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hetzelah'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
Graphic: Mental illness, Vomit, Self harm, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Eating disorder
gayghostprince's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Gun violence, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Death, Violence, Suicide, Body horror, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Cursing, Child abuse, Mental illness, War, Vomit, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, Medical content, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Cancer, War, Chronic illness, and Suicidal thoughts
isleoflinds's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Blood, Mental illness, Death, Vomit, Eating disorder, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Self harm, Alcohol, Animal death, and Suicide
Minor: Abandonment and Pregnancy
cattails's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Gore, Emotional abuse, Blood, Body horror, Grief, Gaslighting, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Gaslighting, Murder, War, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, Alcohol, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Cannibalism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Xenophobia
Minor: Child death, Child abuse, and Infertility
sinceraly's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder
Moderate: Suicide
lolajh's review against another edition
- 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
“My soul is under seige, and I overwrote my real memories with a ghost-filled pocket dimension, which has not apparently been co-opted by some kind of poltergeist.”
It had bewildered her, back at Canaan House, how the whole of her always seemed to come back to Gideon. For one brief and beautiful space of time, she had welcomed it: that microcosm of eternity between forgiveness and the slow, uncomprehending agony of the fall. Gideon rolling up her shirt sleeves. Gideon dappled in shadow, breaking promises. One idiot with a sword and an asymmetrical smile had proved to be Harrow’s end: her apocalypse swifter than the death of the Emperor and the sun with him.
Graphic: Blood, Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Murder, Suicide, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicidal thoughts
cal_the_queer's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, and Gore
Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Self harm, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and War
Minor: Pregnancy, Terminal illness, and Cancer
book_club_cat's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Gore, Suicide, Murder, Miscarriage, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Child death, Cancer, Blood, Abortion, and Abandonment
Wtf did I just read!?!? I had no idea what was going on half the time and somehow in the last third of the book everything fell together in an implosion of plot twists. I think Muir is some kind of genius to write something so bizarre and dark yet funny and lovable all at the same time. I have never read anything like Gideon the Ninth or Harrow the Ninth and I still am at a loss on how I’m supposed to comprehend all that I just read!symbio's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
That being said, this is also one of the most confusing books I’ve ever read. The book is written in a mixture of second and third person, and contradicts events of the first book at many turns. This keeps you on your toes as you have to determine which unreliable narrator to trust.
I absolutely cannot do this book justice in a review. All I can say is that it’s a fever dream of a book and I mean that in the best way possible.
Graphic: Blood, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Gun violence
Minor: Death of parent, Miscarriage, and Suicide
This book has very frequent, visceral descriptions of parts of the body such as internal organs. The characters have magic that allows them to manipulate bodies and this is not shied away from. Probably not the best book for someone squeamish.kjoli's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, Vomit, and Violence
Moderate: Chronic illness and Terminal illness