Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang

115 reviews

whatswrenreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.5

I found the second installation in the series a bit slow and at times relying on tropes. They're not bad cliches but did make me roll my eyes at times. I'm not super interested in naval battles which this book focuses a lot on, but if that's something you're into you'll enjoy it. I can tell the author put in lots of research to discuss the naval scenes properly. And the world building is still fabulous! This book really makes you question if there are any good characters, they're all so morally grey and written incredibly well imo. I'm also 100% ready to watch rin just go feral in the 3rd book, let her burn the world down, I'll be cheering her on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, and Religious bigotry

Poor treatment of refugees, war, classism, discussion of feeling like your mind isn't your own, minor character deaths, sinking, sinking boat, open bodies of water, graphic depictions of people burning/burn victims, experimenting on people.

rachelisreading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• 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: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Medical trauma

nonfictionfeminist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Medical content

Minor: Toxic relationship and Vomit

mathildejosephine's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• 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: Addiction, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

Minor: Miscarriage

emerynmader's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Gore, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit