Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

116 reviews

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

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Content Warnings

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

tarynlannister's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and War

redkeys's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

lesbian space necromancers. delightfully macabre 10/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, and Cannibalism

jennalwiegand's review against another edition

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

Very very good, so many good funny moments while Also having
Heart wrenching sad ones. The character growth was impeccable. Also if you want an enemies to almost lovers this is a perfect fit! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Minor: Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Death of parent

emilyplun's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

A murder mystery with necromancers and swords, and the main character is hilarious. Extremely good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

mairallen1114's review against another edition

dark 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
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

fucking superb. i read it twice back-to-back because of all the excellent foreshadowing. it's full of characters you will love and events you'll hate and when you finish you will be screaming to the sky because literally w h a t. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Eating disorder, and Fire/Fire injury

buckle the fuck up homies, theres a lot of content warnings. graphic warnings will not be elaborated on because they are just broad themes of the book (it's about necromancy, you kind of sign up for this). child abuse listed for

the abhorrent treatment of gideon and harrowhark

. death of parent for

harrows shitty parents committing suicide, brought up a few times

. self harm listed because necromancers will sometimes pull their own organic material (hair, teeth, nails) to use for necromantic acts, not used in terms of mental illness or self punishment. brief cancer mention when MAJOR SPOILER

palamedes gives a character "turbo cancer"

. child death listed for MAJOR SPOILER

we learn harrow was born from the deaths of 200 ninth house children between ages 1-18, also Jeannemary and Isaac die and are only teenagers

. eating disorder listed because harrow does not eat as well and as often as she should, causing her to pass out and such. fire/fire injury listed for

when they discover pro's remains as well as someone else's in the incinerator

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Medical content, and War

starrygal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide, Stalking, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Death of parent, and War

peach_pie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad 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

4.0

This book had the most creative insults and one-liners. Also I had to look up so many of these big fancy words! It’s a real rollercoaster 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

daydreamermoonwalker'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
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

OG rating (9/13/21): 4.5 stars 

What I liked: The murder mystery plotline, the relationship between the main characters (holy shit I loved their dynamic and development), the humor (seriously "we do bones, motherfucker!" is an actual line from the book I love it) 

What I didn't like: It took a while to get into (about 100 pages), the abundance of fight scenes (only a negative cuz I personally don't enjoy fight scenes that much no, but they were well written) 

Overall it started slow but the rest of it was so fantastic that I don't care and I can't wait to read the sequel!! (Trust me you're gonna wanna have the sequel on standby)

Updated rating(10/10/21): 5 stars 

Everything I said in the original review still stands, it was just a lot less confusing, and therefore a lot more enjoyable the second time round. It's definitely the type of book that you can reread over and over because you find new things every time.

Reread 01/29/22: This is my third read and it still *really* holds up! It honestly gets better each time. I absolutely love being able to theorize about what will happen in future books, and the foreshadowing and attention to detail is *incredible*. I'm not kidding when I say this and the sequel are the best books I've ever read and I can't wait for the third book!!

Here are a few more likes/dislikes 

Dislikes: 

Lack of body diversity: Most of the characters are thin, and the only fat character is viewed as lazy and cowardly. 

Lack of description of skin tone and ethnicity: The main characters are supposed to be mixed Maori (said by the author in a tumblr post) but it's pretty much impossible to get this from the text alone. This leads to a lot of whitewashing in fan art. I think diversity in fiction is very important, so I wish the author had been more explicit in her representation.

These things didn't ruin the story for me, but I like to be able to see the flaws in the things I enjoy! 

Likes: 

The emphasis on non-romantic relationships: The non-romantic/platonic relationships are given just as much depth and importance as the romantic ones. They're allowed to be complicated and messy, they're allowed to be intense and all encompassing, they're allowed to be each other's favorite person! It was a breath a fresh air for me, as I think a lot of fiction puts most of the focus on romantic relationships. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia and Suicidal thoughts