Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

15 reviews

sophiesmallhands's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry and Suicide

Moderate: Sexism, War, Violence, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

Minor: Torture

bluberrybooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Misogyny, and War

Moderate: Alcohol, Violence, and Xenophobia

Minor: Sexual content and Torture

serena_hien's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Misogyny, Blood, Sexual content, Death, Xenophobia, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug use, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Homophobia

laurareads87's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

This is what I want in epic fantasy: a compelling setting, political intrigue, amazing world-building, meaningful diverse representation, and a plot I’m consistently excited about.  It’s also what I want in a middle book of a trilogy: self-contained enough to not feel like it ended too abruptly while still leaving me on the edge of my seat for the third book.  The ending — I won’t say much about it but suffice to say that I’m waiting extraordinarily impatiently for book three and am a little bit stressed about it!  The multiple perspectives — and there are a *lot* of them — feel distinctive and are used to great effect in developing the characters and their motivations, and the religious and magical elements that were intriguing in the first book are further elaborated here beautifully.  One of the absolute best fantasy series happening right now — highly, highly recommend.

Thank you to NetGalley and Orbit Books for providing an ARC in exchange for this review.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Blood, Death, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Xenophobia, Sexism, Misogyny, Grief, Suicide, and Torture

Minor: Animal death

ktkeps's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexism, and War