Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

101 reviews

chefboyavi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-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

A beautiful follow up to the first book in the series and a lovely expansion of an already engaging world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Slavery

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

alexisdawn's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Blood

Moderate: Slavery and Classism

Minor: Infertility

alyxinthestars's review

emotional hopeful reflective slow-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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: Animal death and Violence

lindsayreads21's review against another edition

emotional 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

5.0

Book 2 in the Wayfarers series doesn’t follow the same group of characters that we fell in love with in Book 1, with a few notable exceptions. This time, we get to follow Pepper (who we met in Port Coriol as a friend of Kizzy and Jenks) and Sidra (who we have met before, but it’d be a horrible spoiler if I gave you too much here). This book gives us Pepper’s backstory, which is absolutely heartbreaking, through flashback chapters. In the “present” chapters, Pepper is trying to help Sidra find her place in a strange new environment in which she’s incredibly uncomfortable. This is a beautiful story of growth and overcoming adversity, found family, and sentience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, and Slavery

Moderate: Ableism and Animal death

Minor: Infertility

fancy_cryptid's review against another edition

dark hopeful fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

This book is amazing.  It is much darker than the first book in the series, and yet the ending is beautifully optimistic.  I highly recommend it.  I need to read this again just to admire the structure - I love how this was put together.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Slavery

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Infertility

Content warning - no ED but note that a p.o.v. character endures extreme, medically significant levels of starvation for a long time - this is a major part of the book.

kastix's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Dysphoria, and Classism

Moderate: Body horror, Slavery, Blood, Vomit, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Death, Infertility, Excrement, Medical content, and Medical trauma

grace_b_3's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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: Animal death

Moderate: Confinement and Slavery

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual content, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, and War

bootrat's review

adventurous emotional hopeful 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 loved this book, Sidra and Pepper are both such cool loveable characters and I had a great time getting to know them. Baby Jane made me so sad, and I definitely cried reading some of her bits, and Sidra's journey of discovery and her struggle to understand who she was and what her place in the world is was so emotional and relatable too. I love Tak and Blue too. Basically it was a great book about friendship, love, connection, and what it means to be a person. Highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, and Slavery

Moderate: Child death and Dysphoria

amschelly153's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring slow-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

5.0

I want this series to live in my memory banks forever. Becky writes such kind stories. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Slavery, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail