Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

23 reviews

iane_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Alcohol, Classism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Violence, Self harm, Stalking, Torture, Body horror, Dysphoria, Gaslighting, Gore, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Cursing, and Death

Moderate: Eating disorder, Genocide, Ableism, Sexual content, Child abuse, Suicide, Cannibalism, Child death, and Confinement

Minor: Sexual harassment, Trafficking, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Miscarriage, Cancer, Terminal illness, Animal death, Dementia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Acephobia/Arophobia, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and War

jodean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Cursing, Abandonment, Violence, Toxic friendship, Murder, Grief, Body horror, Blood, Gore, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide attempt, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Suicide, Death of parent, and War

hayleyvem's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Mental illness, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Cannibalism, Gun violence, Murder, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Bullying

Moderate: Pregnancy, Chronic illness, Genocide, Infertility, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Cancer, and Suicide

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

everie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• 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

3.5

Very interesting, but definitely a book that took me a long time to finish. A much more serious in tone sequel to Gideon the Ninth. Sometimes felt like it needed an editor to step in and ask if a long long section was really REALLY necessary, but Muir is one of the only authors I know who can have a character use every word in the thesaurus in one line and let loose with a meme in the next. Sparks joy ngl

Hm. Hmmmmmm. Either way, still love some disaster lesbians in necro-space!! Might need some recovery time before the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Blood

Minor: Terminal illness

msradiosilence's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, War, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Infertility, Medical content, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

psitstorrie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Murder, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Gaslighting, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Body horror, Terminal illness, Mental illness, Self harm, Cursing, and Eating disorder

Minor: Colonisation, Pregnancy, Excrement, and Genocide

mossgoblins's review against another edition

challenging funny mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.0

This book feels like a fever dream and I adore it. Definitely worth at least 2 reads. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gun violence, Gore, Medical content, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Toxic relationship, Genocide, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Grief, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Child death, and War

solarel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

While I liked this one a fraction less than Gideon, the last third of the book hooked me yet again. The author is seriously phenomenal when it comes to unraveling a mystery one inch at a time. 

and those terrible jokes! I loved it there towards the end. “Hi I’m not fucking dead, I’m dad. Shut up John Hahahha.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Grief, Mental illness, Toxic friendship, Medical trauma, Abandonment, Body horror, Murder, Violence, Blood, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Gaslighting, Medical content, Physical abuse, and Terminal illness

Minor: Cannibalism and Death of parent

whiterabbitslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Just been bullied by this book for 3 days straight and you know I’m gonna read it again!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Grief, and War

Moderate: Death of parent, Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, Genocide, and Gore

Minor: Child death, Child abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

fox_at_the_circus's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

The book starting out in second person threw me for a loop, but it was such a great tool to explore, how traumatised Harrow is and her in general. Also the POV switching to third person in the flashbacks makes it really easy to distinguish the different time lines.

Also, when it was revealed, that it was Gideon talking to Harrow this whole time with the "you", that was just an amayng plot twist!

Harrow's paranoia really set the darker tone of this book and it worked so well with the lonely fortress in deep space setting and makes the mystery just so much more mysterious.
I also really enjoyed, that this book spent more time with characters, that were just mentioned in the first book like Abigail and Magnus. And all the new characters are super interesting, too. Just like in the first book the relationships among them are written so well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Terminal illness and Gun violence