Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

Gideon la Nona by Tamsyn Muir

83 reviews

qraveline's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Slavery, and Gore

Minor: Physical abuse, Murder, Suicide, Violence, and Emotional abuse

nerdysread's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

FUCK

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Bullying, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Physical abuse, Suicide, and Emotional abuse

littlebluenaiad's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Slavery, and Classism

frankensteinsmonster's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious 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

Beautifully written with an incredibly potent atmosphere with morbid, dreary tones that contrast wonderfully against Gideon's funny, shitty teenage sense of humor within her internal narration. The worldbuilding is incredible and the concepts presented can only be described as intensely badass, and the characters are explored beautifully despite the breadth of the cast. The mystery is rich and rewarding, the setup for the sequel is engaging and exciting, each turn was both unexpected and set up beautifully. One of the best pieces of sci-fi / fantasy fiction i've read in a long, long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Suicide, Death, and Physical abuse

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: Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, and Violence

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

Minor: Suicide

gmalmquist'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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Death, Death of parent, Gore, and Murder

orlagal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and War

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

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

Moderate: Terminal illness and Chronic illness

anntharai's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.0

At first I thought this was going to be another victim of its own popularity as it took me a while to come around, but without the epic expectations set by other readers I would have loved it from the start I think. 

It’s funny, dark, and genuinely entertaining. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, Body horror, Religious bigotry, Blood, War, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Cursing, Confinement, Child death, Violence, Slavery, Murder, Death, Classism, Child abuse, and Cancer