Reviews tagging 'Injury/injury detail'

The Merciless Ones, by Namina Forna

13 reviews

emmakchapman's review

adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Death of parent, Sexism, and Injury/injury detail

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

megsmagiclibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring tense

• 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Sexism, Death of parent, Child death, Torture, and Injury/injury detail

Moderate: Cannibalism

dannilmp's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.75

A beautiful continuation to The Gilded Ones, with plenty of twists and turns to keep your brain jogging to keep up! I put off reading this book for a little while as I was concerned it wouldn't be able to live upto the engagement and quality of the first book, but this was on par with the first book all the way!

I loved how the story took things you thought you knew from the events of The Gilded Ones and turned them on their head once more. Truly I have no idea what to expect the final book will tell but I am certainly looking forward to it! I loved watching these girls and some of the lads grow into their own and becoming these fully fleshed characters while exploring some back stories and flaws. 

The only downside is, like the first book, I felt the pacing was medium except when I hit the last quarter or so of the book. The pace seemed to quite rapidly pick up here, it was still written very well, I just would have prefered more time spent with their characters and the stories they have to tell. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/injury detail, and Sexism

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy, Homophobia, and Emotional abuse

rachelroo13's review

adventurous challenging reflective 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

4.0

"It's never easy, is it, Deka." Britta says it best and this quote can easily encompass this entire sequel. Forna has masterfully woven the continuation of Deka and the alaki's story with twists, turns, and betrayal once again. In a fictional world touted for it's feminism and woman power this book not only empowers its women and girls but also extends the conversation to all genders. I don't think I've ever read a book with as many trans or non-binary characters and the best part is, these things are not a "big deal." They aren't made a large part of the characters' personalities, it isn't talked about exhaustively; it's just a thing that is mentioned, accepted, and then everyone moves on as normal. Where the first book in this series pushed the reader to think about misogyny, the idea of misandry is added here. Deka and her friends want true equality for all, regardless of gender. Of course that's not going to be easy, especially in a culture as twisted around as Otera's. The mythology of Otera and the continued worldbuilding make this a dynamite sequel, and I'm excited to see where Deka goes next.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Transphobia, Death, Gore, Blood, Injury/injury detail, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, and Sexism

Minor: Homophobia, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, and Rape

amanda_marie's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This series is bananas sometimes. It’s trying to do so much, and I’m not always sure it’s working, but I’m so enchanted by the efforts that I just keep reading. Loved the twists and turns in this sequel as the lore developed and will definitely read more books just to see how this turns out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, War, Injury/injury detail, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Torture, Self harm, Sexism, and Transphobia

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Injury/injury detail, Grief, Gore, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Body horror, Blood, and Sexism

Minor: Homophobia and Transphobia

fungivibes's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Injury/injury detail, and Torture

lucy_shanners's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense

• 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: Death, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Body horror, Gore, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexism, War, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Injury/injury detail

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Pregnancy and Transphobia

books4bee's review

dark 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Sexism, Forced institutionalization, Torture, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Genocide, Homophobia, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Rape

kshertz's review

adventurous emotional informative inspiring tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is just as good as Gilded Ones. The twists and turns were fantastic. Everything I thought I knew from the first book gets turned on it’s head. There are some moments I actually gasped out loud. Other moments I had tears in my eyes. The writing is just fantastic and the underlining themes are subtle but there if you look. I just love everything about it and now I can’t wait for book 3. I have sooo many questions and theories. I love it. Officially invested highly in all these characters though so I’m hoping they all make it through book 3. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Abandonment, Blood, and Emotional abuse