Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

72 reviews

mythicsage's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Transphobia, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

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I really loved this epic fantasy packed full of earth-based powers, found family, inclusive character design, and tragedy. The 3-character style worked so well. This starts slow, as many epic fantasy do, and has such an interesting payoff as character stories come together.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Animal death

Police brutality, destroyed homelands/refugee experience

madamenovelist's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

mrsjodihunter's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Cursing

f18's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Slavery, Blood, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Classism

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Rape, Sexual content, Transphobia, Vomit, Cannibalism, Alcohol

unwanted pregnancy

emeraldrina's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark 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

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Wow this book was incredibly put together. The way the story unfolds and all comes together at the end is so detailed and intricate and glorious. The world is dark and fascinating and a joy to discover as you read. I was very skeptical about the 2nd person POV at first but I’m so glad I kept reading! The writing is amazing, I love the style and humor and even the little ways Jemisin uses formatting to shape the tone of characters’ thoughts. And I love Syenite so much!! She’s such a badass. I can’t wait to continue the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Cursing, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Pregnancy

delphinaris's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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what the fuck, like actually. There's genuinely so many different moving pieces to this book. I have so many questions, just like, wow. I fucking called it that all POVs were the same person, I knew it. Also Syenite pissed me off so much, like it was just one stupid move after the other. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

This book is majorly fucked up; especially the scenes in the Fulcrum. Read at your own risk.

zombiezami's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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I was very confused in the beginning, and I’d say I didn’t quite understand what was going on until about 75 percent of the way through the book, but by the end I was very invested. N.K. Jemisin is a genius

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Hate crime, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Vomit, Stalking, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Cannibalism

kemrick19's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Abandonment

Moderate: Ableism, Gore, Physical abuse, Murder, Classism

Minor: Cursing, Pedophilia, Sexism, Transphobia, Vomit, Pregnancy, War, Pandemic/Epidemic

j_2112's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 30%

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Bad writing, didn't enjoy plot or ideas. Not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Violence

Moderate: Cursing