Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky

9 reviews

michaelmarshall's review

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, Xenophobia, and Murder

etosaurus's review

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

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

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Colonisation

qwends's review

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: Bullying and Xenophobia

evelphysicist's review

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, Xenophobia, and Murder

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

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

mar's review

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: Body horror, Death, Xenophobia, and Murder

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

includes a moderately graphic depiction of a lynching

janisgoblin's review

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: Child death, Xenophobia, and Death of parent

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: Child death, Violence, and Death of parent

antifuchs's review

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: Child death, Violence, and Xenophobia