Reviews tagging 'Self harm'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

91 reviews

ireadqueerbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

abbyschalupa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Torture, Medical content, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

cozyscones's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Self harm, Suicide, and Cannibalism

bronzemist's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Self harm, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

storykath's review

adventurous dark tense medium-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? No

4.25

Gotta say, I was very confused a lot of the time. I appreciated that there was no clunky exposition sections, but I did feel thrown into the deep end in terms of the universe and magic system and everything. As such, I didn't always fully understand why everything happened the way it happened (especially towards the end) but overall I could still appreciate what was going on.

Gideon was a fantastic narrator, funny and flawed and truly unique. She's chaotic and hilarious!

This book took me a while to get through, and I think that's partly due to my brain being picky about reading, but also partly because of how gory and tense things got in the story. I couldn't always stomach it for multiple chapters at a time. Between the injuries and the sometimes-dense plot, this was a book I had to tackle in smallish chunks. That being said, I'm starting the sequel right away so I don't forget any important plot points.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Genocide, Self harm, Terminal illness, Vomit, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Minor: Excrement, Medical content, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

towhee's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Murder

annapox's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Self harm, Blood, Grief, and Cannibalism

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Infertility, Slavery, Suicide, Excrement, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and War

trickphoenix's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Suicide, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Grief, and War

ireadinbed's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

You ever take a long time to read a book because you just feel like it can't live up to the hype? I did that with this book. 

And it was such a mistake. Hype fully lives up to. So Irreverent and gross and very epic feeling. 

Loved the characters. Enjoyed the texture a lot. The world building is very interesting and layered. 

It did suffer a bit from that big fantasy book too much infor at once in the first bits, but it evened out quickly and the rest read spectacularly fast. 

I would have given this 5 stars if there had been a bit better foreshadowing on a few things. I think. 

The only thing is 

there is a bit at the end that just felt 'bury your gays' esque. I'm not sure it qualifies, but I was real not happy about it. But there was some mystery it may be resolved later.

It might be a 5star reread and I can totally see myself rereading it. I'm pretty sure this will be a buy for me and I only buy a few books a year so that's saying something! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Infertility, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

panthalassa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, War, and Classism