Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg

5 reviews

prosenheim's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Murder, Transphobia, Dysphoria, Deadnaming, Misogyny, Confinement, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Self harm

indeedithappens's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Transphobia, Blood, Deadnaming, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Abandonment, Death, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Misogyny, Police brutality, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Animal death, Child abuse, Dysphoria, and Body horror

tangleroot_eli's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

This book is so lush, so full of sensory details that never bog it down. It's also worth noting that I'm usually a quiet reader, but I made a lot of "Mmm" and "Oh" and "Oooh!" sound while I read this, because it hit me in all the feels places. It's also full of older queer people, and I want so much of that in my fiction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Transphobia, Death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Murder, Domestic abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Torture

Minor: Fatphobia, Racism, and Vomit

Moderate ageism

maidinnah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

3.75

The Four Profound Weaves drops you into a world that normalizes queerness, polyamory, and genderfluidity amongst desert sands and nebulous magic systems, making an absolutely enchanting, intricate, and spellbinding tale. By having two elderly, transgender protagonists at the forefront, adventuring past their prime and asking questions about identity, transformation, and death, Lemberg expresses hope for different ways of being and inspires the courage to pursue them. 

Despite how much passion and love this book was written with, the vague, lyrical prose did make it challenging to follow along initially. Additionally, the alternating perspectives seemed unnecessary, given how similarly both protagonists sounded, which added to the confusion. The Birdverse world is worth feeling lost for a bit though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Torture, and Transphobia

Moderate: Sexism, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Child death

jjjreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Outing, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Abandonment, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Body horror, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture