Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Así se pierde la guerra del tiempo by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

233 reviews

xxkatastrophe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Screaming, crying, throwing up, punch me in the face. I loved almost every second of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Torture, and War

evelynyle_88's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

A perfect sapphic sci-fi. And my love for both Red and Blue can be pictured here. Their way to always connect to each other make me smile while reading. Yeah, their separation as being from Agency and Garden are no joke. 

But, I just love their love. I think... it was pure. There will be war; still like Blue said. But, I believe that their loves and hearts... remain for each other. 

Thank you, Amal and Max for the most poetic sci-fi story. I love it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Torture, and War

spookily's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Torture, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, Vomit, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

sophiesometimesreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

Loved this book, even though it took me way too long to read for a sub 200-page novella. Damn you, reading slump! As a result, I really don't think I grasped everything I could've from this layered book, so I'll be looking to reread sometime in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Murder

Moderate: Torture

elspeth_h's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Torture

spadedigsbutts's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Very hard to talk about this book as it's essentially just two characters sending letters back and forth with deeply confusing but extremely poignant and beautiful poetic prose. Every sentence drips with yearning and drama . This is the sort of book you save lines from to read again and again. There's very few characters but our main couple have different flavors to them in their individual sections. You absolutely do feel how much they care for one another despite their antagonistic beginning. 

In all honesty I am not a huge poetry person and personally prefer more clear story elements, but I still enjoyed parts of this book. I don't believe I'd read it again, but I'd still reccomend it if you want a book that's just 100% desperate savage emotional vibes. The main characters are just 5th dimensional monster women full of violent yearning and that's pretty neat. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Torture, Violence, Suicide attempt, and War

Moderate: Death, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy

q_bert13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

An interestingly arranged story of correspondence between two alien agents of opposing forces. Not plot heavy at all- chapters include little increments of world building/action, and end with a letter addressed from one mc to the other. A quick, possibly at times confusing read- but overall super enjoyable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Stalking

Minor: Body shaming, Sexual content, and Colonisation

navayiota's review against another edition

adventurous challenging fast-paced

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

3.25

A pleasant read, although at times it felt like the authors added sci-fi mumbo jumbo to make the characters look more impressive than they were. The poetic writing got a bit tiring after a while but I did enjoy most of it separately. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Suicide, Torture, Stalking, and Alcohol

emohell's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.0

it was okay

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Torture, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

ktv's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I’m still confused after finishing it but I liked it. The ending brought this up to four stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and War

Moderate: Torture