Reviews tagging 'War'

The Wall of Storms by Ken Liu

8 reviews

pepper_mind's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Rape, and Sexual assault

sirpasta's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Colonisation, Death, War, Xenophobia, Violence, Slavery, Murder, Drug use, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and Torture

Minor: Child abuse, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Sexual violence, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Alcohol, and Cannibalism

kendal_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, War, Death of parent, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Rape, and Torture

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy

chemicallykat's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

5.0

Idk what happened but this is like. 1000x better than book one. I loved this. The women??? Thera, Zomi, Gin, and Jia are STARS. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexism, War, and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy, Torture, Misogyny, Animal death, Blood, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Slavery

nquinlan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.0

A wonderful story. Like Dune books 3 and above, it felt like the author got a little lost in the philosophy of his universe, at least at the start.

Once the book got going, it was full of twists and turns and beauty. I tore through it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and War

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Pregnancy

astraeal's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

4.75

princess théra,,,, my heart for you

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Animal death, Murder, and War

Moderate: Sexual assault, Slavery, Rape, and Drug use

onthebooksel's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-paced

5.0

Content warnings for: violence, animal cruelty, death, slavery, rape/sexual assault (pages 810-812 in chapter 56) 

I want to firstly mention that while Liu does a really good job subverting many narrative tropes - his attempt at subverting the barbarian trope with one conversation between two warring peoples about who really belongs on the land when you know that your people also settled here at some point fails because of the rape of the one character almost immediately afterwards. 

Otherwise Liu proves himself to be an all around outstanding author and if you want a more in depth review I would check out Tammie’s review here: 

https://goodreads.com/review/show/3723995676?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Animal death, Death, Grief, Violence, Slavery, Torture, War, Kidnapping, Rape, and Sexual assault

emilyacres's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War

Minor: Violence and Sexual assault