Reviews tagging 'War'

The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin

8 reviews

barda's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Incest, and Sexual content

Moderate: Pedophilia, Death, Rape, War, Murder, Blood, Slavery, Sexual violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcohol

cleot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Pedophilia, Slavery, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Genocide, Adult/minor relationship, and Incest

risaleel's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Dysphoria, Sexual content, and Classism

Moderate: Blood, Death, Murder, Colonisation, Incest, Rape, Sexual harassment, and Slavery

carolined314's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Child abuse, Sexual violence, War, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Sexual assault, Genocide, Sexual content, and Slavery

chaoticnostalgia's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Murder, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War, Incest, Cursing, Forced institutionalization, Slavery, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, and Pregnancy

laguerrelewis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

This book is not a perfect end to the trilogy, and in that sense is it the best suit for this story. This is a series about the folly of gods and humanity and imperfection and mistakes and the beauty of it all—why would it end with a neat little bow? If you’ve gotten this far, you need little persuasion to continue reading, but Jemisin makes it worth your while with a character study that reveals multitudes about this lovely world she’s made.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Body horror, Death, Grief, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, War, Incest, and Murder

Minor: Excrement and Rape

queenie_ofthe_void's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective slow-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

This book is my least favorite of the trilogy, but that doesn't mean it still wasn't good. It was a fitting end for Sieh and everything he's longed for since he first fell in love with Yeine. 

Coming to grips with mortality and the fickleness of humanity was heart wrenching. Every time Yeine, Naha, and eventually Tempa came to check on him wrecked me emotionally. Definitely had to take breaks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, War, Violence, and Toxic relationship

seanml's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

I have finally reached the end of the journey. When starting the trilogy I did not anticipate its meandering plot, spotty worldbuilding, deux ex machinas, or plot twists that have no weight. For a series that involves a realm called the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, I was surprised to find that only a handful of these kingdoms came up. Now, the series isn’t terrible by any means; there are a good number of fun ideas. These are just vastly outnumbered by strange, meandering, underwhelming choices in plot. I’m sure this series resonates perfectly with some people, but I am not one of them.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Grief, Incest, Murder, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

Minor: Cannibalism, Infidelity, and Pregnancy