Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Долгий путь к маленькой сердитой планете by Becky Chambers

107 reviews

olma's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? No

3.5

I loved this character-driven story. It was fun to meet a diverse cast, but I also wished we got more time with each character. The biggest complaint I had was that the first third of the story was fairly slow, but it was engaging enough to keep going until it sped up. The ideas about space species and their interactions was really interesting and I liked the direction the author took with it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Xenophobia, War, and Racism

supergirled's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Death, Terminal illness, and Xenophobia

charlotteschapter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Violence, Terminal illness, and Chronic illness

Moderate: War, Racism, Medical content, and Xenophobia

Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, and Genocide

raxus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Racism, Terminal illness, and Drug use

Minor: Sexual content

dancers_and_dragons's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Racism, and Terminal illness

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Drug use, Religious bigotry, War, Blood, Medical content, Vomit, Animal death, and Colonisation

Fantasy/sci-fi racism and xenophobia is present with certain individuals, but not the whole, and is presented as a bad thing overall. Racism as is present in our own day-to-day society is not present.

kirstym25's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Xenophobia, Terminal illness, and Genocide

amphibianwitch's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

1.0

Me estaba planteando darle 3 estrellas a este libro. Está bien, la narración es entretenida, el wordbuilding es chulo y los personajes son interesantes. Ha habido ciertas cosas, como que la narración fuera tan parcial a favor de según que personajes o algunas partes de exposición que se me hicieron un poco rollo, pero lo normal.

Sin embargo, sí hay cosas que no puedo pasar por alto. Durante la lectura no me estaba dando la sensación de que el libro fuese muy trans-friendly ni nb-friendly, pero no estaba segura de ello. Desde luego no me ha parecido nada ace ni aro-friendly, y de hecho no se lo recomendaría a una persona arromántica ni asexual. Pero lo que me ha terminado de cabrear es una cosa que pasa casi al final y que se analiza en este artículo (en inglés) mejor de lo que lo podría explicar yo. Me ha parecido dañino y me es completamente imposible reconciliarme con esta lectura tras ello. Una pena.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Ableism, Vomit, Acephobia/Arophobia, Terminal illness, War, Drug use, and Alcohol

helalost's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Death, and Xenophobia

Minor: Gun violence

razzberry_pi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.5

really great found family story with just enough tension to keep it interesting. 

lots of interesting ethics and parallels to the real world in terms of religions, police brutality, xenophobia and more. 

some of the ethical problems especially related to

medical autonomy of a character

are not handled in the best way, but overall pretty good

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War

Moderate: Police brutality, Violence, Grief, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, and Xenophobia

Minor: Sexual content

akincses1992's review against another edition

challenging funny lighthearted slow-paced

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

1.0

Great characters but too long and not worth the read. Any conflict is resolved too quick and too neat. It’s almost 500 pages and nothing happens. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Violence, Terminal illness, Alcohol, and Chronic illness

Minor: Xenophobia, Cursing, and War