Reviews tagging 'Torture'

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson

12 reviews

aileron's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Colonisation, War, Xenophobia, Cancer, Death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Animal cruelty, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Animal death, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

Minor: Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, and Xenophobia

beebalm's review

dark tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Here I am getting obsessed with another 4 book series that was supposed to be a trilogy with no release timeline for the finale....

I don't know how he did it, but Seth has clearly done his research, used beta readers, etc to capture all kinds of queerness and how that interacts with the Empire. 

So glad to see

Baru finally realizing that its okay to be a gay woman and seemingly coming to a way to actually finish her goal.

I also really liked seeing

her parents return as characters and also seeing the Mbo sideplot finally connect back to the present day plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Colonisation, Body horror, Lesbophobia, Violence, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

ferlefur's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

Simply wonderful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Death, Medical content, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Child death, Genocide, Cancer, and Gore

Moderate: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Gun violence, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Blood, Colonisation, Drug use, Slavery, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Incest, Death of parent, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pedophilia

bearpolar's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

• 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: Cancer and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Lesbophobia, Torture, and Homophobia

Minor: Medical content

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Hate crime, Transphobia, Cultural appropriation, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Violence, Alcohol, Cannibalism, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Colonisation, Drug use, Racism, Torture, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Blood, Body shaming, Chronic illness, Classism, Confinement, Trafficking, and War

librarianmage's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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: Colonisation, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Transphobia, Torture, Homophobia, and Sexual content

pineapplesurvivor's review

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Cancer, Homophobia, Colonisation, Violence, and War

Moderate: Gore, Body horror, Sexism, Classism, Violence, Genocide, Torture, Medical content, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Grief, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Torture, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Blood, Cannibalism, Confinement, Genocide, and Cultural appropriation

eagoldberg's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Lesbophobia, Torture, Homophobia, Medical content, Cancer, Confinement, Genocide, and Racism

Moderate: Body shaming, Misogyny, Sexual content, and Transphobia

gilroi's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Abortion, Violence, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Transphobia, Medical trauma, Cancer, Torture, Grief, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Gore, Gaslighting, Drug use, Death, Cursing, Classism, Physical abuse, Miscarriage, Homophobia, Genocide, and Emotional abuse

fictionalportal's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? Yes

5.0

What an absolute banger of a book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Racism, Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual content, Cancer, Child death, and Drug use

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Sexual violence

Contains

graphic depictions of surgery and frequent discussion of eugenics