Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

188 reviews

shaninky's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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OOOOOOF. That was insane. My soul hurts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

taylorgoldenflame19's review against another edition

5.0

dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

rachelemiller's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

ukosakul's review against another edition

3.25

dark sad tense

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Colonisation, War

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Gaslighting

sofstappen's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail

beau_b_reading's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I sadly don't think any book of the series is ever gonna top the first (Poppy War), but I still enjoyed it enough to want to finish the series. I would recommend reading it in big chunks rather than occasionally, because the story doesn't hit as much that way whoops. Thank you Daniel for lending this copy to me :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Cannibalism, Acephobia/Arophobia

pixilin's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

chitanda's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional sad 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

catzkey's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Rape, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, War

Moderate: Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Murder

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Cursing, Racism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Alcohol

the_friendly_ghost's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging 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

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I really like this book, It's been well over 2 years since I first read it and I didn't realise how much I'd truely forgotten. 

Very enjoyable read, still hurts as much as the first time, better than the first one.

Fuck you, Nezha. I can't remember whether she kills Viasra but I really hope she does

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Deportation