Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

21 reviews

paukinra's review against another edition

challenging dark inspiring mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Trafficking, Suicide, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

dehahs's review against another edition

The writing was quite bland. Switching narrators every chapter (none of whom were compelling) plus breaking up the already short chapters with "non-fiction" quotes at the start gave me whiplash; there was too much context switching for me to really wrap my head around anything or feel invested in any of it. Unfortunately, the audio didn't help either.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Slavery

bookjaims's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

boglord's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Self harm, Vomit, Grief, Medical content, Suicide, and Deportation

Minor: Death of parent, Confinement, Blood, Genocide, and Panic attacks/disorders

quinnyquinnquinn's review against another edition

informative mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Confinement, Trafficking, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Classism, Police brutality, and Animal death

Minor: Suicide and Mental illness

maggiemac23's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Trafficking, and Slavery

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Vomit, Blood, Cursing, and Religious bigotry

kylieqrada's review

challenging dark mysterious 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

As beautiful as this book is on the outside, it absolutely holds up upon reading!! An at-times over my head discussion of consciousness and its various forms with multiple perspectives following seemingly unconnected plots that come together at the enddddd?! Ugh. Love.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Death, and Trafficking

Moderate: Suicide, Animal death, and Mental illness

Minor: Self harm

rebelscum's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Trafficking and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

pagesandplanets's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery and Trafficking

Moderate: Animal death

emmalouisereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious 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

4.5

This is a fascinating look into the similarities and differences between the ways humans communicate with each other, and other species .. including technology.

There’s a heavy focus on octopuses which I particularly enjoyed. I’ve always been fascinated by how/why octopuses are so intelligent when they are not very social. This book explores what might happen if they were…

This book touches on so much, what it means to be alive, the concept of communication and the consequences of the technology we’ve built.

If you’re a fan of sci-fi, I think you’ll like this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Suicidal thoughts