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zannayo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Violence, War, and Classism
Moderate: Misogyny, Pedophilia, and Trafficking
Minor: Gun violence
zotty's review against another edition
Graphic: Violence and War
Moderate: Body horror and Sexual content
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Child abuse
tigertheory's review
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Pedophilia, and Colonisation
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Gun violence, Sexual content, and War
Minor: Cancer, Confinement, Drug use, Rape, Suicide, Islamophobia, Cannibalism, Abortion, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Re: Pedophiliamagicalghoul's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Not too keen though, on the tendency the narrative had of putting all of humanity in the same bag for the sake of its connecting narrative. I really wish that just as much as it criticized capitalism in-text, it did the same for colonialism— at times it even felt like it was romanticizing it, just for the sake of a metaphor that didn't quite land.
For example I don't think that colonialism and genocide perpetrated by very white nations when "discovering" the "New Worlds", or mass consumerism and ecocide due to corporatocracy, should've been drawn as a parallel to what happened in Rapa Nui (who's never referred by its actual indigenous name) for a cautionary tale. Even less so coming from a white author.
It does have beautiful turn of phrases though, but I think I would've liked it better as a space opera.
Graphic: Child abuse, Genocide, and Pedophilia
Moderate: Body horror, Fatphobia, Racism, Xenophobia, and Trafficking
Minor: Sexism
Fatphobia, racism, xenophobia, sexism: The first half takes place in a late stage capitalism super city where all isms are present. They're challenged in text. Pedophilia/Child Abuse/Trafficking: MC meets a character that wants to look like a teen to please her pedophilic husband. Later on, the MC has to go talk to the husband while he's in a brothel where child trafficking takes place. Colonialism/Imperialism: Cited and referenced all through the text.freja's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Grief, and Colonisation
Minor: Body horror, Racial slurs, Medical content, War, and Deportation