Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

46 reviews

laguerrelewis's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

If you’ve already started this series you know why it’s great. Everything I loved from The Fifth Season is expanded upon here, and new elements are just as excellent and appreciated. I’m picking up book three literally right now!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Violence, and War

Minor: Sexual content

maelikesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective relaxing slow-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

3.75

This book explores some amazing themes and is beautifully written. I love the characters and their dynamics and the commentary on love, parenthood and growing up in an oppressive world. However, the slow pace did make it harder to get through and enjoy it. I’m glad I read it, and I will be reading the final book in the trilogy, but it wasn’t the most enjoyable of reads.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Body horror, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, and Murder

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Sexual content

danielle_sips_tea's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, and Grief

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, Death of parent, Murder, and Violence

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

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

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: Murder, Blood, Racism, and Child death

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: Death of parent, Xenophobia, and Hate crime

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

Minor: Blood