Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Mickey7 by Edward Ashton

12 reviews

araehop's review

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Colonisation, and Death

Minor: Vomit, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, and Sexual content

kellyofcali's review

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.0

A fun sci-fi read, I enjoyed the world and its history and the fact that while this had some small twists, it wasn't a full-on TWIST book but rather just a good story set within the confines and technology of another world. Excited to see the film!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, Death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Terminal illness, Body horror, Physical abuse, and Torture

Minor: Mental illness, Medical content, Blood, War, Sexual content, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

singalana's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

This book was a bit of a letdown. I want to like light sci-fi books so bad, but this just didn’t do it for me.

We follow a character called Mickey, who is an expendable at a newly established colony on a icy planet. That means that whenever something dangerous probably resulting in death needs to be doing, Mickey is the guy they sent to do it. Because every time Mickey dies, they make a new copy of him, with all the memories of the past Mickeys. Except this time things go wrong and now there are two Mickeys.

The book is told through Mickey’s POV, and few other notable characters are Mickey’s best friend (Berto), a woman he has a relationship with (Nasha) and the base’s commander Marshall. The characters lack depth, and even the relationships feel disingenuous. And it bothered me how Nasha’s and Mickey’s relationship played out in the book. Marshall is the most infuriating character of them all. 

Something about this book just felt off. The tone is light and bantery at the beginning, but then things take a slightly darker tone. At first I wanted to learn more about other colonies that failed and other expendables, but when the author delivered, it felt lukewarm at best. And in the beginning of the book we have a deus ex machina moment, and the ending is way too neat.

This book needed to pick out a tone and stick to it, give the characters more depth and explain the issues the characters are dealing with a little bit better. Now the plot feels paper thin. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Confinement, Abandonment, Death, Colonisation, Medical content, Sexual content, and Vomit

jj_tj's review

adventurous challenging funny medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Torture and Cannibalism

Minor: Sexual content and Suicide

samspencer23's review

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Cursing, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Eating disorder

sarah984's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

3.0

This book started out fun and the voice was great, but the focus lingered way too long on Mickey absolutely failing in every way to stay hidden and not long enough on the entire plot, which was basically shoved into the last 50 pages. The antagonists were interesting but barely described and the solution that works in the end is ridiculous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Religious bigotry, Death, and Colonisation

Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and War

Minor: Confinement, Blood, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Gun violence, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Cancer, Racism, Sexual content, Vomit, and Excrement

publius's review

adventurous funny fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content

lizacorn's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Suicide attempt, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Confinement, Genocide, Medical content, and Sexual content

carolined314's review

adventurous challenging dark funny tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Scalzi-esque male cis protagonist who signed up to die a lot, and some unexpected things occur - including aliens!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Terminal illness, Torture, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Genocide, Confinement, and Colonisation

juksu's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted tense 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? Yes

3.0

Figuring out the "twist" in the first 30 pages wasn't a bad thing, since Mickey7 has a lot of other stuff going on both in the present and in flashbacks. On the other hand, I feel like there was so much other neat worldbuilding and potential conflict that we could've explored more, like

the Natalist movement or the wider impacts of resource scarcity

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Instead, we got Mickey8 spending what felt like 50 pages asleep or hungry interspersed with commentary on profound topics like genocide, cloning, and identity... but because Mickey is just a guy, his ideas didn't break any new ground for me. I heard Mickey compared to The Martian's Mark Watney, which is true except that Mickey is marginally more likeable while Mark is more interesting to read for a puzzler like me. Otherwise, they're definitely both guys who put "I love sarcasm and dark humor" in their Tinder bios...

On top of Mickey's narration leaning cringy/tryhard more often than not, the pacing of this book wasn't very consistent. Felt like the resolution blew in out of nowhere, to say nothing of

Marshall just... changing his mind overnight? It just felt jarring.

The premise was so good, but this is one of those books that feels like it would've been more compelling if it had a different point of view. It's not strictly bad—quick, light read with a few "ohh" moments and even a couple actually good jokes. But if you're looking for more of the hard science or psychological drama of The Martian, this may miss the mark.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Sexual content, Genocide, Colonisation, and War