Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Gideon la Nona by Tamsyn Muir

67 reviews

heirofchairs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

This is dead ass one of my favorite books of all time. God. It's so so so so so so good like this is a bad review but if the concept of "space lesbian necromancers" is enough to perk your interest trust me when I say it's Even Better than that premise suggests.

Also one of the fucking funniest books I've read, like it isn't a comedy specifically but Muir's wit is like if a classical author grew up on Tumblr memes (in a good way)

Anyways please fucking read this buy this please I'm dying 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Grief, Blood, Cancer, and Murder

Moderate: Abandonment and War

Minor: Child death, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

lotten4's review against another edition

dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

Giddeons sense of humor is very bad but it really grows on you. The first 200 pages are fine but the rest is what makes it good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Cannibalism, Mental illness, Cancer, and Chronic illness

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

stellar_etc's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Child death, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Abandonment

eib_21's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death, and Gore

Minor: Abandonment

the_sapphic_witch'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

This Book. THIS BOOK. I loved it. (if you couldn't tell), just read it. Please. The mystery and the world building, is incredible. It's worth the read (the representation is awesome btw).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Child death, Cursing, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Abandonment

traciereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cancer, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Cursing, Genocide, Violence, Child death, Chronic illness, Abandonment, and Murder

Minor: Terminal illness, Suicide, War, Rape, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

mcbenzie's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.75

This is like nothing I’ve ever read and I loved it. The universe is rich and dark; it’s wonderfully detailed but you learn it - or the relevant part of it - by living it alongside the cast, not through big info dumps, though I did enjoy the extra material at the end of this edition. There’s satisfying mystery, great jokes, development of character and relationships, both magical action and great swordplay, and a cast of major players I came to love. It’s also got a lot of necromantic body horror and it presents the queerness of its major characters as just who they are, though it’s not a romance, even as it has elements of regency honour and romantic ideals. The mash of styles encompasses Game of Thrones, Warhammer 40,000, Pride and Prejudice, Tank Girl and Gormenghast. Frankly it’s the best new thing I’ve read in ages, and I hope you love it as much as I did. Looking forward to the sequels!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Terminal illness, Abandonment, Cancer, and Vomit

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Cursing

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Gore, Blood, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Grief, Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Suicide, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Infertility

Minor: Alcohol, Pregnancy, and War

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

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