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prosenheim's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Moderate: Genocide, Child abuse, Gore, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Violence, Blood, and Physical abuse
Minor: Self harm
kimapede's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- 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
4.75
Graphic: Child death, Medical trauma, Self harm, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content
Moderate: Child abuse, Genocide, Confinement, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, and Vomit
chughes5's review
- 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? No
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Bullying, Dysphoria, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Body horror, Racism, and War
bobbi's review
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Racism
Moderate: Death, Child abuse, Torture, and Child death
perditorian's review
- 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
Graphic: Xenophobia and Blood
Moderate: Gore, Child abuse, Dysphoria, and Physical abuse
skudiklier's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Blood, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Medical content, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, and Body horror
Moderate: Genocide and War
Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Vomit
theirgracegrace's review
- 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? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Dysphoria, Genocide, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Self harm, Torture, Body horror, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Racism, Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Medical content, War, Bullying, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Police brutality, Classism, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Vomit and Transphobia
jjjreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Vomit, Dysphoria, Genocide, Hate crime, Bullying, Child death, Grief, War, Xenophobia, Gore, Death, Blood, Body horror, Self harm, Violence, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Outing, Police brutality, and Racism
booksthatburn's review against another edition
Graphic: Dysphoria
Moderate: Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, and Death
Minor: Child abuse, Genocide, Excrement, Self harm, and Death of parent
anxiousnachos's review
4.0
I also very much appreciated the way queerness, especially transness, was woven into the magic of the story. The way transitioning was handled in the magic system, the style of introducing yourself, I loved this.
I definitely think it could have worked really well as a longer novel, it is such a richly built world with very detailed political, historical and magical systems but I think Jamina did well to fit in a lot of content about the world and history and politics in such a short book. Would love to read more work in this world!
Content warnings: Blood and gore, medical content, mass death/plague, body horror, colonisation, assault, poverty, self harm (for magic), refugee crisis, genocide, racism (particularly medical racism), body dysphoria, physical child abuse (past), death, graphic descriptions of corpses
Graphic: Gore, Self harm, Genocide, Racism, Dysphoria, Medical content, Death, Body horror, Colonisation, Child abuse, Child death, and Blood