Reviews tagging 'War'

Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon

26 reviews

knunderb's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

5.0

Great installment in the Outlander series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

danielleeejames's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, Medical trauma, Colonisation, and War

azebrareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

tiana_king's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

This was a well balanced book in terms of character plot and historical plot. Also the amount of sad and happy moments were pretty even in this book as well. The book was nicely paced and I look forward to the next one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Infidelity, Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Stalking and Alcohol

Minor: Racism, Sexism, and Slavery

socialpsysteph's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Given that this is the 9th book in this series I can't really tell you a whole lot so I'll just say, wow. This one did not disappoint and I couldn't put it down. I saved this book to read while I was healing from surgery and it was perfect. I was able to escape and weirdly enough, parts of the story really helped with my emotional healing. If you are a fan of this series (which, if you're at book 9 I would hope you are), you are really going to love this one.

This book counts for Popsugar 2022 for a book with a misleading title.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Gore, Medical content, and War

misguidedgoose's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content and Murder

All of these triggers are in context for the time period that the book is set.

pagesfromhome's review against another edition

adventurous reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

I think Diana Gabaldon has an incredible way of bringing you back into a story, even if it's been a while since you've immersed yourself in it. I loved the effort spent on Lord John and William and the travels of Ian and his family. There was a lot more time spent with characters that I wasn't expecting to spend with, and I enjoyed that, which led to my 4-star rating.

As with all Outlander books, it's exceptionally long, has tons of historical moments that can be hard to keep track of, and is almost entirely character-focused (even when it's dealing with the plot, it feels like the story is only being moved by the characters rather than the other way around). But if you've been around for the last 8, there's no reason not to dig through this one as well.

I did hit a wall with reading it about halfway through because it was just moving so slowly, but the second half really picks up the pace and the action and, of course, in true Gabaldon fashion, teases the scene you've been waiting for for the whole book.

Content warnings abound! To the point that it's actually very hard to keep track of them all so just proceed with caution.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and War

Minor: Rape

chloemakesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

Very repetitive of earlier books in the series (like hey, remember that time we did that thing in book 3?) and a lot less stressful than usual, which means there was a lot less plot. Not sure if there's just too much affection for the huge cast of characters we have to keep track of at this point, but mostly lacked the teeth of previous stories. Also the first time I listened as an audiobook instead of reading, which could have colored my experience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Slavery, Vomit, and Kidnapping

Minor: Antisemitism

lashlees's review against another edition

adventurous informative relaxing slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Colonisation, and War

wackly93's review against another edition

relaxing slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: War

Minor: Abandonment