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ana_bane's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Body horror, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Murder, Rape, and Trafficking
thepermageek's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Torture, Blood, and Violence
Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Trafficking
thelizzielibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Excrement, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Addiction, Antisemitism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, and War
auberginehayz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
I went for 3.5 stars but it was almost a 4! I would recommend it strongly but with caveats because of graphic/disturbing content.
The first two thirds of the book were amazing. Such a good concept, compelling and with scenes that were gripping and really resonated. Then it went chaotic and grim in a way that I couldn't tell if was poor pacing or meant to have that shocking and confusing effect on the reader. Then it wrapped it up nicely at the end in a reasonably satisfying, if pessimistic, way. The grim stuff was depressing because I wanted to root for some of the characters, I didn't want so many of them to end up behaving terribly. But maybe humanity would be that terrible.
Moderate: Death, Sexual violence, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Child abuse, Rape, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Violence, and War
puffinnaomi's review against another edition
Graphic: Body horror
wanderinginthewoods's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
Graphic: Child death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual harassment, Torture, Death, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Slavery
scruffie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
That being said, I didn't appreciate the book's binary view on gender, the conflation of sex and gender, and the complete disregard for the multitude of gender identities; in this book "male" equals "man", "female" equals "woman", and that's all there is to it. Also, I had hoped that the book will have a more positive stance towards society; I've had my fill of the whoever-has-the-bigger-stick-must-oppress-whoever-has-the-smaller-stick point of view. That's alright though, I think the author delivered the narrative they chose pretty successfully.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, War, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Drug use, Physical abuse, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Violence
Moderate: Police brutality
Minor: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Vomit, Excrement, and Trafficking
sinsku's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Bad: very transphobic with the "it's biological" idea of the power. At least it's not discussed in the book at all beyond that. So. Plus didn't care much about the fact that the book seemed to tell the tale of "if women have power they abuse it and there's nothing you can do about it". A rather boring take on it to be honest.
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Blood, Death, Rape, Torture, Violence, War, Body horror, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence
sallytiffany's review against another edition
- 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? No
3.0
Graphic: Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Gore, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Emotional abuse
Minor: Body horror, Excrement, and Domestic abuse
riffmonkey's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
The characters were boring and the worldbuilding was worse. This is trying so hard to make some sort of point and comparison to the real world that it just makes no fucking sense in the story. Choices that are made to show something supposedly meaningful but really it just makes no sense for the world and the characters.
Conclusion; fuck this, fuck this world, reverse sexism would never happen and is stupid. I hated it.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Kidnapping, and Misogyny
Minor: Rape