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She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

55 reviews

evelphysicist's review against another edition

adventurous 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

I really enjoyed the narrative style, most of the characters and pacing of this book. The story follows 2 characters though, and the second is considerably less compelling than the first. Although this offered perspectives that allow the reader to view the story in a more holistic way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Racism, Violence, Physical abuse, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, Child death, Child abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Ableism, Animal cruelty, and Vomit

heuteschongekurtet's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Sexism, Vomit, Alcohol, Misogyny, Dysphoria, Grief, Infertility, Ableism, Animal death, and Cursing

rbeccamaec's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Sexual content, Torture, Grief, War, Ableism, Colonisation, Death, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Body shaming, Abandonment, Homophobia, Infidelity, and Racism

Minor: Animal death, Excrement, and Vomit

meganparfitt's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, War, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Cannibalism, Torture, Vomit, Excrement, Medical content, and Sexual content

jodean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

everyone should read this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Body horror, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Dysphoria, Death, Child death, War, Violence, Misogyny, Colonisation, Sexism, Body shaming, and Blood

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Toxic relationship, Slavery, Racism, Homophobia, Animal death, Trafficking, and Outing

Minor: Vomit and Excrement

ienbdri's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense 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? It's complicated

3.5

I am incredibly mad because I desperately wanted to love this book and just couldn't. The writing style and historical setting are beautiful and intriguing and the slow beginning and the monastery time really did it for me. The rest... not so much. For one, I was confused about what was going on for way too long. Sure it's fun to if you have to figure out motives and plans but at some point I want to have at least a small idea about what could possibly happen next. That didn't happen here. And not in the good, being-on-the-edge-of-your-seat kinda way, in the why-am-I-still-reading-this-and-who-the-hell-even-is-this-person-I-don't-remember-kinda-way. For a very short time I even cared for some people but they were either never mentioned again or worse. Concerning the two/three main characters, I honestly loved their personal stories in the beginning and then they all kinda just slowly morphed into these war and violence driven people without any individuality. I thought the queerness would carry me through this book but it honestly is a very questionable portrayal of these topics and every bit of warmth and intimacy is quickly extinguished by the plot. This book is about war and not about queerness and individuals but still tried to be and didn't do it well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, War, Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, Misogyny, Blood, Murder, Sexism, and Vomit

Minor: Slavery

ijustreallyliketrees's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

1.0

You ever read a book that was amazing reviews and wonder if you've somehow read a completely different book? That's what happened here to me.

Things I liked: the concept was cool and I enjoyed the first 50% of the story.
Things I didn't: this is a me thing but by the time we got to the 60% mark I found 2/3 of the main characters unlikeable. 

I really liked Zhu at first but then when her ambition took over and she straight up started murdering people that was it for me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child death and Misogyny

Minor: Vomit

memoriast's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-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? Yes

5.0

Truly an epic. Extremely immersive, emotionally devastating in the best way, and an amazing exploration of gender.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Racism, Alcohol, Child death, Murder, and Sexual content

Minor: Slavery, Excrement, Vomit, Cursing, Infidelity, Animal death, and Homophobia

ka_cam's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-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? Yes

4.25

Main character Zhu brings some
seriously power hungry she/he questing energy. I enjoyed the exploration of gender in Zhu and Ouyang’s body-mind experiences, and the ever lurking themes of trauma and social/cultural violence and oppression that (sometimes literally) haunts these characters. I felt parts of the book dragged or stalled, and the greater world building or depth of other characters (esp Ma) could have improved some of the slower parts. I’d have enjoyed more development of the ghosts or other spirit world elements but that’s just me. Will definitely be on the lookout for #2!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, War, Murder, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Torture, Sexual violence, and Slavery

Minor: Ableism, Sexual content, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

julesxyz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

this book had me hooked from the first page, it’s now my favorite istg this book is liquid gold to my eyes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Transphobia, Vomit, War, and Violence