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systemof5's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, and Slavery
Moderate: Ableism and Physical abuse
Minor: Drug use and Infertility
lindsayreads21's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, and Slavery
Moderate: Ableism and Animal death
Minor: Infertility
rororow'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? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Animal death and Child death
Minor: Ableism, Confinement, Deadnaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail
linblythe_pub22's review against another edition
- 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
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
biobeetle's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Dysphoria
Moderate: Ableism and Panic attacks/disorders
prufrockpreptooth's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism, Child death, Death, Infertility, Slavery, Medical content, and Colonisation
eni_iilorak's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Slavery, Abandonment, and Dysphoria
Moderate: Child death, Drug use, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Cursing, Gun violence, Infertility, Sexual content, and Colonisation
maeverose's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
2.75
I love her other books, but so far this series is not working for me and I’m considering dnfing it. I was so bored. I didn’t really care for Sidra’s storyline at all, even though I typically love sentient AI stories. Jane’s pov was far more interesting, but I really didn’t like her narrative voice. Her constant categorizing of things into ‘good’ ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’, saying something is ‘real ___’ over and over, her angsty teen phase… It made complete sense for her character but it was overdone and got very annoying for me to read.
As well, it really bothers me how gender is handled in this series. Becky Chambers handles it much better in the Monk and Robot series (though it’s still not perfect). I think it was probably unintentional, but in this book and in small angry planet, she always strictly ties gender to biological sex. There’s an alien species that has four sexes, so they use different pronouns for each of those sexes, but none of the characters identify as trans, and when it comes to most species it’s treated as a given that they just identify as a man or woman based on their biological sex. They always rely on someone’s physical characteristics to judge what pronouns to use.
I wish I liked this series but I just don’t
Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Medical content
Moderate: Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Eating disorder, Gore, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Excrement
Graphic: dog death and eating of dogs (it’s mentioned very often) Moderate: explosion (that killed people) Minor: not an actual eating disorder but someone has to skip meals to survive and ends up extremely thin and malnourished.skrulls's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Child abuse and Slavery
Moderate: Ableism
Minor: Drug use
theatrealpaca's review against another edition
- 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
Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail