Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis

35 reviews

zany25's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Fun, exciting, and definitely tinged with dramatic flair I had a great time with this book. It was  enjoyable and exciting in the slightly pulpy way that got me just anxious enough to propel me onwards once things get running. 

I’ve been a fan of the author’s video essays since I was a teenager and I think that lent some nostalgic voice to the narration for me and definitely earns me some bias I’ll have to admit to, but I enjoyed myself throughout. It’s very much like the kind of sci fi I enjoyed when I was younger but with a darker spice at moments. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident, Confinement, Genocide, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

Minor: Excrement and Vomit

Existentialist threats—cosmic scale, alien-on-alien racism and eugenics discussed

jayraytan's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Genocide

Moderate: Suicide and Blood

bi_n_large's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Genocide, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Misogyny, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Fatphobia and Racism

purplatypus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Violence

Moderate: Medical content, Xenophobia, Confinement, Kidnapping, Blood, Suicide, Death, Genocide, and Car accident

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Excrement, Addiction, and Slavery

dejahentendu's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

First contact! Conspiracies, government agents, conspiracy theories, warring alien factions - this book has them all in spades. And yet, the story almost seems languid for much of it. This was not a drawback for me. I liked the slow burn for much of the novel, with the reveals coming slowly. The main focus was on how completely disparate life forms and societies would interact. Where would we understand each other,  and where would we be horrified. Quite nicely done. 

The narrator was mostly quite good, but overdid it a few times. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Blood, and Genocide

Minor: Car accident and Vomit

beccaand's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Death and Genocide

Minor: Torture, Vomit, and Suicide

softanimal's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Medical content, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Genocide

tomas_lw's review against another edition

inspiring mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Genocide and Death

Minor: Body horror

madmadmaddymad's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-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

I couldn’t put it down! 

It’s remarkable how enthralling the plot and pace of this novel was. I’m satisfied with it as a stand alone, but am absolutely invested if Ellis decides to ever write a follow up, 

Cora was such a fun protagonist. She really embodied the adventure of first contact, and her view point as a fish-out-of-water, or maybe fish-adjacent-to-water, coming from a background of government distrust and frustration over conspiracy theories with her famous, estranged, Alex Jones-esque father. What an an excellent background detail and incredible character and worldbuilding. 

I also enjoyed the humor of this novel, and I thought the trope of humans being scary to the alien species was handled extremely well. Ampersand is hilarious and lovable and I was lo-key rooting for there to be an inter-galactic romance from the first moment

he snuck her into the Google campus and he was just so bad at communicating with humans that he gave Cora (and me!) second-hand embarrassment.

Powerful alien. Adorable doofus. 

Loved this book! 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Kidnapping, Genocide, and Suicide

mandkips's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Blood

Moderate: Genocide, Car accident, and Death

Minor: Suicide, Torture, and Vomit