Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Gideon la Nona by Tamsyn Muir

67 reviews

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

emilyplun's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

4.75

A murder mystery with necromancers and swords, and the main character is hilarious. Extremely good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Murder, Violence, Body horror, Death, Medical content, Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Abandonment, Child death, and Religious bigotry

jmcordero's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Death of parent, Blood, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Abandonment, Torture, Terminal illness, Murder, Emotional abuse, Cursing, Chronic illness, and Bullying

Minor: Sexual content, Xenophobia, Vomit, Self harm, and Grief

jas_kv's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Abandonment, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Torture

valpuri's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Violence, Terminal illness, Murder, Medical content, Gore, Death of parent, Cursing, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Abandonment, Cancer, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Toxic friendship, and Vomit

illuminatedspace's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Honestly one of the best books I've ever read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Body horror, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Grief, and Self harm

caitsidhe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

This was one of those 'read it until your body forces you to stop' books. Those 'are you coming to bed?' books.  Probably one of the best books I've read in the last few years. I laughed, I cried, I cringed at the horrifying necromantic abomininations.

The writing is a perfect blend of descriptive and funny. Gideon is a wonderful character who I was glad to spend so much time with. The world building was expertly done and never once infodumped on me. I was lost in this book and the characters.

This book deserves wild success and I was so glad I'd bought Harrow the Ninth at the same time so I could start it immediately.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Bullying, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Abandonment, Cancer, Chronic illness, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, and Cannibalism