Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

110 reviews

samugranjo's review against another edition

adventurous reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

The focus of this book is desire, this desire obtains different shapes but usually there's a pursue of power involved. The author wrote about humans relationship with desire incredibly.
The characters are lovable at times but with most of them you are gonna feel annoyed too, feel like they have went too far. You both understand them and want to stop them.
The way the author writes about gender is outstanding, I was surprised by how much I related to this book as a genderqueer person. There's also some representation in the ace spectrum that I think was done well considering how little space it had.
Overall really recommend this read, and have to end this review by praising the writing in this novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body shaming, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, War, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Slavery, Torture, Alcohol, Body horror, Classism, Cursing, Genocide, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Infertility, and Vomit

caitlinbutcher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

I’m honestly speechless. This was one of the most elaborate, sweeping, and epic books I have ever read. 
I was hoping for a little bit more fantasy elements, but with how amazing this book was I honestly didn’t mind at all. 
This book has it all: politics, complex characters, character growth, sapphic romance, mystery, inspiration, beautiful action sequences, and plot twists. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, War, Body shaming, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Murder, Sexual content, Colonisation, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol and Misogyny

Minor: Cursing and Sexual violence

offbrandclubsoda's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, Violence, Transphobia, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, and Dysphoria

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexism, Xenophobia, War, Child abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Ableism, Alcohol, Death, Blood, Colonisation, and Misogyny

Minor: Gore, Slavery, Excrement, and Animal death

raen99's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Misogyny, Violence, Sexism, and War

Minor: Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, and Torture

ashurah's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Dysphoria, Sexual content, and Misogyny

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, and Animal death

valereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Ableism, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death of parent, and Misogyny

Moderate: Grief, Murder, Sexism, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Slavery

zombiezami's review against another edition

emotional tense

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

3.75

While I enjoyed the characters and the ways that the author explored gender expressions and identities in this book, the plot lost me several times. I'm learning it's hard for me to pay attention to narratives that revolve around war. I feel like I would have liked this more as a television show or movie. Some aspects were hard to visualize for me. Not sure if I'll read the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Ableism, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Sexual content, Trafficking, Violence, Body horror, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Excrement, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Murder, Outing, Toxic friendship, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Bullying, and Vomit

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful tense slow-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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Colonisation

Moderate: Gore, Sexual content, Child death, Death of parent, Cursing, Dysphoria, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Grief, and Death

Minor: Animal death, Excrement, Ableism, Bullying, and Vomit

serena_hien's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Sexual content, Blood, Death of parent, Misogyny, Violence, War, Ableism, Alcohol, Murder, Classism, Dysphoria, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Body horror and Torture

Minor: Child death

jourdanicus's review against another edition

adventurous 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

I really enjoyed this book and especially the character of Zhu Chongba. There was a little more more discussion of strategy/politics than usually interests me, and sometimes I got the characters confused (honestly because I'm white and not accustomed to Chinese names, so that's no fault of the author, the characters were all very distinct and well written). The moments of the characters' internal narrative and the interactions between them were compelling and believable. The queer subplot of this story is one of my favorite probably ever. The descriptions of the experience of attraction and dysphoria felt so representative and nuanced. I highly recommend the audio, the narrator was great and it was helpful to hear character and place names pronounced correctly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Dysphoria, War, and Death of parent