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dayoldtea's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Rape, Slavery, Torture, and Trafficking
kb33's review
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.25
CW/TW explanation: there is no on page rape, but the mfc was a sex slave prior to this book. This story covers her sexual reawakening, and she works through her emotions about this on page. There is also
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Classism
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Confinement, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and War
elledanie's review
4.5
Graphic: Sexual content
Minor: Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail
bookedinsideout's review
4.5
While not all of the answers are given in this book (what exactly happened to the va Sithai brothers), I can forgive that since they’ll get their own books and it’s a pretty cool idea to write a book as a serial even if I would be too impatient not to read the whole thing at once.
Unfortunately for a book with generally good disability representation (dealing with pain, prosthetics, sick care, etc.), I was disappointed to see the word “invalid” used… twice. First Sophie: “you’re having to take care of me like I’m an invalid” when she burned her hands, and then later Jarook telling Sophie that he’s “not an invalid” when she tries to help him with something. That’s just not a word we should be using, for what I feel are obvious reasons. Having a disability doesn’t make someone an “invalid”, nor does needing help or a break or care of any kind. I’m excited to read Zakoar’s story, the prosthetic surgeon who has prosthetics and a metal spine himself, but I’m really hoping not to see that word again, especially in a contemporary story.
My plan was to take a break from the Rubyverse after this book, but now I feel like I have to quickly read the Corsairs (which would be kind of like a prequel for me) so that I can then find out what happened to the va Sithai’s with the Corsair Brothers and then re-start the Ice Planet Barbarians and intersperse that with Ice Home… stat!
Moderate: Gun violence, Slavery, and Violence
Minor: Ableism and Sexual violence