Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

121 reviews

finnertysea's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Racism, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Suicide

alsoapples's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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: Child abuse, Death, Violence, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Murder

ofbooksandechos's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

Uno dei fantasy più intriganti ch'io abbia mai letto. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicide, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault

cw: slight mentions of past instances of child sex slavery

yavin_iv's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Trafficking and Death of parent

mikki_9's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious sad 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? No

5.0

I am beyond words. I love this book. LOVE.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Genocide, Suicide, Grief, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Sexual content

bookishjude's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Slavery, and Suicide

benasbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Child abuse, Drug use, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

the_literarylinguist's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Self harm, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicide, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

tawallah's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use and Suicide

ehmannky's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

I found the first half of the book to be kind of a slow start as all of the world building is put into place and you get acquainted to the many different point of view characters and their situations (this is not a criticism of either, it just takes time to do this), but once you hit that halfway mark it just zooms right along. I couldn't put it down. The political intrigue, the wild religious stuff and the cult magic, the wonderful relationship between Serapio and Xiala, and everything that Naranpa was up to was just so much fun to read. I feel like the tragedy of being the subject of prophecy and the person everyone puts their hopes on to save (or break) the world was just so up front and center, and I can't wait to read the next installment. 

Among the many things that I appreciated about this book, beyond it just being a really good epic fantasy, is that the world is so effortlessly queer.

 

It was just as good the second time around! I still didn't care about the Okoa chapters that much, but overall this is such a good series.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Biphobia, Drug use, Homophobia, Sexism, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Vomit