Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

2 reviews

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

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