Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill

2 reviews

mar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

The western/Mad Max vibe was fun, but the robots just feel... too human? like i straight up kept forgetting the main character (and every other character) was a robot. maybe I'm just spoiled by murderbot but like, there's ways to make robots relatable/emotional/fallible/etc without making them feel "basically human." i mean where's the CREATIVITY!!!

(also utterly baffled by the "voice pitch = gender" choice. Those Are Robots. why would it work like that. how would that work for anyone whose pronouns arent he or she)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Genocide, Murder, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Sexual content

Minor: Ableism

The "cannibalism" content warnings from other users are a bit misleading; there is no what you're likely to think of as "actual" cannibalism in the book. There is, however, a lot of robots killing each other to use the other's parts, which the characters refer to as cannibalism once or twice.

norwegianforestreader's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, War, Terminal illness, Slavery, Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Genocide, Death, Child death, and Cannibalism

Minor: Animal death