Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Ann Older

17 reviews

maryellen's review

adventurous challenging emotional informative mysterious tense 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

An excellent book! I can't wait for more!! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol and Blood

alexalily's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Violence, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Murder, Suicide, and Colonisation

displacedcactus's review

mysterious fast-paced

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

This was a very brisk read -- On a flight to NY I finished the book I was already reading, read this entire thing, and had time to start a third book! I think it may have suffered from being so short -- I would have liked a little more character development and for the mystery to be less straight-forward. Over all it was an enjoyable read with some interesting ideas, it just needed to be longer.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Violence

megj23's review

fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide

uranaishi's review

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Classism, Suicide, Violence, Sexual content, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Death, and Medical content

purplepenning's review

adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

What a little fascinator this is! It's a gas-lamp Holmesian mystery fantasy set on a gas giant of a planet in a cozy dystopian future. I know, but really. The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a sort of sliding-scopic story of preservation, conservation, and growth that plays out on personal, institutional, and planetary levels. There's so much to unpack in this deceptively sparse tale. Perfect for a winter's evening. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Confinement and Cursing

caseythereader's review

adventurous lighthearted mysterious fast-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? No

4.75

Thanks to TorDotCom for the free advance copy of this book.

 - I didn't know I needed a cozy mystery set on Jupiter, but now that I've read THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES, it's kind of all I want in my life.
- This book is a good little whodunit, and the world it's set in is quite well-thought out and real feeling for a novella.
- I loved the tentative, slow beginning of a second chance romance between Mossa and Pleiti (did I mention this is also a sapphic story?), with each of them pleased to discover how the other has both changed and stayed the same.
- A second installment in this series has already been announced, and I can't wait to get my hands on it. 

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Content Warnings

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