Reviews tagging 'Body horror'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

690 reviews

werewolfrizz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement

beansandavocados's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad medium-paced

• 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Cursing

flora_arns's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

ok I’ve had ENOUGH death bed lesbianism confessions.

Great book though. Super unique world-building, great character development, intriguing story. Lost some points as I struggled to get into it, and I found myself lost at several parts. But that might have been because I listened to this as an audiobook. I think a re-read as a physical book would up my rating to at least a 4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Gore

Minor: Child death, Suicide, and Death of parent

bhard07's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, and War

cgraxe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

d12inspiration's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

This was fantastic. I'm fresh off finishing the book so it's hard to articulate the ways that I loved it, but know that the love is there.

Time for spoilers!:

God, I REALLY hope that the people who went missing at the end of this book make a mean comeback in HTN. I love Camilla SO much, and I'm very curious to see a post-Canaan Coronabeth now that Ianthe has ascended to Lyctorhood.

Regarding the marketing of this book:

I think it the way this book is often pitched might lean a little too much into the "lesbian enemies to lovers" thing. And I get it, it's an easy way to communicate a major development in your story. But just so readers know, this burn is SLOW. Like, it takes almost the entire book slow. And I love that! But in the age of BookTok and its frank obsession with "spiciness" and slapping generalized labels on anything published, just know that this love is not the speed at which a BookTok recommendation may go, nor will it go as far. They don't even kiss. But it's deliberate, it's complicated, and it's REAL. These lesbians hate each other for extremely sound reasons, and the means by which they overcome that hatred is well-paced and SLOW. Just so excited lesbians like myself know exactly how the roadmap is looking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, and Grief

Minor: Abandonment

olivi_yeah's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

ali1311's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

It was very hard to read a book and never have a single idea what was going on. This was a shame because I really liked our two main characters here, Gideon and Harrowhark, and I loved their relationship. In the end, I didn't feel like much of the confusion paid off. I don't think there was a reason I needed to not understand anything that was ever happening. Lots of other reviews seem to disagree with me, but I just thought there was too much to take in. It made it so that I wasn't connecting with any of the characters much--and there were soo many characters. I wonder how my reading experience would have been different if I'd read it versus listened to it on audiobook, but as it was, I could not keep these people straight and didn't really care to in the end. I liked the premise and the concept of the story but the execution just didn't work for me. It was still a good book, and I did enjoy Gideon enough that sometimes I didn't mind being in the dark, but as a whole, this book didn't really leave a mark on me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Body horror

maleee's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Es una historia muy interesante, aunque al principio tarda en empezar la trama. Las primeras 100 páginas son bastante lentas, pero lo que más me gustó fueron los personajes, esa fue la razón por la que no lo abandoné. 

Hay un montón de personajes, así que les recomiendo buscar una guía para que no se pierdan pero tarde o temprano te vas acostumbrando.

Una cosa medio complicada son los huesos, todo el tiempo menciona diferentes tipos de estos y si no sabes mucho como yo se te complica seguir el ritmo.

El final me dejó impactada, no me lo esperaba y me costó entenderlo.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Death

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

jelliclejules's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Chronic illness, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Grief, and Cannibalism

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Infertility, Miscarriage, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and War