Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Gideon la Neuvième by Tamsyn Muir

420 reviews

adrreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious sad 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

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicide, Blood, and Death of parent

chasinggrace's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I’ve never had a book make me feel more confused or dumb. I’m sitting here truly stupefied bc I don’t know if I even have the intelligence to relay what happened or who it happened to. The writing was atmospheric but I feel like a kindergartener trying to read a PhD thesis on the thermodynamics of the body. Plus add space and religion and a huge cast of characters that I still can’t describe.  It’s a good book but I struggled to get through it. And now

that Gideon is quite literally dead and NOT coming back (?)

  I have no motivation to continue the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

obsydian's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Cancer and Chronic illness

its_vendetta's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

WHAT.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Chronic illness, Cannibalism, Stalking, and War

letsea's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

After this second reading I got many more details that I first ignored and that just made me love the whole series even more 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Blood

Minor: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

thermocline's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Gore and Colonisation

Minor: Death of parent and War

hex_meghead's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

The first half of the book was a very difficult read for me, it was incredibly slow and I didn't like how the worldbuilding was presented. There were also too many character names to remember (it didn't help that all of them had several different names/titles that were used interchangeably) and though the narrator did a fantastic job differentiating their voices, I only started to remember and recognize side characters

once half of the cast was dead

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Despite my numerous gripes with the book, I have to give it four stars simply due to the fact that it's persistently been on my mind ever since I finished reading it. The last few hours of the book were fantastic and Harrow has to be one of my favorite characters ever. Even if I felt that the romance was kind of rushed and Gideon and Harrow went from

"Hey, I actually kind of like you" to "You are the only thing I care about in this world and I would literally die for you"

WAY too fast for me to find it believable, I was rooting for them.
I loved Gideon and Harrow as characters and how they got to be unapologetic badass bitches who seriously hated each other. A lot of stories advertise themselves as enemies to lovers but this is the first book I read where I felt that was actually accurate. I wish there were more female characters like this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, and Death of parent

jennabean855's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book makes me absolutely bonkers insane oh my god. I’m about to hop around like a little orangutan and wear this book as a wet hat

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Terminal illness, and Murder

Minor: War

dreyy's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

4.75

I didn't think I would enjoy this book as much as I did.
It's wacky, weird, dark and twisted in the best way!

The best way I can explain the plot is there's a competition, a murder mystery plot and there's a big bad battle at the end. 
I think the authors mind is amazing, how they possibly crafted such a unique dark world and story is complexing to me.

I didn't expect to like so many characters, I loved Gideon, I loved Harrow, I loved Palamidis and Camilla and Magnus and the french teens. They were all weird, complicated and hilarious.

I am definitely going to continue the series,  I need to know what happens next and I need to know now!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Blood, and Death of parent

_persephone's review against another edition

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? Yes

5.0

i should've seen the ending coming. i did not.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror and Gore

Minor: Child death, Suicide, Grief, and Death of parent