Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg

4 reviews

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

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

drp_moonlight's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

The Four Profound Weaves follows two transgender elders who must learn to weave from Death. I enjoyed the message and the story, but I couldn't help to feel that this was part of a series (which it is). I felt like I was too quickly dropped into an unfamiliar world with a complicated mythology that I couldn't really grasp onto until the very end. Overall a quick and emotional read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, and Transphobia

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

The book features death and talk of death heavily.