Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

11 reviews

geekmom's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective 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

Utterly original — and the philosophical stance about communication and shared meaning allowed this book to transcend all of the tired sf/f language tropes. I’m going to be thinking about this book for a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Slavery

hendrixpants's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders

kimu's review

hopeful informative mysterious tense medium-paced

4.5

An intriguing and challenging book. There were a few points where I thought, how does any of this fit together? And then it does. Very interesting ideas. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

maecave15's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Murder, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Slavery, and Vomit

creatuvre's review

adventurous reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Slavery, Confinement, and Gun violence

Minor: Violence and Animal death

rebelscum's review

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective 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: Trafficking and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

lbelow's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Violence, Gun violence, Torture, Confinement, Slavery, Murder, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide

emmalouisereads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious tense slow-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? Yes

4.5

This is a fascinating look into the similarities and differences between the ways humans communicate with each other, and other species .. including technology.

There’s a heavy focus on octopuses which I particularly enjoyed. I’ve always been fascinated by how/why octopuses are so intelligent when they are not very social. This book explores what might happen if they were…

This book touches on so much, what it means to be alive, the concept of communication and the consequences of the technology we’ve built.

If you’re a fan of sci-fi, I think you’ll like this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

ree333's review

adventurous dark informative mysterious 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Slavery, and Violence

amiegold's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative slow-paced

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

4.0

I am hovering between 3.75 and 4 stars, because while I liked the writing and the concepts, I had a hard time staying engaged in the story.  I am not sure if it was a mood thing for me?  I would still recommend this book to lovers of science and science fiction.  We learn about both a new species of sentient robots and an evolved species of octopus that force us to ask the question: what is consciousness?  Marine Biologist, Dr. Ha, is the one selected to find an answer to that question.  She is so wrapped up in exploring the new octopuses, that she fails to ask herself what her research will be used for.   An interesting, sometimes terrifying and at times intelligent novel.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Body horror

Moderate: Violence and Xenophobia