Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

5 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

3.0

maybe just the mood I'm in but it never quite clicked for me :( the spiders were cool though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Death, Murder, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Sexism, Animal death, Cannibalism, and Terminal illness

Minor: Ableism

Spiders, insects. Passing use of cr*pple/d, single use of the R slur.

euphemiajo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Xenophobia, Animal death, Colonisation, Death of parent, Violence, War, Animal cruelty, Ableism, Death, Abandonment, Gun violence, Medical content, Mental illness, and Pregnancy

mar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Violence and Gun violence

Minor: Blood, Ableism, and Sexism

gilchrist's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, and Slavery

Moderate: Body horror

readingwithkt's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.0

This is the first sci-fi novel I’ve read and I enjoyed it! I will definitely be reading the book that follows on from this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death

One perspective in this book comes from the POV of a spider. The word "cripple" is used in the book once, hence the CW for ableism.

Spoiler

there is a scene in which it is revealed that in order to control the human species, they had to remove the embryo from the womb and place it in a controlled frozen environment. This kind of content may be difficult for some readers to read, though it is not described in detail on page.