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tacochelle's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Death, and Murder
Minor: Trafficking and War
brogan7's review
3.5
But then, the world De Bodard creates is so strange and so without earth references, that it's quite difficult to follow, where are they going? Why are they going there?
De Bodard has a clear vision of this alternate world, and its rules and choices, it's only unfortunate she wasn't able to communicate it more clearly.
The mindship is already a thing to get your mind around, but then the mindship keeps casting itself as an avatar (but also only sometimes)--that's when it gets really trippy in terms of trying to imagine where the characters are in the story. Is the ship a ship? Is the ship a ship projecting itself as a smaller machine to meet with its clients? Where is the ship while the avatar is meeting? When the ship travels, what is the dock it is leaving from? What does it actually look like? Now she tells us the ship is in deep space. What is that, beyond this Alice-in-Wonderland feeling of swelling and shrinking? The ship gets nauseous. I have to wonder: do ships get nauseous? Is that a thing?
By this time, I'm not in the story anymore.
Graphic: Drug use
Moderate: Death and Mental illness
TW: traumaidun_aurora's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Child abuse, and Death
szuum's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Drug use and Death
jessie_h's review
4.0
Moderate: Abandonment, Drug use, Murder, and War
mar's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Addiction and Drug use
Minor: Trafficking, War, and Suicidal thoughts
purplepenning's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death
Moderate: Medical trauma
Minor: Trafficking and Suicidal thoughts
kaabtik's review
- 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
Seeing that it's part of a bigger universe, I'll be checking the rest out soon.
Moderate: Drug use and Death
Minor: Medical trauma and War
kazik's review
- 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
4.0
Moderate: Addiction, Religious bigotry, Panic attacks/disorders, and Drug use
mandkips's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Death, Drug use, and Drug abuse