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avacadosocks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, and Colonisation
Moderate: Addiction and Drug abuse
Minor: Body horror
julesadventurezone's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and War
linda_wolf's review against another edition
- 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? No
4.5
Minor: Addiction, Death, and Gun violence
sincetheflood's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Colonisation
Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Genocide
Minor: Body horror, Vomit, and Grief
lbelow's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
rystonlentil43's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Colonisation and Classism
Moderate: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Addiction
chrisreads52's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail
mes0pelagic_fan's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, and Classism
Minor: Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit
crufts's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
With Breq's unisex pronoun use, I automatically pictured a lot of characters as having female-typical appearances, in conflict with occasional notes of description that they had beards, broad shoulders, deep voices and so on. This made it more difficult to tell characters apart, since this common distinguishing feature (i.e. social gender) was absent from the narration. But even though it made the characters harder to follow, I still think it was a cool worldbuilding idea.
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Murder, and War
Moderate: Slavery and Trafficking
Minor: Rape and Sexual assault
Gun violence, Violence, Murder, Death: Several lethal fights occur on-screen, many of them involving sci-fi guns.War: The continual action of the expansionist Radch empire.
Slavery, Trafficking: Arguably, the ancillaries are "slaves", but they do not feel this way since they are inhabited by the minds of the Radch spaceship AIs (the original minds being long gone).
Sexual assault and rape: Mentioned as having occurred during wartime, not in detail.
alatarmaia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death and Slavery