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leweylibrary's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.75
AND CAN WE TALK ABOUT
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Medical trauma
hayleyham's review against another edition
- 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
2.25
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Vomit
omega's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Abandonment
kurumipanda's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Abandonment
Minor: Body horror, Drug use, Vomit, and Gaslighting
bespokecompost's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Abandonment
librarymouse's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Medical content
coatpocketcreature's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body horror and Grief
archaicrobin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
Gyre is underground in a cave on another planet fulfilling a very expensive, well paid, secretive caving job for her abrasive employer Em. As Gyre gets deeps into the cave things start going worse and worse. Soon sheâs struggling to not just survive, but to make it back to the surface in one piece.
This book had so much potential! I love survival horror, space horror, and caving stories because I find them so terrifying! This one had ghosts, weird alien worms called tunnelers, and an antagonist that is complicated and Gyreâs key to survival. All the pieces were there but the execution was not.
While Gyre was a great character it was hard to relate to the other main character Em who is responsible for Gyreâs plight and her reasons for it are dumb and pretty nonsensical. The author tries to make it sound like her motives have a meaning but honestly they donât and it makes her incredibly unlikeable and impossible to relate to.
Also, the forced romance between Gyre and Em I found really gross. Stockholm syndrome does not equal love, and the fact that this unnecessary abusive and toxic relationship was even a thing, just sat very wrong with me. Gyre would be in a horrific situation and thinking about Em and how she cares for her despite all the abuse Em dishes out. I donât like novels that glorify toxic or abusive relationships, and this one was so off the rails and really not necessary.
In addition, this book is so long and slow with nothing really sci fi going on beyond the suit and these tunnelers that we donât see until the end of the book and only for a page. The pacing is far too slow, with a majority of the book being climbing and traversal of the cave intermixed with Em and Gyreâs interactions, and Gyreâs slowly unraveling sanity which made this a hard one to get through for me. In the end it wasnât even worth it because the ending was so anti climactic and again just kinda gross due to the toxic relationship here.
This one had so much potential and was honestly a big disappointment.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
anracli's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I almost certainly won't reread this book.
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Grief, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt
spaghettii'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
4.5
Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism