Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

The Silvered Serpents by Roshani Chokshi

7 reviews

karambit's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Racism, Blood, Death, Violence, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Gore, Alcohol, Confinement, Colonisation, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Ableism, Child abuse, Hate crime, Domestic abuse, Miscarriage, Death of parent, Infertility, Cultural appropriation, and Self harm

discworldwitch's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Moderate: Racism, Antisemitism, and Terminal illness

Minor: Confinement, Miscarriage, Infertility, and Child abuse

emma985's review

adventurous hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Abandonment, Terminal illness, and Antisemitism

Minor: Infertility

achingallover's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Antisemitism, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Miscarriage, Rape, Terminal illness, and Xenophobia

alizam's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

On a technical level, this book is very good. However, I was not in a headspace to read it with the love it deserves, because of triggering topics contained within the book itself.

Spoiler

Also, I still don't really get why Tristan was murdering birds.

It's not so much the book's fault as it is my own fault. I had no idea going in that the book was going to be about... the things it was about, nor that I would be triggered. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Antisemitism, Body horror, Child abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Terminal illness, Death, and Cursing

plumpaperbacks's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I absolutely adored this book. The characters are some of my favorites; they’ve all got a special place in my heart, which is thoroughly broken right now. I’m distraught. Roshani Chokshi is an evil genius. She put a brilliant ensemble cast, heartwarming friendships, agonizing romantic tension, mysterious treasure hunts, multiple explosions, banter aplenty, intriguing magic,  unbelievably high stakes, and relevant discussions on many topics including racism and antisemitism all in one book barely over 400 pages. She really did that. I don’t even know what to say. I can only express myself through sad memes as I wait desperately for book three.

Representation:

• Séverin is biracial (French-Algerian)
• Laila is Indian, has anxiety
• Enrique is queer, biracial (Spanish-Filipino)
• Zofia is Jewish, autistic
• Hypnos is biracial (Black), queer

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Self harm, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Blood, Antisemitism, and Infertility

Minor: Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

There’s one scene where a character remembers witnessing a stranger’s suicide as a child.

astralbooks's review

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

• 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: Grief

Moderate: Terminal illness, Antisemitism, and Self harm

Minor: Sexual assault, Suicide, Miscarriage, and Animal cruelty

Re sexual assault,

Spoiler

it's assault by deception, someone disguises themself as someone else to get their target into bed, but in the end any sexual contact is narrowly averted

. Re self harm, it's all for magical purposes