Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin

42 reviews

kingweirdo's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

5.0

I might have to come back and write more after some time to think about it, and I have to preface any review with HUGE TRIGGER WARNINGS for anti-trans violence and also very real trans trauma

but

This is one of the most touching, heartbreaking, brutal books I've ever read. I was so in love these characters, and even sickly attached to the villain narrator. Every chapter held a gut-punch, whether it was a horrible death, or act of violence, or a transphobic microaggression, or just the horrible things that the characters said to themselves while surviving the actual end of the civilized world.

And while this book is PACKED with blood and guts, bullets and knives, and breathtaking fights to the death, the world is so smartly built and the premise is SO wrought with symbolism. The entire conceit establishes a Binary sex problem and then immediately starts dismantling it and showing a dozen gaps in that easy essentialism. It asks us horrifying questions about identity and community, it leaves no population unscrutinized, it reminds us of how much there is to fear from our fellow humans, and it also gives us such remarkable tenderness.

I wept. I usually hate series, but I'm honestly begging the author to extend this universe and give us more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Dysphoria, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Deadnaming, Death, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Classism, Drug use, Eating disorder, Genocide, Grief, Medical trauma, Emotional abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Infertility, Slavery, Suicide, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Outing, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

Minor: Colonisation, Child death, Self harm, and Sexual harassment

lunmione's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Violence, Dysphoria, Gore, Hate crime, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Outing, Sexual violence, Slavery, and War

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, Pedophilia, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Antisemitism, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Self harm

Minor: Incest