Reviews tagging 'Blood'

A vida compartilhada em uma admirável órbita fechada by Becky Chambers

45 reviews

annamorgan27's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Slavery, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

scifi_rat's review against another edition

adventurous sad medium-paced

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

3.25

Plot: 3.5★
Prose: 3 ★
Pace: 4★
Concept/Execution: 4.5★/4★
Characters: 3★
Worldbuilding: 4.5★
Ending: 3.25★

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Gore, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Xenophobia, Excrement, Vomit, and Gaslighting

eni_iilorak's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Slavery, Abandonment, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Cursing, Gun violence, Infertility, Sexual content, and Colonisation

athryn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

A definite step up from the first book in this series. I really enjoyed the intertwining stories of

Sidra and Pepper

are very well done, exploring the world set up in the first book in different ways. The end was pretty touching to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, and Blood

Minor: Infertility and Dysphoria

maeverose's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

2.75

TL;DR: I was very bored. I liked the secondary pov more than Sidra’s. I don’t like how gender is handled. I’m realizing I’m not a huge fan of Becky Chamber’s writing style…

I love her other books, but so far this series is not working for me and I’m considering dnfing it. I was so bored. I didn’t really care for Sidra’s storyline at all, even though I typically love sentient AI stories. Jane’s pov was far more interesting, but I really didn’t like her narrative voice. Her constant categorizing of things into ‘good’ ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’, saying something is ‘real ___’ over and over, her angsty teen phase… It made complete sense for her character but it was overdone and got very annoying for me to read.

As well, it really bothers me how gender is handled in this series. Becky Chambers handles it much better in the Monk and Robot series (though it’s still not perfect). I think it was probably unintentional, but in this book and in small angry planet, she always strictly ties gender to biological sex. There’s an alien species that has four sexes, so they use different pronouns for each of those sexes, but none of the characters identify as trans, and when it comes to most species it’s treated as a given that they just identify as a man or woman based on their biological sex. They always rely on someone’s physical characteristics to judge what pronouns to use.

I wish I liked this series but I just don’t

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Eating disorder, Gore, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement

Graphic: dog death and eating of dogs (it’s mentioned very often) Moderate: explosion (that killed people) Minor: not an actual eating disorder but someone has to skip meals to survive and ends up extremely thin and malnourished.

dancers_and_dragons's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

Becky Chambers explores what it means to be a person in every which way throughout this poignant companion to The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. While initially I was disappointed in not getting to see what the main cast of the first novel were up to, I quickly was swept up in the new family being found in this novel. 

This book was heartfelt and emotional in the best of ways, from the interactions between characters to the descriptions of memories, to the heart-wrenching low moments of the two main characters when they hit their lowest points. Without giving anything away, it's the story of two who are more alike than they know trying to make it through their respective journeys and managing the hiccups that come up along the way. I deeply appreciated the world building, much as I did with Chambers' first book, and I can't wait to read the next one when I have a chance. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Drug use, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Cancer, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Medical content, Cannibalism, and War

solenekeleroux's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Blood, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

joey_schafer's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.75

This was really good, despite being so far my least favorite Becky Chambers book. A little more depressing than her other books, but really well-written still. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Xenophobia, and Grief

Minor: Blood

yuyine's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

Libration est un bijou. Un roman lumineux qui nous propose deux histoires d’adaptation, d’acceptation de soi-même et d’épanouissement avec de formidables réflexions pleines d’humanisme qui s’y intègre naturellement. Un de ces livres où on s’attache irrémédiablement aux personnages dont les destins nous touchent. Un coup de cœur évident. Lisez Becky Chambers! Il me tarde dorénavant qu’arrive le début de l’année 2023 pour le troisième tome en version collector. 

Critique complète sur yuyine.be!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Alcohol

ventenne's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

5.0

becky chambers does it once again! and this time, i was crying before the book even finished. lowkey preferred it to the long way to a small angry planet, which isn’t to say that isn’t also a phenomenal book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, and Blood

Moderate: Drug use, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, and Medical content

Minor: War