Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Bluebird by Ciel Pierlot

12 reviews

lpdx's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Gore, Blood, Vomit, Death, Drug use, Body horror, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Slavery, Violence, Torture, War, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Genocide, Confinement, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Addiction, Classism, Colonisation, Islamophobia, and Racism

lady_valhella's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense 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: Vomit, Drug use, Body horror, Medical trauma, Torture, Addiction, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Deadnaming, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Murder, and Medical content

yuyine's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

3.75

Bluebird est un joli concentré d’actions dans l’espace avec des héroïnes féminines intéressantes et attachantes. Cependant, le manque de nuances, en particulier dans l’univers, et l’enchaînement de rebondissements qui manquent un peu de subtilité en font une lecture sympathique mais qui ne marque pas forcément sur la durée.

Critique complète sur yuyine.be (https://yuyine.be/review/book/bluebird)!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Gun violence, and Torture

ijustreallyliketrees's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Drug use

Moderate: Blood and Medical content

Minor: Genocide, Medical trauma, and Torture

cassielaj's review

adventurous challenging dark funny hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I am not a sci-fi/fantasy gal, and I really enjoyed this! For a pretty involved world system in space, it wasn’t confusing or difficult to follow, and I really liked the characters and the plot. It’s dark and tense but also has a good bit of humor, which I love, and it also raises important questions about colonization, corruption, and autonomy. And I mean, Rig is basically a badass female Han Solo — what more could you want??

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Torture, Colonisation, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Cursing, Death, and Genocide

alyxinthestars's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Violence

Minor: Drug use, Slavery, Vomit, Torture, and Death of parent

rtaire's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• 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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Gore, Violence, Body horror, and Drug use

Moderate: Colonisation and Xenophobia

Minor: Genocide, Medical trauma, and Torture

beldaran1224's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.5

This book is a fun, cheeky space adventure. The author has a great style that manages to be dramatic and funny without being slow or overwrought. The book has an overall light tone, but there are a lot of serious things going on, so just be wary that the setting is heavily based around colonialism and war.

The ending

brings the rating down a bit for being a bit too "happy ever after". It actually ends up spoiling some of the more serious elements of the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation and Genocide

Moderate: Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, Kidnapping, and Classism

Minor: Abandonment, Torture, Medical content, Cultural appropriation, and Death of parent

lycanhood's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-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? N/A

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Torture, and Medical trauma

bluejayreads's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

4.5

An entertaining, action-filled, almost swashbuckling adventure in space, featuring a witty, reckless gunslinging smuggler who teams up with a very mysterious (and very scary) bounty hunter to save her sister from one of the three factions in a millennia-long war. There's tons of action, plenty of wit and wry humor, an interesting faction system (especially the mysterious Ossuary faction), deadly and uncatchabale assassins, and some surprisingly complex emotions. I appreciated the nuanced relationship between the protagonist and her sister and the slow friendship between the protagonist and the highly traumatized bounty hunter. And I really enjoyed having a relentlessly charismatic protagonist - I didn't realize how many of the books I've read lately have had quiet/shy/withdrawn protagonists until I found this breath of fresh air. Sure, if you look at it too hard a lot of the details fall apart, but this book isn't meant to be scrutinized. It's meant to be entertaining, and it very much succeeds at that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Gore, Medical content, War, and Torture

Minor: Drug use, Colonisation, Genocide, and Slavery

Medical abuse, brainwashing, fantasy racism, physical/mental/emotional abuse from an institution