Reviews tagging 'Dysphoria'

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

3 reviews

luis_vieira's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Murder, Violence, Domestic abuse, Gore, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Blood, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Cursing, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Slavery, Colonisation, Toxic relationship, Classism, Xenophobia, Confinement, Grief, Racism, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Abandonment, Cannibalism, Kidnapping, Vomit, War, Dysphoria, Alcohol, Rape, and Sexual content

lidia138's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Classism, Dysphoria, Slavery, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Violence

laine37's review against another edition

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

2.0

This book very quickly and effectively portrayed characters, such that a reader could get a good grasp on them swiftly. It was impressive and certainly the book's strongest facet. However, the book then doesn't do much with these established characters, they just stumble about through the plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Physical abuse, Dysphoria, Body horror, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, and Alcoholism