Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

59 reviews

emmacartlidge's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Death, Misogyny, Murder, and War

Minor: Child death, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

magnan1mouse's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexism, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Forced institutionalization, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Rape, Police brutality, Death, Confinement, War, and Misogyny

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Murder, Grief, and Slavery

Minor: Child death, Medical trauma, Genocide, and Suicidal thoughts

yourbookishbff's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Classism, Suicidal thoughts, War, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Trafficking, Addiction, Violence, Child death, Misogyny, Torture, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Grief and Xenophobia

ajhling's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is not just gold tier, but platinum tier. It's such a great book that I have technically brought two copies of - the paperback (which I brought first) and the audio (which I brought so I can listen while driving or playing video games). I have all intentions of buying an E-Book version in the near future so I'll always have a copy on hand. 

This book has characters that are mostly grey at best, and down right evil at worst. Our protagonist is a ball of rage and is someone who would be seen as the villain in many works of fiction. I love it. Even her romantic partners are on the verge of being villains in other works of fiction. 

My favourite part besides the plot and our protagonist and her romantic partners, and the world as a whole?

The fact that there's no explicit sex scenes which have impregnated the publishing industry these days. Meaning you have a book that treats its readers like the older teens and adults that we are without having to worry about sex scenes because it's aimed towards an older teen, recent high school graduate age range, which apparently means sex most be included un the eyes of modern publishers.

I'm so hoping that the lack of explicit sex scenes continues onto the next book/s in the series (though even if they were present I'd still buy/read them anyway).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexism, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, and Misogyny

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Torture, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Genocide, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Rape, Homophobia, Colonisation, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Violence, Body shaming, Racism, and Alcohol

walkie_check's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny, Violence, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Murder, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: War, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Drug abuse, Body horror, Xenophobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Torture, Sexual content, Racism, Classism, and Child death

Minor: Rape, Ableism, Pedophilia, Chronic illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, and Slavery

katndrsn's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, and War

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

lilithall's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This book perfectly encapsulates the black and white sense of justice and right and wrong 19 year olds feel. It ignores the larger impacts and influences of the problems the protag wants to solve and rapidly spins into chaos in the name of solving the wrong root problem. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Murder, Addiction, Death, Sexual assault, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Body horror, Alcoholism, Torture, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and War

silentrequiem's review

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Death, War, Violence, Sexism, Misogyny, Torture, Child abuse, and Child death

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Classism, and Murder

kirsten_marie's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? No

3.25

If you're into mecha science fiction and feminism, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU.

For me, a person who's favorite genre is not science fiction with a lot of world building, the plot and all the fighting action scenes bored me to be honest. On the contrary, did I find the romance and exploration of themes such as feminism, sexuality, polygamy, gender roles etc. FAR more intreguing. However the romance and interpersonal conflicts and relationships wasn't as explored as I might would have hoped in a book almost the length of 400 pages. That is a main reason why this book dragged a little for me. In addition was the writing a little too dense in my opinion and the pacing a little off.

But still considering all of this, I need to state that this book is an impressive debut from a young person.
I will call this an original and severely interesting idea that could have been executed better.
Of course is the star rating also influenced by my personal taste in genre and theme. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Torture, Domestic abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Suicidal thoughts, War, Addiction, Alcoholism, Grief, Murder, Classism, Death, Alcohol, and Mental illness

Minor: Blood

dragonbornsandwaffles's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Death, Colonisation, Torture, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Sexism, Misogyny, Grief, Genocide, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Classism, War, and Violence

Moderate: Child death