Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

42 reviews

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

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

orlagal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and War

realizedcreation's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Excrement, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Medical content, Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Medical trauma, Murder, and Toxic friendship

rtaire's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Body horror, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Cancer, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

cattails's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cancer, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Infertility, Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, and Suicide attempt

mairallen1114's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense medium-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? No

5.0

fucking superb. i read it twice back-to-back because of all the excellent foreshadowing. it's full of characters you will love and events you'll hate and when you finish you will be screaming to the sky because literally w h a t. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, and Terminal illness

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Eating disorder, and Fire/Fire injury

buckle the fuck up homies, theres a lot of content warnings. graphic warnings will not be elaborated on because they are just broad themes of the book (it's about necromancy, you kind of sign up for this). child abuse listed for

the abhorrent treatment of gideon and harrowhark

. death of parent for

harrows shitty parents committing suicide, brought up a few times

. self harm listed because necromancers will sometimes pull their own organic material (hair, teeth, nails) to use for necromantic acts, not used in terms of mental illness or self punishment. brief cancer mention when MAJOR SPOILER

palamedes gives a character "turbo cancer"

. child death listed for MAJOR SPOILER

we learn harrow was born from the deaths of 200 ninth house children between ages 1-18, also Jeannemary and Isaac die and are only teenagers

. eating disorder listed because harrow does not eat as well and as often as she should, causing her to pass out and such. fire/fire injury listed for

when they discover pro's remains as well as someone else's in the incinerator

goldsbuc's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Chronic illness

peach_pie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.0

This book had the most creative insults and one-liners. Also I had to look up so many of these big fancy words! It’s a real rollercoaster 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and War

illuminatedspace's review

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Honestly one of the best books I've ever read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Body horror, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Grief, and Self harm

sweekune's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

"Lesbian Necromancers in Space" was literally all the encouragement I needed to pick this book up. Gideon the Ninth was not the book I expected, definitely a book I didn't even know I needed and the first book in a while to reduce me to tears.

- The prose is a bizarre combination of eloquent, superfluous and down-to-the-point sarcasm and it works beautifully. Muir's writing is immersive and funny.

- Gideon and Harrow are perfectly portrayed and you really get a feel for both of them, their motivations, their fears. The relationships within the book feel real and complex and it is obvious that Muir has taken her time to craft proper characters and dynamics that are believable.

- The tension! I had no idea how this would end until it happened. So mysterious and kept me guessing. And that ending...

I am moving straight on to Harrow the Ninth as I need to know what happens next. If you like the initial description, creepy house mysteries and intruiging writing styles and characters then this book is for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Cannibalism, Child death, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit