Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Gideon la Nona by Tamsyn Muir

67 reviews

mycatnorbert's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Abandonment, Death, War, Cancer, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Suicide attempt, and Emotional abuse

savvy999's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

My big buff gal. :) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, War, and Murder

Moderate: Child death and Suicide

Minor: Abandonment

reading_grin's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Dobře napsaná kniha, ale slíbené lesby=několik málo narážek, nesnáším konec!

Proč bych měla číst druhý díl, když se na konci prvního ZLIKVIDUJÍ VŠECHNY POSTAVY I PROSTŘEDÍ ?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Murder, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Infertility

abbyschalupa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Murder, Gore, Blood, Cursing, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Cannibalism, Self harm, Abandonment, Medical content, and Torture

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

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

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

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

doubledevour's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Cannibalism, Blood, Child death, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Body horror, Bullying, and Genocide

Moderate: Classism, Miscarriage, Torture, and Terminal illness

raelinrou's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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 cried. thank you tamsyn muir for the lesbian necromancers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Violence, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Violence

millah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

This book was nothing less than amazing. Why haven't I picked it up before? Well, I guess I didn't know I needed a sci-fi/ fantasy with necromancy, sword fights, sickening gore, terrifying horrors and deliciously dark humour. I did need it. 

The book is filled with important details, a wide range of characters, surprising twists, turns and hidden gems, and my ADHD brain forced me to to stop up at times and re-read certain parts, but that's not a complaint. I'm often an impatient reader, so the fact that I'm invested enough to go back and re-read earlier patagraphs, is probably one of the best compliments I can give an author.

What more can I say? I loved this book. So good. Now, I'm diving into the next one in the series. I have no idea what will happen next, but I am certain that it will hurt, confuse me and amaze me. Can't wait.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Bullying, Blood, and Body horror

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