Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

36 reviews

bi_blue's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Death, Blood, Violence, Vomit, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Moderate: Genocide, Self harm, and Child abuse

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Terminal illness

roomnosenpai's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book is weird and very confusing at times.  Be warned most of this book is written in second person POV which takes getting used to.  I found this book a much slower read than the first book.  Things eventually speed up at the end but it takes quite a while to get there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Physical abuse

Minor: Chronic illness and Terminal illness

multiplyoctopi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Death, Blood, Grief, Mental illness, and Vomit

Minor: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, and Medical content

lotus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Medical trauma, and Vomit

toopunkrockforshul's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

What an amazing book. I enjoyed the first in the series but this book was fantastic from beginning to end and honestly made the first book more amazing in retrospect. So excited for the 3rd book when it comes out, this world is so intriguing and I just want to know everything about it. It's really a story and world you can dig you teeth into and get lost in, and manages to mix fantasy and magic with scifi in a unique and compelling way. Definitely will be rereading 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

This book deals with a lot of dark themes and death and body horror, due to the nature of its focus on necromancy. Lots of complicated and possibly manipulative and toxic relationships

troisha's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Death

Minor: Child death, Chronic illness, Grief, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Vomit