Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

9 reviews

michaelmarshall's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Xenophobia

etosaurus's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Dysphoria, Violence, Xenophobia, Animal death, Body horror, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Cancer, Animal cruelty, Confinement, and Grief

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Colonisation

qwends's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Child abuse

groenling's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? No

5.0

This is everything. Consciousness and reality and the whole universe, and at the same time deeply human and empathetic. My mind is blown.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia and Bullying

evelphysicist's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

Overall a good final instalment to the trilogy but doesn’t really hit the mark like the previous 2 did for me. But I loved the other 2 so this is still good! The newly introduced species are fresh and interesting, but neither are really ever a focus. 

There are points the book becomes bogged down in philosophical rambling. The points are good, but the same ones are made so many times without a new conclusion. I would say this more than anything is what pulled the book down for me. That and

the neurodiversity metaphor becomes  too on the nose for me. I say this as some with adhd who initially found the neurodiversity depictions  quite a cute caricature, but the more explicit he made the point the more clumsy it became in my opinion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Gun violence, Incest, and Physical abuse

Minor: Pregnancy, Confinement, Alcoholism, Child abuse, and Death of parent

mar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective 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

5.0

something incredibly endearing about one of the greatest science fiction novels ive ever read also being a bit of a love letter to fantasy. ough

o|-< (self portrait of me taking a break from this book to lie on the floor and have an existential crisis contemplating the nature of life and sentience and consciousness)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Body horror, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Violence

includes a moderately graphic depiction of a lynching

janisgoblin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Xenophobia, and Child death

iono's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

Loved the first two books in the series, but this third book felt like pointless nonsense that doesn't need to exist. This series should have ended as a duology.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia

Moderate: Violence, Child death, and Death of parent

antifuchs's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Child death, and Xenophobia