Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

234 reviews

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Torture, Death of parent, Racism, Murder, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Vomit, War, Death, and Violence

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Excrement, Blood, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, Animal death, Ableism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Sexual content, Vomit, Sexism, Grief, Dysphoria, and Child abuse

Minor: Medical content, Sexual violence, Body shaming, and Slavery

lonny05's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexism, War, and Child death

stormeno's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, War, and Death of parent

Moderate: Dysphoria, Sexual content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, and Classism

bookish_kirst's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.5

I've held off on posting this review for literally weeks now because I keep changing my kind on what I thought of it but I've realised that just it's one of those books where if someone asked me what it's about/what happens I probably couldn't tell them🤦🏻‍♀️ that being said, I still really enjoyed it!😂

This book is so talked about on social media and ALOT of people put it down as a sapphic romance, when honestly not even a quarter of the book deals with romance plots of any kind. It's mainly war, politics, gender roles and Zhu doing questionable things to achieve what she believes is her destiny.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

hollowhallow13's review against another edition

adventurous dark medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, War, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Grief, Death, Ableism, and Animal death

abitbetterbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, War, Torture, Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Medical content, Misogyny, Vomit, Gore, Violence, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, and Murder

Minor: Slavery

cantfindmybookmark's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.25

It’s as good as the hype would lead you to believe. First of all, it’s super 𝑺𝑼𝑷𝑬𝑹 queer. Like, honestly the queer rep brought me so much joy. Which brings me to my second point - this book will not bring you much joy. It would be generous to say the MCs are morally gray. They are dark and their motivations are far from benevolent. The choices they make will make you want to throw the book across the room. Despite this, or maybe because of it, you root for them  because honestly their motivations are no worse than anyone else’s. 

Quick Synopsis: The novel is set in 14th century China, during the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty and the Red Turban Rebellions. In a famine stricken village two siblings are given two very different prophecies for their futures. The boy is destined for greatness. The girl for nothingness. But then the boy, named Zhu Chongba, dies. The girl, struggling just to survive, assumes his identity and his fated greatness. 

Meanwhile, Ouyang, a man of Han decent who was castrated and enslaved by the Mongolians as a child, plots his revenge. As an adult he serves as a general beside Esen, the Mongolian prince that he served as a child. And his fate becomes inextricably intertwined with Zhu’s as the two serve under opposing forces: Zhu for the Red Turban Rebellion and Ouyang for the Mongolian Empire. 

If you are at all curious about this book, if you like complicated and morally gray characters who make awful choices, if you want a book that explores gender and sexuality in interesting ways, I highly recommend this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, and Ableism

mnkeemagick's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-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

4.0

What a cool read. A dark reimagining of the birth of an empire, holding no punches as it informs along the way. 

There's a substantial amount of cultural and historical information, the harsh realities represented beautifully and without pause, with just enough fantastical elements to make it shine the brighter. Can't wait to check out the next one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, Sexism, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

leanne_miron's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Misogyny, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Dysphoria, Ableism, Toxic friendship, Grief, and Sexual content