Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

153 reviews

mo345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Colonisation, and Classism

spacebornfew's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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? Yes

3.5

This was a fun read but I think it was overhyped for me which maybe left me expecting a bit much. 

"Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space" is essentially what you get. That gothic palace holds a lot of the story together by creating a thoroughly immersive setting. After a slow first third, things do definitely get moving quickly (sometimes too quickly). Throughout I felt like we were teased by some great world building and I'm hoping we learn more about that in the second novel. I will say, the central relationship didn't really do it for me, I wasn't entirely convinced by the way it developed. In part I think because we don't get a lot of the backstory until very far into the book. 

Overall though, I did enjoy it! It devoloped into much more of a mystery than I was expecting and who doesn't want more women with swords?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide and Vomit

Minor: Slavery and War

czerny's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

3.75

Obsessed with the vibes… I am just incapable of reading fantasy without feeling like my brain is melting out of my ears from working overtime

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Body horror, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Minor: Vomit

kjoli's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer and Vomit

voxelbee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, and Terminal illness

Minor: Cursing, Genocide, Suicide, Vomit, Abandonment, and War

louise_o's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is just fucking insane in every way. No book has ever encapsulated yearning and angst and rage quite like this one. I don’t think I’ll ever find another book like it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

redkeys's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

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

5.0

lesbian space necromancers. delightfully macabre 10/10

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, and Cannibalism

jennalwiegand's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.75

Very very good, so many good funny moments while Also having
Heart wrenching sad ones. The character growth was impeccable. Also if you want an enemies to almost lovers this is a perfect fit! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Confinement, Terminal illness, and Medical content

Minor: Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Death of parent

miss_sunshine's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Gore, Self harm, Violence, Vomit, and Murder

mothie_girlie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Death of parent

Moderate: Chronic illness

Minor: Body horror and Vomit