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Last Exit by Max Gladstone

1 review

aardwyrm's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

Gladstone's prose is in a class by itself. Language flensed and rebuilt. The worldbuilding, the characters, the magic, all are phenomena in their own right, but nobody bites with words quite like that. Also he almost made me care about muscle cars, which has never been done before. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Hate crime, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Car accident, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic friendship, Violence, and War