Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

52 reviews

mvfreeze's review

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

emilycfox's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.25

I’ll read the next one but wasn’t blown away. I never felt like I really got close enough to the characters to care about what they did (I don’t have to necessarily like them for that to happen, but I need to feel some stakes). It felt like I was waiting to get sucked in but it never happened. Overall kinda boring but not unpleasant. I didn’t really understand the logistics of the big thing that happens with Yienne at the end — how it was possible or why it happened according to the physics of this magic world. I was going to look up others’ explanations or analysis but then didn’t really care enough to do it. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Misogyny, Death of parent, Murder, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Racism, Sexual content, War, Colonisation, and Genocide

Minor: Rape

trulycrispy's review

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

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

2.0

I wanted to like this book more, and it felt like it had the opportunity to be better. But ultimately the Main Character feels underdeveloped, and the plot accidental. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

squids_can_read's review

slow-paced

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

1.5

This book was horrible. I thought this was going to be about a young woman who is thrust into politics and is fighting for the throne. Instead, I got a weird amalgamation of half-baked science fiction and incestual gods. The main character is about as interesting as watching paint dry. The world-building is nonexistent. The rest of the characters are no better. This could have been a brilliant book about how love makes us complete but no it's just about sex. Honestly, why push the point that the gods are siblings if you are going to make their whole relationship just about sex? It's gross. Do you know what else is gross, pushing that this god character is fundamentally a child and then referencing people having sex with said child? Honestly, I don't know how I pushed my way through this. It was terrible. Maybe some people will like it but it just wasn't my cup of tea. I will probably not be reading anything else by this author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gore, Pedophilia, Rape, Murder, Sexual violence, Torture, War, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Incest, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

yruss972's review

slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

sirius_feanor's review against another edition

2.75

It was okay enough to finish it I guess. But overall kinda meh. Felt too YA for me. Young girl, ancient gods, bla-bla, one of them has a crush on her, she has to die because tradition or something, there's a yikes sex scene, she dies, boom she's a god now too. 
Still thinking if I want to continue with the series. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Slavery, Death, Rape, Sexual content, and Torture

nixieba25f's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Body horror, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Bullying, Physical abuse, Colonisation, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Death, Genocide, Slavery, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Murder, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, War, Torture, Xenophobia, Toxic relationship, and Violence

lozbot27's review

adventurous challenging mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.5

I enjoyed the world building elements  and the lore. The writing did tend towards cheesy, however, I will read the sequel to see what unfolds for itempas. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content and Child abuse

ecmbeanie's review

dark lighthearted mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Classism, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Sexual content, Slavery, Colonisation, and Confinement

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Death of parent and Genocide

rtmn93's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Racism, Classism, and Slavery