Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

31 reviews

mobymaize's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Holy shit this book rocks my socks off. I genuinely love sci-fi that doesn’t need need a complete explanation or description of super complicated politics. I just need my time & space lesbians and I’m happy :)

Also romance through letters and missives is incredible. Especially when it’s queer. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Blood, Murder, Torture, War, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Grief, Death, and Medical content

mir_frog73's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The first half was kinda confusing, but everything comes together in the end and I never even thought of the plot twists. The writing was beautiful but sometimes hard to understand.

It was giving inception

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Body horror, Stalking, Gore, Suicide attempt, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Grief, Murder, Violence, and War

spookily's review

adventurous challenging dark hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Violence, Grief, War, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, Confinement, Murder, Torture, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Gun violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Cursing, Abandonment, Gaslighting, and Child death

emohell's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective 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

3.0

it was okay

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, War, Death, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Cursing, Vomit, Torture, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Animal death

msradiosilence's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, War, Blood, Colonisation, Confinement, Genocide, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Violence

i_write_on_occasion's review against another edition

challenging reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Quite disappointing. I really enjoyed the writing, worldbuilding, and concept but struggled to care about the characters and their relationship

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Death, Violence, and War

Minor: Cursing and Sexual content

fromthefoxhole's review

challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Okay let me break this review down into two parts.

1. This book is dense, the world building is abstract and vague, and you get next to 0 answers about any of those questions. I literally texted a friend of mine like "am I too stupid for this book??" because for the first third I felt like I was lost in the sauce.
2. If/when it clicks for you, this book is phenomenal.  All of the world questions and googling the references they make kind of fall away, revealing the beating heart within. 

More than anything, it's a love story. The lengths to which Blue and Red will go for one another know few boundaries. 

I have a lot of feelings so I might edit and add more later lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Murder, Body horror, Violence, Suicide attempt, War, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Cursing

shelvesofivy's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Cursing

Moderate: War and Death

gabbygarcia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Cursing, Violence, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

carbinara's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Hunger is discussed so often in this book, mostly as a metaphor for wanting. In sticking with this theme, I’d describe the first 100 pages or so of this book to be like a charcuterie board- decadent, but disjointed. The language is beautiful and it allows for development of both he world and the relationship between our characters. However, I found myself wondering if it was only going to be a catalogue of one thwarting the other and leaving a letter in their wake. I knew the plot had to progress but I wasn’t sure how.

Then, the last half of the book would be either a wine or a stew. I’ll say wine, since stew doesn’t really go with charcuterie. Its fast and its ripe with plot, and we finally get both to the height of the plot and the culmination of our characters relationship. It’s still decadent, with the poetic nature of the book shining through, but this is where everything happens. I can’t say I understand it, which I suppose is why I describe it as wine. There’s still a wealth of flavours, of themes and storylines, yet I can’t fully untangle them from one another to figure what’s going on. Still, I get a pretty good idea of the whole picture.

It’s worth adding that I hate wine, I’ve always found it too sour, and I worried the ending would fund itself the same way, especially given the title and the references to Romeo and Juliet. To be honest, I would’ve accepted an ending as such, but I’m glad things turned around.

Overall, I really enjoyed and only docked half a point for the slow start. It makes sense and it worked out in the end, I’m just a bit impatient :) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Grief, Murder, Genocide, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death, War, Body horror, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore