Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Зов костяных кораблей by RJ Barker

4 reviews

leafandlore's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: War, Medical trauma, Body horror, Violence, and Trafficking

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

daffodilcherry's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

5.0

Absolutely stunning sequel, ramped up the action and relationships from book one. Love love loved this.

This book takes the conclusions from book two and ramps up the action and stakes. I loved the additional worldbuilding and the few chapters that switch POV to different crew members. There are some character deaths in this book that are shocking without being done purely for shock value. 


Wheelhouses: high seas adventure, badass older female character, the author retconning gay subtext to text, higher stakes, smaller adventures leading to a larger plot, everything about the gulliame.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Slavery, and War

saltycoffee's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Classism, Death, Medical trauma, Slavery, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Medical content, Trafficking, Animal death, Murder, Violence, Body horror, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, War, Child death, and Chronic illness

wanderonwards's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad slow-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? Yes

3.0

This wasn't as good as the first book for me, mostly because of the gratuitous number of deaths (many of which I felt were unnecessary) and frustratingly dense characters (I connected so many more things well before the characters themselves, which isn't necessarily bad, but I didn't feel so disappointed with character decisions in the first book). I hope this trilogy finds its stride again for the third book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Confinement, War, Gore, Murder, Trafficking, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Classism, Death, Medical content, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Grief, and Medical trauma