, Gideon is ready to run away - until the ninth house needs her, and won't let her go until she's fulfilled this ask for them. The Emperor has invited the heirs of each of the houses and their cavaliers to complete a series of trials, with the winner becoming an immortal, all-powerful Lyctor for the Emperor. 

What follows is dark, gruesome, scary, and yet Gideon's narration brings a levity and humor that is much needed. This book could have been super tense and terrifying if they went the thriller route, but instead you're laughing out loud in between gruesome scenes. This book was a wild ride from start to finish, and at no point did I know what was going to happen, which is pretty rare for me. It was recommended to me from multiple friends and I was NOT disappointed whatsoever. I was hooked on this, finding any opportunity to listen to the audiobook or turn on my Kobo for the ebook. The audiobook narrator, Moira Quirk, is absolute perfection, delivering each of the voices distinctly and making it easy to keep track of the large cast of characters. This book starts out a bit hunger games, has a dash of murder mystery, and a whole lot of necromancy. Taking a break to process before I read the sequel, but you better believe I've already bought it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Genocide, and Suicide