Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

24 reviews

r_louhi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: War and Confinement

Minor: Sexual harassment and Misogyny

yourbookishbff's review

adventurous reflective sad fast-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

Someone tell Herman Melville that a woman did it better and in far fewer pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

ehmannky's review

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

A lovely novella following the fantasy falconry adventures of Ester as she works to train a roc on hunting manticores for the kingdom. I loved the worldbuilding here, Lee's writing and style is just as wonderful as it was in the Green Bone series, and I loved the characters. I think this should have been a full-fledged novel, because all I wanted was way more than 140 something pages. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, Blood, Child death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death

saucy_bookdragon's review

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

3.0

This was basically a horse girl fantasy but with giant birds and monster hunting instead of horses. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Gore

rnbhargava's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing 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

5.0

This is fantastic. The only thing I want is more. It’s kind of like the film series “How To Train Your Dragon” but with more of a hunting for actual use/naturalist bent

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Blood, Medical trauma, Violence, Death, Child death, Grief, Gaslighting, and Body horror

Minor: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Sexual violence

I say minor to sexism, sexual assault, sexual harassment and sexual violence as they’re things mentioned to happen but the female protagonist character never experiences it first hand, perhaps given her close bond with the major male supporting character of the novella.

hwesta's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Child death, Death, and Blood

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

Minor: Miscarriage and Vomit

clarabooksit's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Violence, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Sexism

blacksphinx's review

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Child death, Violence, Animal death, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pregnancy, Vomit, Confinement, Sexism, and Excrement

tacochelle's review

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.0

Gorgeous cover. Short novella about a woman who lost her mom and baby brother to manticores, so she trains to lead a rok into combat against these monsters. If you are not familiar with them, manticore have the face of a man, body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion,  and like to eat people. Roks are giant birds. Like, massive birds. Both are traditionally found in middle eastern folklore, Persian and Arabian respectively. As a fantasy nerd who reread the same fantasy creature encyclopedia over and over as a kid, I loved reading about these two monsters that don't usually get attention. While brief, the world is very well established. While the focus is on our main character Ester, you also get to see how her two friends handle the same pressure. They all have this obsession with their rok, with killing monsters, all for various personal reasons. I enjoyed watching them interact, and where their obsession ultimately leads them. I'm satisfied with the ending here. But I wouldn't mind another story within this same world, maybe with new characters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Animal cruelty, Gore, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

devynreadsnovels's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gore, Animal cruelty, Child death, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, and Animal death