Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Ich bin Gideon by Tamsyn Muir

18 reviews

flyintothestorm's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Body horror

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

orlagal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and War

storykath's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Gotta say, I was very confused a lot of the time. I appreciated that there was no clunky exposition sections, but I did feel thrown into the deep end in terms of the universe and magic system and everything. As such, I didn't always fully understand why everything happened the way it happened (especially towards the end) but overall I could still appreciate what was going on.

Gideon was a fantastic narrator, funny and flawed and truly unique. She's chaotic and hilarious!

This book took me a while to get through, and I think that's partly due to my brain being picky about reading, but also partly because of how gory and tense things got in the story. I couldn't always stomach it for multiple chapters at a time. Between the injuries and the sometimes-dense plot, this was a book I had to tackle in smallish chunks. That being said, I'm starting the sequel right away so I don't forget any important plot points.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Cannibalism, Child abuse, Genocide, Murder, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Terminal illness, and Vomit

Minor: Death of parent, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

annapox's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Torture, Vomit, Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Medical content, and Cursing

Moderate: Cannibalism, Blood, Grief, and Self harm

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Confinement, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, War, Child death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Slavery

lotten4's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

Giddeons sense of humor is very bad but it really grows on you. The first 200 pages are fine but the rest is what makes it good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Gore, Murder, Violence, and Suicide

Moderate: Cannibalism, Mental illness, Cancer, and Chronic illness

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

saltylane's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I loved listening to the audiobook version of this book! The mysteries were dark and intense, and the action would keep you on the edge of your metaphorical seat. The writing style is very fitting to the characters and at times added a little laugh when it got really dire. The ending was amazing and emotional, and I’m already eager to read the sequel!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Death, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Cursing and Death of parent

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Vomit, Suicide, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

mairallen1114's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-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? No

5.0

fucking superb. i read it twice back-to-back because of all the excellent foreshadowing. it's full of characters you will love and events you'll hate and when you finish you will be screaming to the sky because literally w h a t. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Terminal illness

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Eating disorder, and Fire/Fire injury

buckle the fuck up homies, theres a lot of content warnings. graphic warnings will not be elaborated on because they are just broad themes of the book (it's about necromancy, you kind of sign up for this). child abuse listed for

the abhorrent treatment of gideon and harrowhark

. death of parent for

harrows shitty parents committing suicide, brought up a few times

. self harm listed because necromancers will sometimes pull their own organic material (hair, teeth, nails) to use for necromantic acts, not used in terms of mental illness or self punishment. brief cancer mention when MAJOR SPOILER

palamedes gives a character "turbo cancer"

. child death listed for MAJOR SPOILER

we learn harrow was born from the deaths of 200 ninth house children between ages 1-18, also Jeannemary and Isaac die and are only teenagers

. eating disorder listed because harrow does not eat as well and as often as she should, causing her to pass out and such. fire/fire injury listed for

when they discover pro's remains as well as someone else's in the incinerator

msradiosilence's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Infertility, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Murder, Toxic friendship, Vomit, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Bullying, Cursing, Gore, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Suicide, and War