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A review by relin
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Medical content, Murder, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, and Mental illness
Moderate: Cursing, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, and Vomit
Minor: Cannibalism, Eating disorder, and Physical abuse
Due to how necromancers work in this world, there is a lot of detailed descriptions of death, blood, and gore. Sometimes the blood/flesh of other people, most frequently their own in order to interact with bones and spirits. There is one description of a character that tied power to an eating disorder, but mentioned in passing.
Medical trauma, terminal illness and cancer go together in one character though mainly used to demonstrate how difficult it is to kill her.
All onscreen violence is either fighting skeletons/raised dead, sword fighting/melee, or a combination of both (and training montages).
All the children in one house die so that they could guarantee having a pregnancy with a necromancer.