Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

23 reviews

kitkathy24's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Grief

Moderate: Addiction, Colonisation, Classism, and Genocide

scifi_rat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Colonisation, and Death

Moderate: Murder, Xenophobia, Addiction, Blood, Drug abuse, Medical content, Slavery, Genocide, Religious bigotry, Violence, War, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

jackie_marion's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Drug abuse, Blood, Xenophobia, Violence, War, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Kept me pleasantly confused for a long time and then absolutely delivered with its explanations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Colonisation

Moderate: Blood, Religious bigotry, Medical content, Drug abuse, Death, Addiction, Genocide, War, and Body horror

lbelow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense

5.0

An excellent book. I understand why it's gotten so many accolades! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Alcohol, Addiction, Violence, Gun violence, Murder, Classism, Cursing, Blood, Body horror, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Death

rystonlentil43's review against another edition

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

4.0

This is like 90% politics, which was fine with me as it's building out a rich, complex world. The audiobook was read very well, including the singing :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism and Colonisation

Moderate: Genocide, Gun violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and War

Minor: Addiction

chrisreads52's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

violerwolf's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I absolutely adored this story. Truly gripping in how it navigates the politics of the military industrial complex through both the characters within and the literal instrument of that complex: the ancillaries. One Esk is a fascinating character to follow and I love how we split between these two storylines, One Esk’s current mission with Seiverdan and One Esk’s past on Ors. The way the memory weaves together with the present day, highlighting the themes and dynamics in both, really made the story feel in conversation with itself. I do think the ending is a bit anticlimactic, but I often find that books I really love have disappointing endings. Definitely give this a read still though! I’m super excited to start the sequels.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Classism, Grief, Kidnapping, Xenophobia, Confinement, Genocide, War, Colonisation, Murder, Violence, Death, Drug abuse, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Medical content and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Alcohol, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Suicide

This whole book is about imperialism and colonialism and all of the horror that comes with that. The writing isn’t super vivid for a lot of these, but the book doesn’t shy away from discussing these topics. I’d like to say another TW for loss of control/bodily autonomy.

alatarmaia's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

What a personal reset for me in terms of sci-fi. I've rarely loved something so instantly. THIS is the pinnacle of multi-timeline stories, where the past events unfold as a silent shadow of the present, laying out how we got here. Breq is Thee character of all time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery and Death

petrel's review against another edition

adventurous reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Gun violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Addiction, Religious bigotry, Genocide, and Murder