Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

574 reviews

sarahwilli's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Violence

chloe5454's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, and Cannibalism

Minor: Infertility

waverleymoran's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

lizzisok's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Slavery, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

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

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

maddierandolph's review

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

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Bullying, Mental illness, and Cannibalism

eleonorehilbig's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

ugh i don't know where to start with this review....
it's basically the hunger games in an agatha christie murder mystery but really badly executed....

things i liked: 

• gideon, our main character. she's snarky and to the point
• the sixth house (sience for the win) 
• the general magic system. 

things i didn't like: 

• the writing. (the author is using a lot of "grown-up words" which doesnt help you understand the book amy better. 
• the world building (if you can even call it that) we're in a house, on a planet, the house has doors and rooms. but mostly doors. also there are skeletons, and necromacers. and nine houses. why? who knows....
• the naming of the characters (everyone -even REALLY unimportant characters have like 3-5 different names and while
  they're being killed off
  you're just too busy trying to remember who that is to give a f*ck.
• and this might just be about the marketing - but i feel VERY iffy about how this book is promoted as "enemies to lovers" when it is absolutely a story about abuse. also wtf about the ending.
  not here for the romantasized abuse!

so basically it's a book about some characters in a house and one is a murderer. also there is necromancy and swords. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

defectivedetective's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted 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

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Slavery, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Cannibalism, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

charleyyyyy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Oh yeah, this is my shit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

cowabb'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
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

An absolutely incredible book! I personally had trouble keeping up with characters, but I think that was just from the sheer speed I was reading this book at. I was OBSESSED with it! I loved seeing the interactions between all the characters, especially between Gideon and Harrowhark (later on, that is). The horror aspects towards the end were so cool to me, too! I'm really curious to see how to series continues after the ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide