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Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

21 reviews

mandkips's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Vomit and Death of parent

relin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Minor: Vomit

foreverinastory's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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? Yes

4.5

I really enjoyed this one!

Rep: Asian bisexual female MC, Asian lesbian female MC with an eye implant, Asian genius female side character, queer normative world.

CWs: Blood, body horror, child death, death, fire/fire injury, gore, grief, gun violence, injury/injury detail, kidnapping, medical content and unconsented medical experimentation, murder, torture, violence, war. Moderate: Car accident, colonisation, confinement, cursing, death of parent, emotional abuse, genocide, medical trauma, mental illness (anxiety and PTSD), police brutality, physical abuse, self-harm, toxic relationship, xenophobia. Minor: Panic attacks, vomit. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, and Colonisation

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Vomit

cottlestonpie's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Infidelity, Sexual content, Vomit, and Stalking

lotten4's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Different from other dystopian ya novels. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

mar's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense 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 had the pleasure of listening to the audiobook, which was great - the narrators matched the characters perfectly, the audio quality was smooth and well-edited; my only complaint would be that the narrator for Eris's chapters occasionally spoke at a slightly faster pace than the other, so I had to switch between 1.25x and 1x speed every now and then between chapters, but other than that it's very easy to listen to.

All that out of the way - it took me until about 1/3 of the book to get properly into it, but once Sona's and Eris's paths finally cross, DAMN. it gets GOOD. I love their fierceness, their enemies-to-lovers dynamic, I love the found family of it all of the Gearbreakers. Any minor criticisms I might have fade in comparison to how much I enjoyed this book. I just KNOW I would've become completely obsessed with it if I read it in high school, it's so unlike any other YA book I've read.

My favourite part of the book was Sona's internal conflict - her hostility towards her own body, the disgust she feels for Godolia and what they turned her into versus the power she feels when piloting a mecha, her attempts at forming a new identity for herself as a Gearbreaker. It's so compelling, and I love that she's not just fighting to get revenge for her parents, but for herself, too. It's so angsty in that distinctly YA way, but it GOT to me, okay!!! The ending is a gut punch after gut punch and I cannot wait for the sequel. I Am Not Immune to teen girls who had their childhoods stolen away fighting against the regime, taking down huge mechas and falling in love 🥺

(Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Torture, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit

starccato's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Cursing, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, and Stalking

autumnrevisited's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Torture and Blood

Minor: Vomit

applesaucemaybegood's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense 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

I kin Sona and its horrible, anyways great book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Grief, Medical trauma, and Death of parent

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Vomit

mo345's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Infidelity, Mental illness, Slavery, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Alcohol