Reviews tagging 'Death'

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

343 reviews

cinnamonandpancakes's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

The second person pov was used so well! I often find second person tedious and kinda weird but this was great!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Murder, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, and War

emilyplun's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

Minor: Sexual content

angstifies's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.75

this whole series is absolutely brilliant. no idea how the author managed to plan all of THIS but consider me impressed. 
i saw someone descrive this book as “an acid trip written in second person” and i can’t help but agree, loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Cannibalism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

fjalar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad slow-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

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

Moderate: Chronic illness, Gaslighting, and Colonisation

Minor: Sexual content

flyintothestorm's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Child death

marinamelanidis's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

relin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

I still am untangling so much of what happened. What a ride. Plan to reread because there are so many details that you are bombarded with that would have answers, but only if you knew which questions to ask.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Child death, Genocide, Cannibalism, and Suicide attempt

waqupi's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• 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

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

maralaene's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

This book….
The narrative tense, the character names, the absolute chaos and intentional confusion aimed at the reader. It’s like nothing I’ve ever read before. And I absolutely loved it. 

And that ending! I’m so excited and yet still so lost at the same time. I have loved this series so far. It’s like nothing I’ve ever read. It is plot driven to a fault and with so much mystery around even our main character. It questioned everything I thought I already knew and expected to learn in a sequel novel. I cannot wait for Nona and Alecto. Easily jumped to one of my favorite series, but really who knows why. Enter at your own risk and prepare to be utterly at a loss. 

As a side note. While I absolutely love Moira Quirk as the narrator of this series, I think this is one of those books that may be better read than listened simply to keep your mind from wandering as you read! But I enjoyed the audiobook none the less! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

lolo626's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

Confusing as balls

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Eating disorder and Cannibalism