Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Translation State by Ann Leckie

42 reviews

eleanora's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Cannibalism, Body horror, Xenophobia, and Murder

Minor: Death and Police brutality

eidiya's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Cannibalism

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Confinement, Death, Racism, and Sexual assault

scifi_rat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Medical content, Grief, Xenophobia, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Gore, Kidnapping, and Death

Minor: Colonisation and Classism

trips's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring 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

 This would be a hard book to recommend to everyone, but I found myself really liking it!
It kinda feels like Twelve Angry Men mixed with Akira levels of body horror and although that is super weird and I found it fascinating. That also isn't a great comparison, so I guess its like, a very weird and cool episode of Star Trek (l0l).

This probably shouldn't have been my first foray into Leckie but I'm not mad it was! I found the world to be quite interesting and its approach to a non-gendered universe refreshing. That being said, this book is about 80% dialogue so if you're not a fan of books with heavy discussion and less action, this probably isn't for you. For me, I found it intriguing and thoughtful! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault

szuum's review

adventurous 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Cannibalism

lyraparledor's review against another edition

Squick squick squick squick squick eek

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Cannibalism, and Child death

quitegood's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

This is fast becoming my favourite sci-fi subgenre; Hard Sci-Fi croseed with Emotions. And likeable characters. It starts with humble beginning, crosses the stars and even leaves space itself. 
Things certainly start to wobble for the first half of the last quarter, but the rest of the book was so amazing that I can't mark it less that 5 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Body horror, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Xenophobia

Minor: Rape

keya_caivalur's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

If you're into politics, you'll like this book. I'm not into politics so I was not the intended audience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Blood, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Blood, Confinement, Deportation, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Body horror, Death, Dysphoria, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Classism, Gaslighting, Rape, and Abandonment

Minor: Trafficking, Transphobia, and War

crownoflaurel's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Outing, Xenophobia, Slavery, Sexual assault, and Cannibalism

hwesta's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This book is so weird and I love it so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Confinement

Minor: War, Police brutality, Death of parent, Child death, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Death

Lots of thoughts of dismemberment or mentions of it happening to human-like persons in the past