Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

116 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

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Content Warnings

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

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

Minor: Religious bigotry

taylorbarks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

I devoured this book in a view days. Remarkably unique setting straddling both fantasy and sci-fi. The make-or-break feature for most will be the prose, which one will either love or hate. It vascillates between the verbose and descriptive to the terse and laconic, often creative, often comedic. I enjoyed it greatly. I can see how others might not. Either way, Tamsyn Muir has a unique and striking voice.
One of my favorite reads this year. Thoroughly recommended.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Violence, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Vomit, Death of parent, and War

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. 

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Content Warnings

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

entityj's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense slow-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, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

ireadqueerbooks's review against another edition

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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

abbyschalupa's review against another edition

challenging 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Self harm, Torture, Medical content, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

bronzemist's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Self harm, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

orlagal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

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

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

remytherat's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I really liked this! There was a really good use of foreshadowing throughout, and I was pleasantly surprised at some of the twists; some I expected, but that isn't at all a flaw. There was good character growth by the end, although the final battle did feel a little oddly paced at times. Also, while the characters were loveable and i did grow attached, there were a lot of choices they made that really annoyed me. All in all though, I did really enjoy the story, the humour and the characters, and I definitely think I read at least the second book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Cannibalism, and Death of parent