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citymouse's review
Graphic: Murder
Moderate: Vomit, Abandonment, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, and Cultural appropriation
Minor: Sexual content
emily_mh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Colonisation
Moderate: Blood, Murder, Gun violence, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Violence, Death, and War
Minor: Fatphobia, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Body shaming, Pregnancy, Medical content, Ableism, Animal death, Gore, Alcohol, and Police brutality
Moderate: imprisonment, earthquake Minor: police corruption, loss of a loved one, capital punishment, gambling, racism directed at biracial individualshendrixpants's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Murder and Colonisation
laurareads87's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Confinement, Colonisation, Murder, Death, War, Violence, Torture, Xenophobia, and Blood
Minor: Gore and Injury/Injury detail
radtastical's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Torture, Murder, Death, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Colonisation, and Blood
Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, Gore, and Blood
Minor: War, Alcohol, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Excrement, and Medical content
bluberrybooks's review against another edition
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Murder and Colonisation
Minor: Death of parent
devynvictoria's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
4.0
Graphic: Colonisation, Confinement, and Torture
Moderate: Blood, Classism, Death, and Murder
Minor: Death of parent and Grief
anonymous_traveller's review against another edition
- 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? No
4.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Colonisation, Excrement, Cursing, Vomit, Torture, Confinement, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Violence, Slavery, Pregnancy, Kidnapping, War, Sexual content, Murder, Medical content, Genocide, and Drug use
brnineworms's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
There are so many issues I could pick apart but I think I’ll stop here. Between the flat characters, the lack of follow-through on interesting concepts, and the inconsistencies throughout, Phoenix Extravagant is hard to recommend. That said, it’s largely inoffensive. I appreciate what the author was going for, at least, even if it feels half-baked. I don’t think it’s bad but I’m glad I’m done with it.
Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, War, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Animal death, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Stalking, Torture, Vomit, Excrement, Gun violence, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Drug use, Gore, Infidelity, Cannibalism, Kidnapping, Medical content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Abandonment, and Death of parent
martinatan's review against another edition
Overall I found the non-Western-centric culture and history of Hwaguk and Razan as well as the main characters’ profiles to be interesting and a breath of fresh air in contemporary fantasy. I also appreciated how integrated queer characters and relationships were in the story although, since so much else of the world in the book reflected our current society—namely some conventions that characters held about love, ancestry, and family—I wondered whether it was appropriate to have such a lack of in-universe discrimination towards LGBT characters. I still like the book for the representation it offered but there were too many things that did not sit right with me for me to rave about the reading experience.
Moderate: Death, Violence, War, Xenophobia, Torture, Murder, Colonisation, and Confinement
Minor: Gun violence, Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Genocide, Cannibalism, and Alcohol