Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Old Man's War by John Scalzi

18 reviews

gashrot's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

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

3.75

Space opera sympathique, mais très léger dans son traitement de plusieurs questions éthiques soulevé par le livre alors que certaines sont au centre de l'intrigue

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, and War

Moderate: Gore and Sexual content

Minor: Infidelity

marktheshark's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Violence, Grief, and War

witcheep's review against another edition

Part 1 is interesting with the premise of transferring an old person's conciousness into a younger body in order to live the rest of their years young, fighting in a galactic interspecies war. I'm more interested in these scifi aging processess than the war.

However, there are underlying racists themes and very clear antagonizing of the opponent, altough the sole reason for war seems to be to fight for habitable territory on planets all over the space, even though humans like to stay mostly on planet Earth.

The second part begins with an army initiation into the warfare, and I lost interest by the first introductory sequence. Strict hierarchy and very authoritarian superiors seem to make me lose my interest; the scifi aspects are put on the back burner to dive deeper into the war aspect of the story. The scale of these two subjects just tipped so that the plot doesn't interest me enough to continue further.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Medical content, and War

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

This is my second book by John Scalzi and I’m beginning to think that they are not the author for me.  Their humor makes me cringe in secondhand embarrassment and I’m pretty sure it is not meant to have that effect.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Islamophobia, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

katy_bee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative tense fast-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? No

4.75

Scalzi has become one of my go-to authors for good easy reads. This one has echoes of the Forever War and there's a fair amount of the inhumanity of war but it's lighter in tone with more humour. I just enjoy being along for the ride

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism, Sexual content, and Grief

eliaa's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content and Cannibalism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Cancer, Infidelity, and Pandemic/Epidemic

aely's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content and Grief

captainminnow's review against another edition

dark lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

babudarabu's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and War

Moderate: Genocide, Gore, Racism, Sexual content, and Medical content

Minor: Homophobia, Racial slurs, Blood, and Colonisation

iono's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide, Xenophobia, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Body horror, Cancer, Infertility, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual content, and Alcohol