Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

549 reviews

melodyseestrees's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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, Death, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Suicide, and Blood

Minor: Cannibalism, Death of parent, and War

luckibuns'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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer, Self harm, and Suicide

Minor: Child death, Genocide, Cannibalism, and War

winged's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Confinement, Violence, Blood, and Cannibalism

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Infertility, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jaimc's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Child death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

radtj'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? Yes

4.5

Necromantic battles are just as awesome as they sound. Thoroughly enjoyed the characters and the mysterious plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

book_snail's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Genuinely can't stress this more: go into this blind, and expect your experience of the book to be unique to what you might've heard online. It's really hard to describe what this story is actually about, so it's best to experience it firsthand and draw your own conclusions :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Gore, Slavery, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, and Colonisation

Minor: Grief

sammy357's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cancer and Child death

Talk of depression, suicide, grief depiction, trauma depiction, loss of a loved one, self harm to get blood

Human sacrifice

vaguelyredhead'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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer, Cannibalism, and War

eloisereading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

marysunburn's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.75

I HATED Harrowhark when I started, and I am so glad she managed to change my mind. 
The worldbuilding was heavy and at times confusing, but the dialogue was engaging and refined and the fight scenes were cinematic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Self harm, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic