Reviews tagging 'Blood'

The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

56 reviews

troisha's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Gore, Slavery, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, and Medical trauma

Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, and Abortion

carissa230's review against another edition

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

4.25

 Essun is settling into Castrima, but she hasn't forgotten about Nassun. Essun is working with Alabaster to try and save the world from the Fifth Season.

Nassun is working on learning to control her orogeny and magic. Nassun is making some difficult and hard to understand decisions.

The book is a pretty classic middle of a series book. There is a lot going on, but not much happening. The book is building up for book 3 and I can't wait to see the conclusion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Racism, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent

blakethebookeater's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

This book was such a great follow up to the epic Fifth Season.

I’m not going to say much in this review for fear of spoilers, but just know that the narrative gets more and more interesting and you get both answers to questions you didn’t realize you had...and even more questions.

The characters continue to be standouts, with Essun’s story continuing to be outstanding, as well as the new POVs of Schaffa and Nassun. The way these characters’ stories are woven is nothing short of stellar.

I did feel like this book did suffer from some slow pacing, and the action wasn’t as compelling as the first book, but the mysteries contained here are more than enough to compensate.

Overall, I’m so excited to go into reading the finale and can’t wait to see how it ends!

4/5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Genocide, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Blood

yrioona's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

3.0

Not quite as great as the first book, but still compelling and immersive fantasy/sci fi that carries the massive plot forward and builds its world and characters beautifully. I found some of the prose and dialogue clunky, including a sentence here and there that felt like something an editor should have caught, and I thought some of the narrative got lost in abstraction while Jemisin/the narrator is describing the elaborate magic system(s) at work. I also missed the huge scope and sweeping movement of The Fifth Season, since most of The Obelisk Gate takes place in just two settings. That said, I happily disappeared into this book and am excited to start on the next one in the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Genocide, Gore, Blood, and Grief

amelreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Child death

hanz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This series is still great, looking forward to the conclusion! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Grief