Reviews tagging 'Domestic abuse'

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin

5 reviews

thewileyseven's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

I would give it more than five stars if I could. The stunning finale to easily the most beautiful, captivating, thoughtful, enticing, and important trilogy of modern SFF. I am just blown away by the world created in these books and the way it has so irrevocably changed mine. Cannot recommend these highly enough. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Colonisation, and War

kaimetcalfe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Slavery, Torture, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Murder, and Pregnancy

drips's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

a few tiny plot holes nagged at me but overall it's a beautiful heart wrenching conclusion to the trilogy. what a pleasure to raze through a series in a week again (and so much food for thought to boot! i'll probably read these again one day, maybe in paperback)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Slavery, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and War

Minor: Cursing and Vomit

some_random_person_hi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense

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

4.75

As the ending of the series, it more than delivered, with some of if not the best worldbuilding I have ever seen in my life (the other books in the series also had really good worldbuilding but this one took it to the next level) and everything is wrapped up better than I thought possible. The character arcs & relationships between characters are really well written and I got emotional at quite a few points. Only issue with the book was that a couple chapters dragged a little but overall one of the best books I have ever read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, and Colonisation

elly29's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

Eh, there was a lot going on. I think the book's purpose -- to challenge structures of power in a fantastical alternate world, that we see mirrored in our own world -- is excellent. The feelings were real. Essun as a character was interesting and grew.

But, Nassun was the worst. Reading her chapters was a slog, for me.

The comm-in-exile was difficult and sad. Hoa's character was great, and his history was great, except his motivations were paltry at the end. And we still don't know how he ended up in the garnet obelisk. (Is there a novella or something available??)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Sexual content