Reviews - No Gods, No Monsters

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No Gods, No Monsters

Cadwell Turnbull

3.6 AVERAGE

stargazerblue49's review against another edition

3.25

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

sarahbrown90's review

3.0

Great story but there are a multitude of storylines that don’t quite link together so it felt choppy.

rubus_berry's review against another edition

Really interesting ideas and I love some of Turnbull's views, but I'm bouncing hard off of the narrative style. The "third person but actually first person" is really confusing and gets hard to follow during moments of action. I might come back to it later but for now I gotta stop.

zfranks's review

4.0

Such a cool examination of societal themes through a fantastical lense. Can't wait to see what comes next.

alysa's review

4.0

oh my gawd what a wild ride

stacy11's review

4.0

adventurous 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: No

bmdreading7's review

4.0

It was fine.

onelittlearchive's review

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

antifa_baphomet's review

3.5

adventurous dark mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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terranstorm's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Incredibly well-written, fast-paced, a thrilling read with particularly strong character work imo. Also a fresh take imo on monsters-as-allegory for marginalized groups, handled with a heap of nuance and posing more questions than answers. Deals with abuse of authority/police violence, community self-censoring, generational trauma, intersectionality, progress and backlash, and lots more.

Not to mention the casual queer rep in this book is particularly good and wide-ranging (trans, ace, etc) and we love to see it.

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