Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

100 reviews

goldaerin's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Grief, Medical content, Blood, Child death, Murder, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Blood, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Death of parent and Grief

Minor: Medical content

valorelei's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

one of my favorite books ever. i’m convinced tam muir is a dissociative system at this point (me too)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Violence, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Cancer, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, War, Chronic illness, Body horror, Gore, and Medical content

squirrelbaffler's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

4.0

Fun Gothic fantasy with high highs, but definitely some awkward language. The author does a good job of conveying the MC's experience to the reader, but there's a good chunk of time where the Mc is bored out of her skull, and that chunk drags. Still, it's worth pushing through for all the dominoes to fall, ending quite strong. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, Violence, Suicide, Medical content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Death

sabrina_marvil's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Wrong.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, Genocide, Gore, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, Incest, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Cancer, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Colonisation, Self harm, Stalking, Trafficking, Torture, Medical content, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Blood, Body shaming, Vomit, War, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Mental illness

Not in space

beebidon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

I think about this series at least once a day. I put off reading it bc I fully believed my friends who warned me that it would be consume  me.  They were right and I regret nothing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Death, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Suicide, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Child death, Abandonment, Suicide attempt, Medical trauma, and Violence

Minor: Religious bigotry, Vomit, Pregnancy, Cannibalism, Colonisation, War, and Confinement

emalderwood's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was spectacular, a blast, and absolutely destroyed me at the end with a last jab of a plot twist I never saw coming. I wanted to throw the book SO BAD. But Muir knocked it out of the park in so many ways. Gideon is a unique and matchless main character full of spite and sarcasm and I adored getting to experience her as the main POV. The world was weird and grisly and confusing but in a delightful, creative and cool way and not in a thrown-together way. The plot twists were genius - you never knew what was going to happen next  but once they did you could see the trail the author had made leading there. Thoroughly recommend this if you're okay with weird, not knowing exactly what's happening all the time, and lots of blood and bones and gore. And if you're emotionally ready for an ending that will make you mad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Murder, Terminal illness, Body horror, and Suicide

Minor: Medical content, Toxic friendship, Vomit, and War

pixelpigeon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

At no point did I know what was going to happen next. The beginning will be overwhelming; the author drops you into a world unlike any piece of fiction I've ever read, and doesn't hold your hand much. But stick it out. Keep the wiki of characters open on your phone if you need to, but be careful of spoilers. This book is so worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Murder, and Medical trauma

dejanira's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

I wouldn't call it necessarily a "lesbian fantasy" but more a post-apo steampunk dark academia murder mystery fantasy with sci-fi elements where all main characters are messy and unapologetic lesbians all attracted to each other and doing nothing about it, but looking extremely cool throughout (TW: puns).
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It's complicated.
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You're gonna love it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Body horror, and Medical content

katie_mackey's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gore

Moderate: Medical content