Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

4 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

2.0

can't tell if I just have no brain power at the moment or if the worldbuilding and plot legitimately are never explained in a way that makes sense. want to maybe give it another shot in the future to see if my feelings change, but for now, just kind of impenetrable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Death, Murder, Gore, and War

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Genocide, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Rape

Minor: Child death, Torture, Sexual content, Suicide, Ableism, Transphobia, and Dysphoria

lucystolethesky's review against another edition

challenging tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Murder, Religious bigotry, Genocide, Sexual assault, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Suicide, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

cinnamonandpancakes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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? Yes

4.75

This book!!! The only reason I didn't give it a full 5 stars is that some points I found were unnecessarily slow, but for the most part this book was brilliant in worldbuilding and character work.

This is very much a 'first of a trilogy' plot, with an overarching plot laid wide across the end but in such a satisfying way I can't help but adore it.

Cheris and Jedao are tricky characters but they were very compelling all the way through, even when I thought one or both of them were evil!

This is not a book to read for a simple story of good and evil, many awful things are caused by protagonist and antagonist aligned characters, but it is excellently constructed and a joy to watch all the moving parts fall into place.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, Gore, War, Death, Murder, and Rape

Minor: Suicide

annalisaely's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-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

5.0

Awesome world building, love the galactic politics, adore the characters, both Cheris and Jedao are fascinating and entirely lovable while still being complicated and flawed. Also very cool space opera elements with battles and cool ships. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Genocide, Death, Grief, Murder, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence