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thereaderfriend's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Gun violence, Misogyny, and Sexism
Minor: Genocide and War
lacee's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Genocide, Sexual content, Blood, and War
adhdru's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Violence, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism
Minor: Genocide and War
bluejayreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
- The jungles that they keep walking through, as there are a lot more jungles in Malaysia than China.
- The “secret war” (obviously guerrilla warfare now that I have the context) that is mentioned but never encountered.
- The soldiers who are a different ethnicity from the native people and do things like destroy temples and genocide people.
- The “bandits” who are native people and part of the secret war by hiding in the jungles and attacking the soldiers.
I wish this book had been longer. With this context, there is so much that could have been done with the story that just didn’t happen. I didn’t even put together that there was a guerilla war going on in the background, let alone that this was a people fighting for their independence from a colonial power. Heck, I didn’t even work out that this was set in Southeast Asia and not some fantasy version of China. The limited length of this story did it a disservice, and there could have been so much more depth and interest to this story if it had been allowed to expand beyond sketches of characters on a simple delivery quest. I liked the story for itself, but now that I have the context and see what it could have been, I find myself disappointed by the lost potential.
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Violence
Moderate: Deadnaming and Blood
Minor: Genocide, Sexual harassment, and War
abutler's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Moderate: Death, Misogyny, and Murder
Minor: Genocide
benediction's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Genocide and Sexism