Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold

13 reviews

mizelse's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Chronic illness, and Body shaming

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia

batesbarb's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Sexual harassment, and Misogyny

Moderate: Cancer, Terminal illness, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Infertility, Animal cruelty, and Death

mzfrop's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-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

4.25

Lovely and skillful prose with a competent yet self-effacing narrator I almost immediately found endearing. The plot gathers momentum steadily and by midpoint has started rolling very quickly and gratifyingly. Denouement was a bit predictable, but carried through by the satisfaction of seeing everyone get their happy ending. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Rape

nekoshka's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Misogyny, Animal death, Mental illness, and Violence

Minor: War, Sexual assault, and Rape

pvbobrien'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Animal death, Homophobia, Medical content, Misogyny, and Violence

Minor: Murder, War, Rape, Child death, Domestic abuse, and Infertility

gothnailcare's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.25

I read this directly after The Hallowed Hunt and I wish I hadn't; it made me dislike both of the books more for feeling like they were variations on the same formula. I generally enjoy drawn-out political intrigue, but I felt like this book's magic/speculative elements diminished rather than augmented the courtly drama, and I found myself a bit disappointed that much of the negotiation that was apparently so central to this book's political machinations took place entirely off screen. I continue to be more impressed by the World of the Five Gods' worldbuilding than I am the moment-to-moment scenes of these books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Animal death, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, and Child abuse

claredragonfly's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

Minor: Rape

sheru's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Animal death, and Child death

Minor: Sexual assault

natcat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-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? Yes

4.0

I love Bujold’s writing, I think she writes great people, and has a really keen eye for asking what drives people, and what makes us people, and what makes people strive to be the best they can, and ruminations on faith (in people, in causes, in gods). Her characters are vivid, and her characters here are no different; I love Cazaril as both character and perspective, and I love everyone else too. Her worldbuilding is also fantastic, and the weaving of the setting and the politics and particularly the theology of this book is so good. This is a fantasy book but the magic is reserved for the gods and is very subtle, and mostly this book is about politics and people and faith, and it is excellent.

I started rereading this book on a whim just for a couple of scenes, and ended up staying up too late and reading the whole book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, and Slavery

sylda's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Infertility, and Sexual harassment