Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

704 reviews

drtsh's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

Moderate: Gore

emimli's review

emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Cancer, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Grief, Murder, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Confinement and Emotional abuse

luciferin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Grief, Physical abuse, Vomit, and War

alica2's review

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I went into this not really knowing anything except goth and lesbians and boy howdy did I get more than what I signed up for LOLOL. Was absolutely not expecting this to be kind of a fantasy/sci-fi book with necromancers and sword fighters in space but it works somehow?? I really love the writing style and how funny Gideon's narration is. Also was not expecting the enemies to lovers (??) situation but it's one of my favorite tropes so I'm not complaining. The ending hit me like a truck, like I feel like I should have expected it but I did not and I was extremely upset (in a good way, but jesus damn...). Honestly the worldbuilding was kind of confusing because not very much is explained, but I was having so much fun that I didn't really mind being confused. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Body horror

jleejj42's review

challenging dark mysterious fast-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

luly_sc's review

dark emotional 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Murder

risou91's review

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Gore

julesfrigault's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

maddierandolph's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death, Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Cannibalism, Bullying, and Mental illness

bucketsjen's review

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This book hurt my feelings.


I also have QUESTIONS, I took a break for a few weeks to nurse my emotional wounds and then tackled the next book in the series. As far as how this worked within a series:  it felt like a whole book on its own, with more mysteries and questions and next steps to pursue. So, yay, that's the best! 

Fair warning. It's a very big and very messy and very vast unverse with deep as fuck lore. The prose is also complicated and dense. I recommend just shrugging and going with it  - it flows well and makes a weird sort of sense if you just let it take you along. 

It's science fantasy, necromancers in space exploring ancient ruins trying to solve complicated mysteries to ascend to near godhood in order to help fight to save the universe and humanity. So it's huge in scope but also takes place in a very limited space with limited characters.

The lesbian aspect gets hyped up a lot but there's not smut. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Body horror