Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

154 reviews

lujisa's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content

jmcampbell57's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Vomit, Grief, and Toxic friendship

n0elle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

5.0

So many emotions right now!! This book is an absolute masterpiece. 
Similar to the first part in the series, I spent about 60% of the book being confused but damn did I love it. And then things start to unravel and my jaw dropped so many times. 
All of the characters are incredibly well crafted and have so much depth and complexity. 
I’m continuously blown away by the author’s capability to give each character such a unique voice. 
All in all, it’s a wild ride filled with adventure, mystery, action, fighting, death and gore but als love that defies all rules and realms. 
I wish I could write a more eloquent review right now but my mind is still reeling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

ailsaod's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

 This book has got to have one of the most interesting approaches to storytelling I've seen in a while - though also the most confusing. I won't go into detail as I think it is best to go in blind but I will say that the devil is in the details!

In book one I didn't like Harrow at all and given what happened to Gideon at the end, this book wasn't a high priority. However I needed something to take on a trip and the ebook was free at the library so here we are. Despite going in not liking Harrow this book made me care for her a lot more and the new characters introduced are a fun mix of entertaining and concerning. I kind of wish I'd listened to the audiobook as I heard a clip of one of the scenes and it was the funniest thing!

I honestly don't know what else to say about this book without ruining the surprises but don't expect to understand half of what's going on - I have really enjoyed the ride so far but the reason this isn't five stars is that I am very very confused about practically everything. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

meat_muffin's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Colonisation

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Pregnancy

avava's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

shadereads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Genocide, Medical content, Medical trauma, Colonisation, and War

nittiotvaan's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Gun violence, Vomit, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

ivan_tw's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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? Yes

4.25

While "Gideon" was a fun and funny genre experiment, a sci-fi haunted house murder mystery, "Harrow" takes that basic setting and tweaks pretty much everything about it. It operates, at least at first, as a fun-house mirror version of "Gideon", where everything seems similar but just different enough to make you wonder what's going on. It plays with memory a lot, both for the characters and for you as a reader. And in those experiments, it shows just how strong of a writer Muir really is. I'm looking forward to Book 3.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Murder

tbd24's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.75

god i love middle books

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, and Injury/Injury detail