Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

10 reviews

sgradycohen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Abandonment

rororow's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective fast-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: 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

cornfusedsnow's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Slavery, and Grief

Moderate: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infertility, Abandonment, and War

bokryp's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

An absolutely amazing book. Highly engaging characters, rich environments, and insightful interactions. Deeply touching story of liberation, found family, and self-determining ones purpose in life based on what you want for yourself. Some of the best representation of gender spectrum in a fiction book that I've ever read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

another_avid_bookreader's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring 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

I really enjoyed this kind-of-sequel. While there are some recurring characters, most are new or only met briefly. While I was a bit disheartened not to see some of the previous crew again, the new characters are interesting, develop well, and well-rounded.

The threads of plot join together well to the conclusion, and the themes were beautifully explored and well built upon from the first.

Oh, and love that the exploration of gender continue in this one.

All around, a very good follow up to the first book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Drug use

Minor: Abandonment

crimelessvictim's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Violence, and Medical trauma

andloveistoolong's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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

I enjoyed the first book in this series well enough, but this one was definitely a step up. It had a totally engrossing story, characters I fell in love with, basically the whole package.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Slavery, and Trafficking

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Drug use, Gore, Infertility, Medical content, and Dysphoria

overbooked207's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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? Yes

4.0

📖 A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers Book Review 📖

6th book of August and 23rd of the year:

The sequel to one of my all-time favorite books, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, this book follows an important character from the first book along with a whole new cast of great characters. It was heartfelt, inspiring, adventurous, and fun, had lyrical, atmospheric, and beautiful writing, complex and lovable characters, and queer, PTSD, disability, anxiety, and more representation, and it explored what it means to be human and the importance of community and togetherness. The series is still heavily character-based, which I love, but this installment had more action than the first, so people who enjoy more plot-based stories will enjoy that aspect of it. Personally, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is still my favorite in the series, but this was another amazing adventure, and I definitely recommend it and all other Becky Chambers' books! TW for PTSD, anxiety, abuse, animal death, ableism, child death, death, child abuse, drug use, vomit, violence, grief, gaslighting, injury/injury detail, captivity, slavery, mental illness, gore, blood, explosions/fire injury, mentions of sex, mentions of food, murder, and medical content📚🚀🔭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

hannahrogers's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, Alcohol, and Classism

toopunkrockforshul's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Loved this book, it had the perfect level of continuation for a sequel, while also exploring new characters and elements of the world. Really looking forward to reading more of this series and getting more expansion 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, and Grief