Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Translation State by Ann Leckie

24 reviews

hanz's review

adventurous reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Medical content, Cannibalism, Abandonment, and War

nak34's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Xenophobia, and Blood

Minor: Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, and Vomit

cleot's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Sexual violence, Transphobia, and Xenophobia

Minor: Child abuse and Genocide

Not the author's fault but the narrator for the audiobook mispronounces the neopronoun "hir" as "her" quite frequently.

loquaciousleon's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book had my flying through it's pages in 36 hours. Absolutely brilliant.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Deadnaming, Sexual assault, Transphobia, and Forced institutionalization

It doesn't dramatize or use traumatic events without justice to the character and mindfulness for how the events are portrayed.

msawyer77's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Sexual violence

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

maryellen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, and Gaslighting

batesbarb's review against another edition

adventurous 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? It's complicated

4.5

I deeply love Leckie's Radch books, and this one is a great addition to the universe. It provides a glimpse into the internal workings of the society that has formed the boogeyman threat that unites much of humanity in the other books, while also expanding our understanding of some of the human and non-human societies that we've seen the periphery of the other stories. Some of the POV characters are easier to relate to than others at first, but by the end I was fully invested in all of them. It also has the sly humor that I've come to expect in her books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

woweewhoa's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Racism, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, and Police brutality

Minor: War

caryndi's review against another edition

emotional hopeful slow-paced

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

4.5

I'm always excited for new Ann Leckie, and Translation State did not disappoint! This book used a background of interpersonal and family drama to tackle questions about the politics of personhood and belonging. I was fascinated by the glimpses we got into the Presger translators (and the subsequent sort-of look at the Presger themselves) and now want more books going into more detail regarding that society.
On the one hand, there was rather more vivisection than I was expecting. On the other, I'm more likely to not care about romance subplots than to get into them, but Leckie wrote one I came to adore. And, like any book in this universe, it was fun to see the mentions of characters we'd come to know and love in previous installments, even if they were only side players to the main plot.
If you're a fan of Ann Leckie's existing work in the Imperial Radch extended universe, definitely read this book. If you're not familiar, I think Provenance is still my recommended starting point for the universe. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Kidnapping

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Gore, Rape, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Minor: Child death and Sexual content