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freneticscribbler's review against another edition
dark
emotional
fast-paced
- 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? Yes
5.0
F**king hell, Khaw. F**king hell. A whole world so other from and yet so close to our own future, which we see only fragments of. Brutally fast paced, we see this other-same world twisted through such wonderfully diverse lenses, each utterly tortured in their own way. Incisive on love, identity, faith, and so much more.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, and Gore
Moderate: Torture and Death
storieswithbee's review
dark
tense
2.0
Argh, I really try to enjoy sci-fi but I’ve never been a huge fan. I thought the book sounded interesting so I wanted to give it another go but the genre just doesn’t sit well with me. I think there is definitely readers that will enjoy the book. The story was intense. There is some trigger warning to be aware of
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, and Violence
kaisermatthias's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Imagine that Michael Bay wrote an NC-17 action movie focused exclusively on the equisite suffering of eternal life gained by constantly killing a clone and waking up in a new, slightly degraded, body that required surgical reconstruction into a half-machine, always hurting horrorshow of an existence. Then imagine that you're plotting a heist, but to do so, you have to get together a group of personalities destabilized by centuries of trauma and mutual murder. Now, disassemble all the pieces of that narrative to a point that they cannot be followed except as a series of explosion-fuck-agonizing detail of a microsecond of pain rendered in pornographic detail-technobabble especially featuring the constant use of the attosecond as time marker-remembrance of love from a time long ago-smash cut to present-fuck you-fight scene. And you have the all-consuming world.
If you're looking for action without reason, grit, gore, and more f-bombing than the Die Hard trilogy, head on in.
I would love to see this as a TV show. It's written like media, and would absolutely shine as the skeleton of a script. As a novel? It's a bit of a slog. There's some really excellent writing that gets absolutely buried under repeteated phrasing, profanity-as-personality, and a steadfast refusal to explain anything about the world except how the current POV character suffers from the state of it.
If you're looking for action without reason, grit, gore, and more f-bombing than the Die Hard trilogy, head on in.
I would love to see this as a TV show. It's written like media, and would absolutely shine as the skeleton of a script. As a novel? It's a bit of a slog. There's some really excellent writing that gets absolutely buried under repeteated phrasing, profanity-as-personality, and a steadfast refusal to explain anything about the world except how the current POV character suffers from the state of it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Toxic friendship, Torture, Mental illness, and Medical content
Minor: Fire/Fire injury
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