Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

35 reviews

purplepenning's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Gore, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Child death, Infertility, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Classism, and Confinement

Minor: Religious bigotry

rlgreen91's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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? No

5.0

What a ride.  What a ride.  I kept seeing so much hype for this book and yeah, it's pretty well-deserved.  It's certainly been a while since I've gotten hooked on a mystery like this.

Gideon is a great character - I really enjoyed how the author managed to hit a personality sweet spot of self-confidence, compassion, and self-deprecation.  I enjoyed a lot of the characterization honestly. I also liked that a good chunk of the dialogue made me laugh - the style of humor reminds me a bit of A Confederacy of Dunces.  It can be easy to run into fantasy stories that take themselves a little too seriously, so it was really refreshing to chuckle at some of the interactions.

I also really enjoyed the fight scenes.  I can't say I read a lot of stuff with fight scenes, but that's always struck me as something that's particularly difficult to convey as an author. But the fight scenes were so excellent because they were so engaging - you would start one and get caught up in the scene at hand.  There was no way you could stop reading mid-scene.  That was a very big highlight of the book, so if fight scenes are something you're looking for or picky about, I highly recommend you pick this up.

Like I said above, it's been a bit since I've been this hooked by a mystery.  There were definitely moments throughout that made me suspicious about what would ultimately happen, and how that would be a twist on the plot points we were seeing happen.  I know that if I were to re-read this, I would find even more breadcrumbs.  However, that won't be happening any time soon - I've already ordered the next book, Harrow the Ninth, which I'm hoping contains a lighthearted origin story of the nickname "Griddle".  5 stars.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Cancer, Child death, and Grief

Minor: War and Infertility

lisa_m's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I did not know that this is a kind of sci-fi book? Honestly if I knew that I probably would not have read it and I am so so glad that I did.

It took me some time to understand what was going on but once I got into it I started to really enjoy it. This book is absolutely hilarious at times and I was actually laughing.

The setting is something I did not quite understand and I still have a lot of questions about the whole world building and everything. I do think that most of the information is actually in the book but it was a bit difficult at times to understand everything. Also there are a lot of characters that I continuously got mixed up.

The ending was a unexpected though predictable. I thought this might happen but I also thought the author would dare.. I am really interested to read the rest of the series and I hope it will be easier to read since I already know the world kind of.

I also thought the book would be more explicitly lesbian since that was one of the main selling points for me. But who know maybe in the following books.

I did love the relationship between Gideon and Harrow though. It was a bit frustrating at times but also super fun. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, War, and Death of parent

reading_grin's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Dobře napsaná kniha, ale slíbené lesby=několik málo narážek, nesnáším konec!

Proč bych měla číst druhý díl, když se na konci prvního ZLIKVIDUJÍ VŠECHNY POSTAVY I PROSTŘEDÍ ?

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Murder, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Infertility

mads_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Ableism, Confinement, Death, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Cannibalism, Genocide, Gore, Cancer, Child abuse, Body horror, Death of parent, and Child death

Minor: Medical content, Excrement, Torture, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Chronic illness, Infertility, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Murder, Miscarriage, Police brutality, Pregnancy, and Suicide

annapox's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Torture, Vomit, Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Medical content, and Cursing

Moderate: Cannibalism, Blood, Grief, and Self harm

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Confinement, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, War, Child death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Slavery

ireadinbed's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.5

You ever take a long time to read a book because you just feel like it can't live up to the hype? I did that with this book. 

And it was such a mistake. Hype fully lives up to. So Irreverent and gross and very epic feeling. 

Loved the characters. Enjoyed the texture a lot. The world building is very interesting and layered. 

It did suffer a bit from that big fantasy book too much infor at once in the first bits, but it evened out quickly and the rest read spectacularly fast. 

I would have given this 5 stars if there had been a bit better foreshadowing on a few things. I think. 

The only thing is 

there is a bit at the end that just felt 'bury your gays' esque. I'm not sure it qualifies, but I was real not happy about it. But there was some mystery it may be resolved later.

It might be a 5star reread and I can totally see myself rereading it. I'm pretty sure this will be a buy for me and I only buy a few books a year so that's saying something! 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Murder, Self harm, Death of parent, Death, Toxic friendship, and Infertility

realizedcreation's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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

3.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Excrement, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Medical content, Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Medical trauma, Murder, and Toxic friendship

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful mysterious 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

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Gore, Blood, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Grief, Child abuse, Classism, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Physical abuse, Suicide, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Infertility

Minor: Alcohol, Pregnancy, and War

jjjreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence