Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Gideon la Nona by Tamsyn Muir

85 reviews

annapox'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Torture, Vomit, Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Medical content, and Cursing

Moderate: Cannibalism, Blood, Grief, and Self harm

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Confinement, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, War, Child death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Slavery

trickphoenix's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Self harm, Death of parent, Blood, Confinement, Xenophobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: War, Grief, and Cancer

ireadinbed's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.5

You ever take a long time to read a book because you just feel like it can't live up to the hype? I did that with this book. 

And it was such a mistake. Hype fully lives up to. So Irreverent and gross and very epic feeling. 

Loved the characters. Enjoyed the texture a lot. The world building is very interesting and layered. 

It did suffer a bit from that big fantasy book too much infor at once in the first bits, but it evened out quickly and the rest read spectacularly fast. 

I would have given this 5 stars if there had been a bit better foreshadowing on a few things. I think. 

The only thing is 

there is a bit at the end that just felt 'bury your gays' esque. I'm not sure it qualifies, but I was real not happy about it. But there was some mystery it may be resolved later.

It might be a 5star reread and I can totally see myself rereading it. I'm pretty sure this will be a buy for me and I only buy a few books a year so that's saying something! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Murder, Self harm, Death of parent, Death, Toxic friendship, and Infertility

panthalassa's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment, Cannibalism, Classism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical content, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and War

rubybastille's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.75

The advantage to reading this via e-reader was not having a clear view of the cover before beginning, leading to a moment of shocked cackling when I realized our asshole hero Gideon is in fact representing her royal grimdark house of black-robed and skull-facepainted necromancers while wearing aviators.

So, yeah, if queer enemies-to-something-resembling-lovers starring one goth necromancy prodigy and one sword-wielding smartass with a flaming red pixie cut, aviators, and the sense of humor of a rusty halberd, fighting skeletons in an ancient haunted palace in space sounds like your jam…here you go.

Just maybe check the CWs because there’s a good bit of widely varied yikes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Self harm and Cannibalism

jjjreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence

voxelbee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Terminal illness

Minor: Abandonment, Cursing, Genocide, Suicide, Vomit, and War

jcath's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny

5.0

Graphic body horror and gore, details descriptions of human anatomy with a focus on the skeleton.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Cancer and Self harm

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

redkeys's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

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

5.0

lesbian space necromancers. delightfully macabre 10/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Cannibalism, Child death, and Cancer

casp's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

new Favourite book 💖💕💖 gideon is the perfect example of a young butch lesbian, its such a humanizing depiction of lesbians and their thoughts that i havent seen in a lot of books, i keep wanting to go back to reread it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Grief and Self harm