Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Actual Star by Monica Byrne

14 reviews

leighwilliams's review against another edition

challenging informative mysterious reflective medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Blood, Self harm, Sexual content, Death, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

beccaand's review

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective slow-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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Incest, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Child death

Minor: Terminal illness

cleo_wylde's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

Loved the world the author has conceptualised and how it all comes together. A book that tries very hard to hit lots of points and overall succeeds.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Murder, Self harm, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Incest, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

cadimy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Sexual content

Minor: Death, Vomit, Drug use, Gore, and Abandonment

bailey_the_bookworm's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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

5.0

This book! Wow. It melted my brain in the best way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Self harm, Violence, Death, and Incest

Minor: Terminal illness

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Self harm, Sexual content, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, and Gore

Minor: Terminal illness

krys_kilz's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This book blew me away! The world building was awe inspiring and each of the characters were complex and multifaceted. And how the three timelines braided together to create a multi-generational saga... it was powerful and truly mind blowing.

I could see parallels to Octavia's Earthseed books with god as entropy, Ursula K. Le Guin (especially The Dispossessed) with the questioning/challenging of utopia, and so many other influences.

This is probably one of my favorite books I have ever read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Self harm, and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence and Death

Minor: Terminal illness

nikichem's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative reflective tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

I finished this book and immediately started to reread it. I loved it so much but once you know how it ends you want to go back and enjoy all the Easter Eggs. I have been recommending this book like crazy. In each of the first three chapters, there were things that were shocking. I loved the ending. I loved the beginning and I loved the middle. I am not writer; I am a reader and this is the 1st book I can recall starting to read it again as soon as I finished it the 1st time. If you like speculative fiction, Slipstream, Science-Fantasy, Genre Blending, Visionary, Historical check this out it will change the way you view humanity. This book gave me Octavia Butler vibes and it also reminds me some of Cloud Cuckoo Land only based in Belize and with a span of 2000 years (1012 to 3012).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Incest, Sexual content, Torture, and Abandonment

Moderate: Violence, Child death, Gore, Physical abuse, Blood, Classism, and Death

Minor: War, Classism, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Religious bigotry

aclaman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Child death, Terminal illness, Suicide, Sexual content, Murder, Incest, and Death

buntatamilis's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Death, and Incest