Reviews tagging 'Classism'

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

16 reviews

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

While I was disappointed at first not to return to the crew of the Wayfarer, it didn't last long. I greatly enjoyed getting to know Lovelace as she settles into her new life outside of a ship framework, and enjoyed exploring the troubling survival story of a small girl created for one purpose until accidentally unmoored from it. I adored the ending as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Blood, Medical content, Abandonment, and Classism

plantainicus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.5

This book is everything the first one wasn’t, and the first was already great. We get a nice little 2 for 1 story deal here and we get to explore different topics than the first. 4.5/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Slavery, Grief, Dysphoria, and Classism

Moderate: Drug use, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

alexisdawn's review against another edition

dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Blood

Moderate: Slavery and Classism

Minor: Infertility

kastix's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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

Graphic: Child abuse, Dysphoria, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Slavery, Blood, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Death, Infertility, Excrement, Medical content, and Medical trauma

_david_'s review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

This story was very different than the first part of the series. There was more focus on two main characters rather than an entire crew. Although the story felt less special/unique than the first book to me, I did enjoy reading it a lot.

I enjoyed the short chapters, it made the book a real page turner. It was a very heartwarming story about purpose and hope with plenty of frustration in between. I liked how the book ended as well. To me the highlight of the book was the chapter when they're in a ship with Tak. It made me "wow" out loud. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Slavery, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Religious bigotry, and Medical trauma

Minor: Deadnaming and Infertility

A description of hunger/food discipline/an underweight body is given because of tough survival conditions.

linblythe_pub22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Alcohol, and Dysphoria

Minor: Ableism, Gun violence, Infertility, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

miles's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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

Once again, absolutely in love. Devoured this baby in less than a week. 

I’m an absolute sucker for an AI/android story due to Detroit: Become Human forever altering my brain and gah do I love this one!! There are two timelines and two different, but intertwining, stories to follow with two different (and yet very similar) AIs. One of them has just been housed in an illegal synthetic body because even this far in the future, AIs are only seen as tools and are not allowed to have autonomous bodies, even the sentient ones. Of course this throws up a lot of questions and ethics and shit to ponder and this book has some veeeeery good bits on that. Absolutely bloody loved it. And this book healed the part of my heart the first one so rudely ripped out so that was very nice as well. 

I love that Chambers goes into more detail of other cultures/societies that were only briefly touched upon in Long Way.  Again, love the world-building. Can’t wait to read the rest!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Slavery

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Child death

queersicles's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.25

The narrative splits between the intense and harrowing journey of a human born to be a child laborer and an AI who has been uploaded into a body kit. The ending was a bit of a letdown, found it resolved in a "shit I have a deadline and want to just trie things up in a bow without actually resolving the main themes and challenges of the book" 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, and Classism

sulinde's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

A by turns charming, riveting and heartbreaking portrait of someone learning how to feel at home in themselves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Dysphoria, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, and Injury/Injury detail

analenegrace's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

This was a great follow-up to the first in the series! Sidra was a character I was excited to see the future of from the little bit of the first one, and getting to know Pepper and Blue, especially Pepper's past was so wonderful. Chambers' ability to write deeply emotional and realistic characters in this universe of aliens and humans off of earth is so fantastic. I can't wait to read the rest of the series! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Medical trauma, and Classism