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Lui che annegò il mondo by Shelley Parker-Chan

81 reviews

peachmoni's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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erika_schmidtwestfall's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Omg this book - it’s incredible but extremely dark. I liked the first book in the duology more, but maybe that’s partially because this book is *so* grim. The characters do such horrible things, and there were parts of this book that were extremely hard to read.

But the gender chat, the queer chat, the patriarchy chat, the writing, the push/pull between desire and suffering, ambition and grief — all immaculate.

I think this book has way more fantasy elements than the first one, and I really enjoyed the system the author set up.

Amazing work. Hard to read. Maybe it should be 5 stars, but putting 4.75 just bc my god some of this is rough.

Make sure to check the triggers on this one.

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banksy200's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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

AMAZING. I loved the first book and this only built on it. Raises challenging issues but is done so so well. Highly recommend this book and duology for people who enjoy the more bloody and violent side of fantasy (the poppy war I'm looking at you), while also providing new sides to history which aren't really covered in mainstream education (I'm from the UK). I love the writing style and pretty much everything about this book.

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cyprassy's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging inspiring 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: No

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ashley_mrose530's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional 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: Yes

This was a great conclusion to this duology.
I really liked the critiques of gender in this series and how most of the main characters all fall somewhere in the middle of the gender spectrum and how that plays into their lives and their personalities as well as the culture and society around them. I liked how that brought the characters together simply because of their uniqueness.
I also loved getting to watch Zhu achieve everything she was reaching for. She literally wanted to change the world and she succeeded and it was glorious to watch.
I think I said this for the previous book, but it was also amazing to see what she would do in order to achieve her goal. She was not going to let anything get in her way no matter how immoral it might have been and I admired that.
I do think this book kept my attention a little bit more than the first one, but it was still fairly difficult to get through and I think that is mostly due to not being able to differentiate the character's names as well as the many sudden POV switches. The distant nature of the writing probably also contributed to that, but I think most of it was the character names for me. I'm sure it would have been much easier to differentiate them if I was reading a physical copy of the book rather than listening though.
Overall this was a good series. I loved the themes and the critiques, I just wish I felt closer to the characters in general.

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virginiaduan's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT A FUCKING ENDING YESSSSSSS YESSSSSSSS

SUBVERT THE WHOLE FUCKING GENRE YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Oh, the exquisite pain of reading writing so good that you are simultaneously exultant you're in a timeline that allows you to read such truth and yet despairing you can never write like them and capture that same feeling.

Just fantastic. Brilliant. So beautiful and true and as;dlfkjasl;kdfjaksldfjaskdfjdask

THIS DUOLOGY IS EVERYTHING!!

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saffronique's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Fantastic conclusion to the duology that expands upon the characters of the previous book as well as exploring new POVs.

Very flowery prose if you're not into that, but if you are its very well done and a delight to read. I enjoyed this series so much, I really couldn't reccomend it enough.

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sephiefoxx's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

“But Zhu would be emperor; not despite who she was, but because of it”

This may be one of the most spectacular sequels I have ever read.

I was incredibly impressed by 'She Who Became the Sun' when I read it last year - it earning its place as my favourite of the Sapphic Trifecta. But this, this went well beyond my adoration of the first book.

Every second I spent with this book, every page I read, I was hooked back into this world of complex and morally ambiguous characters. Because that is truly where this series, as a whole, thrives. This book offers a veritable feast of complex and ambitious POV characters who each hold within them a pain and grief that drives them near as much as their ambition and goals. I shed tears with these characters, I followed them through their darkest actions and their deepest wells of pain - all because of deep character writing that is honestly masterful.

This duology was simply fantastic and I will likely be crying about the second to last page for some time.

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