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zoeoz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Death, Violence, and Torture
Moderate: Classism and War
Minor: Sexism, Slavery, and Cannibalism
wyabook234's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Torture, Violence, Gore, and Murder
Moderate: Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Trafficking, Child death, and Domestic abuse
Minor: War, Misogyny, and Child abuse
klamstrakvr's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
I appreciate sticking to buildup work in this one, instead of attempting to make it a perfectly balanced book. It’s heavy in many senses but the prose is free from clumsiness and pompousness which both tend to plague the genre.
Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Blood, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, and Torture
Minor: War, Slavery, and Trafficking
bluejayreads's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Ableism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, Violence, Animal death, and Murder
Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Domestic abuse, Classism, Sexism, War, Torture, Vomit, and Gore
Minor: Excrement, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Body horror, Slavery, Cannibalism, and Rape
Animal injury, physical abuse (one scene, plus mentions of it happening in the past), unrealityluis_vieira's review
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Murder, Violence, Domestic abuse, Gore, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Blood, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Cursing, and Physical abuse
Moderate: Slavery, Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Classism, Xenophobia, Confinement, Grief, Racism, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Abandonment, Cannibalism, Kidnapping, Vomit, War, Dysphoria, Alcohol, Rape, and Sexual content
cooperqueen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, Torture, and War
Moderate: Child death
cecilie26's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
The author makes the characters thrilling and even though some of them isn’t the best of people you still like them very much. Though I have one character (Ferro) that I don’t like. I think it’s more writing of her than her, if that makes sense.
Or maybe I just isn’t a fan of characters that is that intent on violence as she is. And hates everyone. It makes kind of sense from her background, but still misses some context to why she is as she is, besides what we already have been told.
Love Logen and inquisitor Glokta. Otherwise everybody is very well written.
Graphic: Murder, War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Slavery
Minor: Cannibalism and Rape
isabellyboo's review
Wasn't enjoying it
Graphic: War, Sexism, Violence, and Torture
the_night_reader_'s review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, War, Sexism, Physical abuse, Chronic illness, Torture, Excrement, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Blood, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Violence, Slavery, Xenophobia, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Murder, and Medical trauma
samuelhayler's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Sexual assault, Slavery, War, Suicide, Torture, and Violence