machetemilk'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? Yes
5.0
Moderate: Death
kirchnerkd's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Death
Minor: Sexual content
kensingtonska's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Moderate: Grief and Death
Minor: Emotional abuse
ijustreallyliketrees's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Blood and Death
Moderate: Animal death, Gore, and Murder
Minor: Sexual content
librarymouse's review
- 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? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual content, and Blood
rorikae's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
This is a great follow-up to the first installment and continues a great novella series that I can't wait to read more of. Vo's prose is evocative and weaves an engaging story. I appreciate that this series slowly unfolds the world through individual stories that are given their own time to shine in their own novellas. The set up of the story, similar to that of One Hundred and One Nights, works incredibly well in novella form and fits perfectly with Chih's work collecting stories. I'm excited to read more in this series and see what stories Chih collects next.
Moderate: Death and Violence
maeverose's review
3.0
I’m also a bit curious about the ‘romance’ in the book, because to me it felt very typical of fable-esque love stories that are actually pretty toxic from a modern pov, so I wasn’t thinking of it as a romance we were supposed to root for exactly but it seems like some other reviewers felt differently.. because the romance was very toxic both from the human’s and tiger’s povs (stalking, not helping unless they get something out of it, being generally aggressive, etc.).
Graphic: Death, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Murder
Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Blood, Gore, and Stalking
There’s a lot of descriptions of animal gore and eating raw animal parts Also very minor but there was at least one time that I noticed the author used the wrong pronouns for Chih 🙃ggcd1981'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
Spoiler
A história que Chih conhece foi transmitida por contadores de histórias humanos, então é claro que centra Dieu e a coloca sob uma luz favorável. Para os humanos, Dieu é a heroína e Ho Thi Thao a vilã. As tigresas veem de forma diferente. Elas corrigem Chih com o lado de Ho Thi Thao da história, deixando claro que Dieu não era uma donzela inocente. Mas mesmo dentro de sua versão, cada tigre vê a verdade de maneira ligeiramente diferente. A intriga da obra é bastante boa e fiquei curiosa por qual a versão correta da história e se as irmãs tigres poupariam a vida de Chih, Si-yu e seu mamute. Nghi Vo brinca com a lógica na narrativa pois existe duas versões da história e não se sabe qual delas ou se ambas são falsas. No geral gostei bastante desse segundo volume, apesar de achar que a história de Ho Thi Thao e Dieu foi menos interessante que a contada por Rabbit no primeiro livro sobre a Imperatriz In-yo. A narrativa da tigresa e da acadêmica é, supostamente um romance, mas não importa a versão de Chih ou das tigresas, não parece haver muita base para o amor entre Ho Thi Thao e Dieu. Independentemente da versão isso pareceu um bully romance, pois Ho Thi Thau foi bastante forçosa em seu interesse em Dieu e sua condição de tigresa dava uma aura de medo as situações, por isso em alguns momentos o consentimento me pareceu dúbio. Essa razão fez meu interesse pela história diminuir um pouco.Moderate: Death, Confinement, and Stalking
Dubious Consentnbmki's review
- 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? No
4.0
Minor: Blood and Death
tianas's review
- 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
Minor: Death and Murder