Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

30 reviews

wrensleyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

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

4.75

This must be the most arrogant author I've ever read - and it is well-earned!  The world is deep and immersive and exhausting and tragic and terrifying.  You'll find yourself dragged into New Crobuzon and unable to extricate yourself.  You'll be wrung out with no place to dry and you'll lap it up and ask for more.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Self harm, and Police brutality

barium_squirrel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

owenthetyley's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Rape, Kidnapping, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Drug abuse, Pedophilia, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Minor: Abortion

sf_book_cat's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? It's complicated

5.0

Amazing book, so creative. Fantastic world-building almost better than anything I’ve ever read before.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Sexual content

bennyfelds's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Torture

rartastic's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

This review sums up my feelings pretty well: https://ucsdguardian.org/2015/04/01/fully-booked-china-mievilles-perdido-street-station/

Also a quote from someone else that he tries to give us too much breadth in the book, so he ends up twisting characters into things they wouldn’t normally do. 

I got tired of how gross and dark the city was. There was some deus ex machina toward the end that I found annoying. 

It felt like it was trying to be a new Ankh Morpork/Discworld. But it was way darker and worse. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Violence

Moderate: Death, Drug use, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Torture, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail

silvae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fatphobia, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Terminal illness

foxmulders's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.25

oy vey… this came highly rated and recommended by sff audiences but this was an utter miss for me. i think i would have enjoyed this if we spent more time on the interpersonal lives of lin and isaac and yag. the slake-moth stuff felt like a 400+ page slog through a monster of the week tv show filler episode. the initial story - about forbidden love and an outsider seeking to regain flight - had promise but falls apart entirely in the end chapters. overall disappointing. the treatment of lin in particular felt pointless and unnecessary in its cruelty. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Drug abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

alexhaydon's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence