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libraryghost's review
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Sexism, Sexual harassment, Deadnaming, and War
Minor: Transphobia
aardwyrm's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Death, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Violence, War, Colonisation, Sexual harassment, Deadnaming, and Gun violence
lacee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Death, Violence, and Deadnaming
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Genocide, Sexual content, Blood, and War
house_of_hannah's review
- 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
2.5
This is essentially a snippet into the lives of a group of "bandits". Not much happens, but there is a lot of talk about the religious order of the same name as the title. This mostly felt like a few chapters taken out of a larger story than it's own contained one; it feels unfinished.
The ending felt like it came out of nowhere. (If you've read it you'll know what exactly I'm referring to) There just wasn't a good lead up to that moment, and the character's reactions felt very anime.
The representation in this novella is great, but unfortunately everything around that just didn't hit the mark for me, and this story was just ok in the end.
Graphic: Deadnaming and Death
Moderate: War
adhdru's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
Graphic: Death, Deadnaming, Sexual harassment, and Violence
Moderate: Sexism and Misogyny
Minor: Genocide and War
smg's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
3.0
Minor: Deadnaming
lilifane's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Graphic: War, Violence, Death, and Deadnaming
bluejayreads's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
- The jungles that they keep walking through, as there are a lot more jungles in Malaysia than China.
- The “secret war” (obviously guerrilla warfare now that I have the context) that is mentioned but never encountered.
- The soldiers who are a different ethnicity from the native people and do things like destroy temples and genocide people.
- The “bandits” who are native people and part of the secret war by hiding in the jungles and attacking the soldiers.
I wish this book had been longer. With this context, there is so much that could have been done with the story that just didn’t happen. I didn’t even put together that there was a guerilla war going on in the background, let alone that this was a people fighting for their independence from a colonial power. Heck, I didn’t even work out that this was set in Southeast Asia and not some fantasy version of China. The limited length of this story did it a disservice, and there could have been so much more depth and interest to this story if it had been allowed to expand beyond sketches of characters on a simple delivery quest. I liked the story for itself, but now that I have the context and see what it could have been, I find myself disappointed by the lost potential.
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, and Death
Moderate: Blood and Deadnaming
Minor: War, Genocide, and Sexual harassment
caterwaul's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Minor: Deadnaming and War
Religious persecution by the governmentgriffinthief's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Moderate: Death
Minor: Child death, Deadnaming, and Sexual violence