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rachelunabridged's review
- 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
Graphic: Mental illness, Blood, Grief, and Murder
Moderate: Animal death and Abandonment
Minor: Child death
keen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Murder
Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
bsmucker's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Murder, and Abandonment
Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, and Gaslighting
booksthatburn's review against another edition
Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
motaki's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.5
I really loved Arcadia and it pained me so much to see her so unmoored in the last chapters, she has suffered so much it's great go see her getting a little HEA.
I wanted to strangle Alex and Cecil most of the time, they represent the kind of people I despise, always ready to blame others for their awful behaviour. It is never their fault, they are just following orders or doing things for a greater purpose. Yeah, right..
Quoting Lilac "You can't own what you do."
And that's a massive toxic trait I can't excuse.
The world building was so good and immersive that I'd like to know more about glories and gods and how everything came to be.
Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder
sdsmith80's review
- 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
Graphic: Violence and Murder
Minor: Child death and Injury/Injury detail
Moody and genre blurring! I don't really have the words to express what I feel about this book. Set in a fictional world where gods are real, as are monsters, and civilization falls and remakes itself again and again, the story is intriguing to say the least. Several lives intertwined, from Arcadia, who has already received one miracle, but is set to receive more, Lilac, grieving and desperate for an end to the land's suffering, Cecil, the alcoholic who may be more than he seems, and Alex, who seemingly figures everything out before everyone else and has the heart to put the world before his own interests. I was at turns saddened, excited, hopeful, and scared with this book. It's definitely a hard one to pin down.laurensilva's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
For the first half of the book, I was invested, eager to find out how the story unfolds. But, to quote the book itself, "Too much was happening too fast" from Chapter 33 to about Chapter 48. There is a lot happening in almost every moment, but the readers don't have the context that the characters do, and so it gets overwhelming/disorienting. We jump from scene to scene, location to location, very quickly with a lot packed in there. It feels like the end is coming, but we still have more than 100 pages left. Then once it slows back down, it feels like we're now dragging towards the end, an end that when it comes, feels disappointing and doubtful because again we, as readers, haven't been let in enough on the context. It feels like a cheat.
I did enjoy the characters generally, and to get to read from various third-person perspectives to gain some insight into different characters' minds.
Graphic: Murder
readundancies's review
Now I liked The Ninth Rain for the most part, but it didn’t blow me away by any means, and I feel similarly about No Gods for Drowning.
So then why the DNF?
Because I went into it thinking it would be something other than what it was.
I thought there would be more buddy cop vibes.
There wasn’t.
I thought it would be more focused on the whole cat-and-mouse chase of the detectives trying to hunt for the serial killer.
There was a lot more focus on the romance instead. Which I wasn’t opposed to but I also didn’t pick this up for the romance, ya know?
And I dunno, the structure just wasn’t what I was expecting, OR what I was in the mood for.
I may revisit this in the future when I’m in a different mindset, but for now, wrong time, wrong book.
Graphic: Violence and Murder