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kerttuli's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
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? It's complicated
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, Confinement, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Body horror, Gore, Hate crime, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Alcohol, Colonisation, Murder, and Medical content
Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Cancer
etosaurus's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
I really struggled with the slow pacing of the first half of this book, and I have continued the trend of getting profoundly depressed about humans' inherent ability not to screw things up. Between Cibola Burn and Nemesis Games, we've seen two apocalyptic events on two entirely different planets, and the scale of destruction and suffering they cause is hard to shake, especially when I am increasingly spending my time thinking about the climate disaster and other ways we're messing up the earth right now. I'm starting to feel that maybe this series isn't for me despite how much I want to like it, but there's a minor nonbinary character in the next book so I figure I might as well see how that goes before I decide if I should bail or not.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts
One character spends a good portion of the book thinking about suicide.
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