Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

7 reviews

thesunthesunthesunthesun's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective tense

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

4.75

Hopefully i will write a more elaborate review soon. This book and the books before were GOOD.

Extremely tight writing style, every page some horrifying/exhillirating truth is revealed and the hints and clues for plots and conspiracies for later are laid out.

There was never a dull moment, inlcuding the finance talk (which is, of course, quite essential for a story about an accountant).

Various chapters of the book switch points of view, characters, locations, and that could get confusing if you don't pay attention. I personally felt it was doable, but I could see how people would struggle with this.

Very slightly displeased at the ending of this book, and how it was setting up the next book. It was still very good, but it didn't leave me as breathless and excited and terrified the way the other two did. Those had the endings set up in such a way that I kept thinking "no! i have so many unanswered questions!!".
Here, things were being wrapped up nicely, and Then the next thing was introduced.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Cancer, Drug abuse, Blood, Homophobia, Cultural appropriation, Cursing, Xenophobia, Animal death, Gaslighting, Grief, Violence, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Racism, Biphobia, Body horror, Confinement, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Murder, Misogyny, Outing, Torture, and Trafficking

Moderate: Homophobia, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Transphobia, Classism, Drug use, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

Minor: Incest, Domestic abuse, Cannibalism, Child death, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, and Suicide attempt

hailstorm3812's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

OK. I was dubious about the first book, but utterly won over by this third book. I think Tau and the exploration of trim as a philosophy just enthralled me. All these messy people being pulled together to take down an empire. It feels like if you took the YA revolutionary books I read as a teen and let them grow as I did. It shows the complexities of governance and cruelty but also love and friendship. It's so interesting. I cried in the second to last chapter.

I also thought it was a trilogy, and was gobsmacked by the end. It honestly felt a little unnecessary. I think a trilogy with some loose thread of all the work we have to keep doing would have worked thematically and for me, but I am excited for more and to see what happens.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Medical content, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Ableism, Alcoholism, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Grief, Gaslighting, Cannibalism, Drug abuse, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, War, Police brutality, Murder, Gore, and Genocide

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, and Child death

Minor: Pregnancy and Torture

beebalm's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Here I am getting obsessed with another 4 book series that was supposed to be a trilogy with no release timeline for the finale....

I don't know how he did it, but Seth has clearly done his research, used beta readers, etc to capture all kinds of queerness and how that interacts with the Empire. 

So glad to see

Baru finally realizing that its okay to be a gay woman and seemingly coming to a way to actually finish her goal.

I also really liked seeing

her parents return as characters and also seeing the Mbo sideplot finally connect back to the present day plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Colonisation, Body horror, Lesbophobia, Violence, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Transphobia, Cultural appropriation, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Violence, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Colonisation, Drug use, Racism, Torture, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Blood, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Classism, Confinement, Trafficking, and War

mazomazli's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Sooo much better than the second book! I’m not sure if I can continue with another book full of despair and lobotomies though. If you haven’t guessed by the first two books, it’s only going to get more graphic and disturbing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, War, Gore, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Cancer, Colonisation, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Death, and Medical trauma

gilroi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Abortion, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Transphobia, Medical trauma, Cancer, Torture, Grief, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Gore, Gaslighting, Drug use, Death, Cursing, Classism, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Homophobia, Genocide, and Emotional abuse

rigadoon's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma