Reviews tagging 'Gore'

On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

5 reviews

clementine9's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• 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? No

5.0

This book led me to understand something about what I want from friends and partners. What family can be. What belief and trust in each other looks like. Artistically, it's a masterpiece. Every panel is a painting.

The art of the Staircase is especially beautiful. Every time a sunbeam shines through a window in this book, I want to be there to stand in it. I paused at the end of chapter 13 with the horrible premonition that someone (Elliot?) was going to die. I was almost right. I'm so glad I wasn't.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Gore, Transphobia, and Animal death

rubybastille's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense 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

A sweet and surreal coming-of-age story in which teenager Mia navigates boarding school, her first love, and a cool but dangerous job restoring buildings in space. (Why are there buildings in space? Shhh don’t worry about it, the spaceships look like fish, it’s fine) It got unexpectedly intense at the end and the pacing I think was off a little due to originating as a webcomic, but the art was beautiful and the characters (especially Mia’s school bully and her shipboard friend/coworker Jules) helped everything feel grounded.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Bullying, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Deadnaming

spooderman's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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

Graphic: Alcohol, Deadnaming, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Cursing, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Transphobia, and Confinement

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, Murder, and Vomit

Minor: Lesbophobia, War, Toxic friendship, and Ableism

sydneythewhale's review

adventurous emotional funny 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? No

5.0

Aug. 2021: 5⭐️

I want to cry this book is so beautiful I love it please read it

four of my favorite things about this book:
- the art in this is some of the most beautiful artwork I have ever seen and I want to put it all over my walls
- there are zero (0) men in this book, and I didn't notice until almost halfway through, and everything about that is wonderful to me
- Martha Wells' blurb on the back of this is probably my favorite blurb of all time and it definitely motivated me to pick this one up: "On a Sunbeam is a slow-burn romance and a found-family space opera adventure with an engaging cast of characters in a gloriously strange setting that is brilliantly original. I enjoyed every bit of it." incredible
- they fly fish-shaped ships through outer space, and one of the main characters wanted to name her ship "Fishy" but was overruled by her Greek scholar of a wife

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Content Warnings

Minor: Transphobia and Gore

daydreamermoonwalker's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Cursing, Death of parent, Gore, Medical content, Murder, and Transphobia