Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

746 reviews

bronteysbooks's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Racism, Self harm, Slavery, Vomit, Trafficking, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation

moonlitemuseum's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark informative sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book put me off eating for a week

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

jjjreads's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Excrement, Dementia

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Deadnaming, Cannibalism, Pandemic/Epidemic

calliope_rivers's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War

Minor: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Sexual violence, Blood, Colonisation, Classism

dominiq_ec's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This was a wonderfully written piece of media, but young adults making emotionally charged decisions will never be my forte, especially being someone easily consumed by anger myself. And when you apply this to colonial narratives, we simply see colonial trauma transforming a victim into a colonizer herself. 

I had high hopes for Rin. And she was nowhere close to reaching them. But I’m not sure if she was meant to. 

I’ll think about reading the rest of the series, but I don’t think I will. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Ableism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts

gabi_715's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

gretaslittlelibrary's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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A god tier level book, listened on audio as a reread. I do prefer this book as a physical book, the audio kind of takes away from Kuang’s skill of the written words. Kuang is a master of setting every scene perfectly, it feels like your with Rin every step of the way. The sense of dread, hope, and more dread settles on your bones and minds and makes you want to close the book and take a break, but is so well written that you cannot put the book down. Rin is such a complex morally grey character and I cannot get enough of her, I’m excited to reread the next two books. I hope RF Kuang goes back to her fantasy roots in the coming novels! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Genocide, Rape, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Racial slurs, Self harm, Slavery, Torture, Murder, Classism

camerondeja's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The main character is impossibly frustrating! But lovable but damn

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Xenophobia, War

pigeonsarecool's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use

saturnreturns's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional inspiring sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Rape, Slavery, Torture, War