Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin

16 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Gore, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Xenophobia, Death of parent, Grief, Body horror, Classism, Incest, Sexual content, Slavery, and Suicide

Minor: Pregnancy, Pedophilia, Rape, Infidelity, Child death, and Sexual assault

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

claireisagrisha's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.25

The gods and godlings were all nicer in this ones, so yay. I mean some bad evil tendencies but eh:/ 

I loved Sieh’s character development. 

Sieh and Deka were cute together. 
Shahar was rude for an understandable reason, but I’m glad her & her hubby worked out. I also like her new plan of who rules Sky, etc.

I would love to visit Echo. 

Ok but the ending and Sieh was possibly on his path to be a god... omg!!??

The little extra scene where Shiny & Oree meet up again. I could cry. They’re so cute. 

Why 4 not 5 stars? Wasn’t my favorite plot of the series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Incest and Adult/minor 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

nerdy_reader_9571's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, and Murder

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Torture, Rape, and Colonisation