Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

56 reviews

voidboi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective 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

4.5

that was delightful and also gave me a migraine 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Eating disorder, Grief, Mental illness, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, and War

Minor: Medical content, Vomit, Colonisation, Genocide, and Toxic friendship

abbyschalupa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, Body horror, Violence, Grief, Gore, Eating disorder, Genocide, Blood, Cursing, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Colonisation, and Confinement

daydreamermoonwalker's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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

5.0

I haven't gathered all my thoughts together yet, so I'll leave a more detailed review later, but I absolutely loved it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Grief, Violence, Terminal illness, Child death, Colonisation, Gun violence, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, and Incest

Note on the terminal illness:

the main character is dying over the course of the story, but it's not from a real world illness. It's more supernatural in nature, but I thought I'd mention it just in case. A minor character also is very ill throughout the story, but again, it's supernatural in nature.

Child death:

the character who dies isn't technically a child, but their memory is wiped so they behave and think like one. So tagged it just in case.

Incest: it is implied by the way two characters interact with each other, but it is not explicitly in the text or at all graphic.

displacedcactus's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious 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

Look, this is the third book in a four book series. You're either going to read it because you're following the series, or you won't because you're not. This one was less weird than Harrow the Ninth but probably more weird than Gideon the Ninth. Fills in a lot of the backstory with WTF is going on with the setting. Importantly

the dog is fine

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Body horror, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Cursing

bfab's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Cursing, Medical content, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Eating disorder

amylynnknitsreads's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious 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

4.25

I knew that this would be a cliffhanger but was much less annoyed by it than I thought. 
I can't say I enjoyed this one as much as Gideon the Ninth, but I think I enjoyed it more than Harrow the Ninth.

I vaguely wish I'd gone and re-listened to the first two, but I don't think I missed much by not going back to re-listen. I likely will for Alecto the Ninth.

I did appreciate that there was more world building/filling in going on in this one, though I'm relatively tired of the flipping back and forth between plot lines that's been the style of the last two books. That may be an effect of listening to the book rather than reading.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, War, Death, Suicide, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, and Blood

theatrealpaca's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

Minor: Eating disorder, Body horror, Torture, Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Cannibalism, Blood, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Grief, Cursing, and Chronic illness

nicnevin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense 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? Yes

5.0

I loved this book and Nona loves me.

I pulled the book apart and devoured it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Body horror, Confinement, Death of parent, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Cancer, Classism, Colonisation, Death, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Medical content, Murder, Police brutality, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, Drug use, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, War, Deadnaming, Dementia, Gore, Grief, Ableism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Suicide, Violence, Addiction, Blood, Cannibalism, Car accident, Chronic illness, and Suicide attempt

jjjreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Murder, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Car accident, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Police brutality, Self harm, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Deadnaming, Excrement, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death of parent, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Hate crime, and Vomit

Minor: Abortion, Car accident, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Xenophobia

relin's review

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Medical content, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Cursing, Violence, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Alcohol, Genocide, War, Police brutality, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical trauma, Self harm, Outing, Fire/Fire injury, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Cannibalism