Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Luna: New Moon by Ian McDonald

4 reviews

lanid's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Drug use, Terminal illness, Death of parent, and Acephobia/Arophobia

nilssjoberg's review against another edition

dark medium-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Pedophilia, Sexism, Medical content, and Pregnancy

mdpenguin's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I got this as a freebie from Tor a while ago, presumably to get me to buy the sequels.  I'm afraid it didn't work.  I just don't care about the vendetta or the politics enough to see what happens.  Most of the characters are arrogant and vain and I don't particularly want to spend more time with them.  I also found the social structure too unrealistic – it would have devolved into competing warlords way before it got to the start of this story – and I don't really care about any of the characters enough to want to know what happens to them.  I'm not saying it was bad – it is interesting and I enjoyed large parts of it – it's just that it failed to make me care enough to go on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

francestea's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

What an unusual read! The format of this book is unique, with each chapter following many different character broken down in 2-20ish page blurbs per person. The chapter breaks sort of felt arbitrary since there were so many mini breaks. With all the jumping around from character to character and with SO MUCH plot happening it read slow for me despite all the action. Not sure if I’ll continue on with the series or not but I thoroughly enjoyed my time on the moon!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, and Death of parent