Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Gideon la Neuvième by Tamsyn Muir

435 reviews

cuteasamuntin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Infertility, Mental illness, Medical content, Cannibalism, and Religious bigotry

adoaboutclaire's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.0

Required trust to keep going when you start it as not much is explained, but it's gripping and ou understand enough to run with it by about a quarter of the way through 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Gore, Infertility, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Colonisation

It's dark but if you can deal with it it's a great book.

snerp_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Grief

lunarkris's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Suicide, Xenophobia, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Eating disorder, Incest, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Classism

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