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iane_reads'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? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Trafficking, Car accident, and Abandonment
Minor: Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, and War
traa'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? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cursing, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Vomit, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Dysphoria
Minor: Cannibalism
tnm94'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? Yes
2.75
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War
Moderate: Eating disorder, Incest, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Fire/Fire injury
devirtualized'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
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Eating disorder, Gun violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, and Medical trauma
Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol
fiveredhens's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Cursing, Sexual content, Vomit, Colonisation, and War
theirgracegrace's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Excrement, Police brutality, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Terminal illness, and Colonisation
The Blood of Eden's attack on necromancers comes with a lot of slur-like terms and bigotry that is reminiscent of (but not a direct copy of) religious bigotry in real life.nicnevin's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
I pulled the book apart and devoured it.
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
jurizprudence'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
5.0
tor and netgalley rejected my arc request because they knew i won't be able to shut my little mouth if i read this book earlier. and what a tragically beautiful book about apocalypse, rebirth and resurrection, found families, and love in its purest, most innocent, and childlike form nona the ninth is! the way it broke my heart into pieces and put them back together in a span of almost 500 pages just like the previous books did was criminal—towards the end i was so fragile that even thinking about camilla's little smiles would require me a five-minute breakdown and a lie-down on the floor of my room. nona's eagerness to give love and her desire to be loved back brought me to tears the most when i finished. she's just so sweet and endearing and too pure for this world that i can't wrap my head around how can anyone not like—even love her.
i'm not a very articulate person, and i mean it when i say i can't describe how much i adore pyrrha and camilla and palamedes, and how much i miss gideon and harrowhark in this book. a certain prince—the saddest girl in the whole entire world!! i want to sob—got me acting unwise, and i will defend her to anyone who says something bad or mean about her i swear to god. i still admire ianthe's gall and i'm rooting for corona and judith. anyways i hate john with a burning passion and i think he is very pathetic and i want to study him under a microscope. this goes to show that muir is great in writing multifaceted characters—even awful, evil, and minor ones—that you can't help but feel attached to them. i saw readers saying that they didn't care much for nona's friends but i did!! god, i did cry and laugh for hot sauce and born in the morning and even that lying honesty—and it's all thanks to nona and her perspective.
notice how all i've talk about are the characters? yeah. yeah because the character dynamics are the highlight of this book for me. as for the plot, ntn was obviously easier to follow than htn, and thank goodness for that because i wasn't able to fully reread the previous books. i still got lost several times, but i think i did pretty well, having guessed one (lol) important plot point. still in awe that muir refuses to explain in detail everything that's happening by writing the most unreliable narrators in this universe—and that i actually love it. this series made me realize that i do like being confused. if gideon the ninth is a locked room mystery designed like a puzzle and harrow the ninth is a psychedelic dream meant to gaslight you, nona the ninth is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi fully built on love—love for oneself, friends, family, beliefs, and love for the planet that was your home. i didn't know that it would be as heartbreaking as htn was, but it is—even more so, i think. and for that tamsyn owes me therapy and a promise that griddlehark is endgame in alecto the ninth, thanks very much.
also tamsyn muir can you please stop introducing foul-mouthed and bright-haired women characters because i literally fall in love every time, yes this about pash, dearest our lady of the passion whom nona and i have a crush on, thank you
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Xenophobia
relin's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Drug use, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, and War
Minor: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Cannibalism
uranaishi'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? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Car accident, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Transphobia, Vomit, Trafficking, Abandonment, and Alcohol