Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

77 reviews

nebulous_tide's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-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

My favourite book of this series (so far)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use and Grief

ritabriar's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This series takes another turn, this time with only a tenuous connection to the crew from book #1. (One of the families in the story is related to the captain of the ship.) 

This book is an in-depth study of society, how it's structured, and how we care for and neglect each other. 

At the same time, it has rich, well-developed characters who each have their own personalities. The seemingly-unrelated stories of each do intersect and affect each other, resulting in major life changes for many of them. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Explosion of a colony space ship happens in the introduction, but it forms the historical setting of other events. Death is of

a point of view character

due to

accidental air-pressure explosion

Cultural gatekeeping, both to an outside academic and someone trying to re-connect to his cultural heritage

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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

Explore human culture after becoming a space faring species out of necessity for generations, and then a species split between planed and the ships wee survived on. A scifi slice of life: Another excellent read in this series exploring the many aspects of being human. I loved this as much as Chambers' other books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

compassrosa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Death, and Grief

plantdonut's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Drug use, Racism, Medical content, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Minor: Cancer, Hate crime, Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and War

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Drug use, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Minor: Vomit, Toxic friendship, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

gabydoesgrowth's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Minor: Racism

amyreh's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Xenophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual content, Colonisation, and War

24carrotgay's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

Becky went and did it again!! This book was intriguing and challenging and hopeful and sad and so very human.

The Exodans have a soft spot in my heart now! I was also just overjoyed to see them continue to embrace their heritage and culture as they adapted. I absolutely love how this was explored as a whole through multiple perspectives and also individually by five (turned four 😢) perspectives.

 Record of a Spaceborn Few is beautiful, challenging, heartwarming, and cozy, as all of the Wayfarers series have been. I’m so excited to continue the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

bme244's review against another edition

emotional reflective relaxing medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Bullying, Sexual content, Violence, Colonisation, and War