Reviews tagging 'Death'

Les Oiseaux du temps by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

429 reviews

antijeffbozo_love2read's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I mostly wish it was longer!! But yeahh it wouldn't have really worked if it was. The world building is so intriguing I kinda wish we got to learn more as I was left with a few unanswered questions (major spoilers!!!!:)

(like why does Red from the future (the seeker) follow Red to places/times where letters weren't exchanged? Also how did Blue know Red's real name?

I was so invested and interested the whole time though it was a super fun read (although I definitely needed peace and quiet to be able to comprehend some of that language lol)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Murder, Grief, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Animal death, Colonisation, Death, Murder, Stalking, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Vomit

Nothing horribly gorey but there's still talk/moderate descriptions of lots of violence

abby_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-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

3.0

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I heard good things on about this book on social media. For me, this book was alright. I spent the first part confused. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Torture, Body horror, and Blood

Minor: Confinement, Murder, and Animal death

austenite93's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Torture, Violence, and Death

bootrat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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: War, Violence, and Death

avvamapia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.75

The language used in this book was beautiful, but I don't think I was fully invested. I love yearning but this book took it to the realm of toxicity which made it uncomfortable for me (I don't think that was intended)

Also?? Can we talk about the kiss. I get that it's poetic that way, but seriously. Kissing a five year old version of your lover on the mouth, couldn't red just do a blood pact? I don't think she was genuinely attracted to the five year old version but she was definitely thinking of blue during the kiss. Idk hella sus for me

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

woodglimm's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.75

i thought i would love this more, since it was praised so much. you get thrown right into the story without much explanation which made it a little hard for me to get into it. the second half got way better tho, it somehow caught me and i found joy in it (after a long break about 60 pages in lol). 
worth a read, even though probably not the easiest? also, it's only 200 pages ;)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Blood, Body horror, and Gore

sydneykaye's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Grief, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Stalking, Murder, and War

For body horror, I think that description is a little harsh for what is in the book,

there are parts where the "follower" or whatever they're called will like stick splinters in their hand, or when Red (I think it was her) modified her mechanical body (?).

It has been a little bit since I read this so idk. Nothing in the book is overly graphic.

justmys's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Murder, Death, Grief, Vomit, Blood, War, Genocide, and Gore

ernestoittig's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Body horror, Torture, and Blood

page_rva's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Suicide, Confinement, and Death