Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi

5 reviews

eleanora's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Sexual content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Car accident, Colonisation, Death, Alcohol, Infidelity, Vomit, and Body shaming

qwerty88's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Murder

Moderate: Colonisation

blacksphinx's review against another edition

adventurous 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

2.5

This book was pitched to me as an anti-colonial heist. And while there is a heist, and some pages of scathing rage about the plunder on display in British museums, the vast majority of this book is a nonlinear romance between an Orisha and a fallen angel. Also Aleister Crowley is here for some reason, but at least the author remembered he was bi? There is very little on-page prep for the heist and it goes by extremely quickly when it finally happens. There were some beautiful moments (who knew you could make a board meeting crackle) but it lacked both the social commentary bite (anti-capitalism was right there!) and the character moments I was looking for.

There's also a very uncomfortable chapter where our only female character of note uses her succubus powers on a unwilling man to have sex with him then eat his soul, from his perspective. Pure nightmare fuel that also left a bad taste in my mouth. 

It was still wildly inventive and I will be reading future works by this author, but this wasn't for me. If you're a romantasy girlie who can handle immoral characters and are looking for something with the scales tipped more on the fantasy side, especially if you're looking for Black characters, you might want to give this a shot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Body horror, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcohol, Blood, Racism, Sexism, and Confinement

Minor: Colonisation, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Car accident

One of our main characters is a succubus who seduces people then eats them. This process is described in detail from the perspective of a totally unwilling victim.

ninjamuse's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Gore

Minor: Body horror

uranaishi's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Colonisation, Homophobia, Alcohol, Body shaming, Murder, Classism, Car accident, Racism, Kidnapping, Blood, and Vomit

Minor: Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, War, Cultural appropriation, Misogyny, Infidelity, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Cursing, and Domestic abuse