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whatkatyread87's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Colonisation, and Classism
booksthatburn's review against another edition
The very first chapter has misogyny and homophobic slurs in a density which makes me mistrust where the rest of this could possibly go.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
birdentea's review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.0
I normally am not affected by dark fantasy, but this book was just... too much. I had to stop multiple times reading it. The violence against women is extremely graphic and the book is blasé about it, almost using that kind of unimaginable trauma as shock value. The book has no lighthearted moments, which is to be expected in this kind of novel, I think, but the characters never emotionally address the darkness of the book. Honestly, the level of violence and sexual assault in the book is just too much. For gritty fantasy, I would expect some level of that kind of content as a part of the world, but this was just senseless violence without narrative purpose, and as a woman it was extremely hard to read that level of trauma being reduced to a plot device.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence