Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin

128 reviews

florapatricia's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Such a beautiful and haunting piece of literature.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

bigofheartdumbofass's review

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

Second time reading this, and damn is it so good still. It's been my favorite series for a decade, and there is a reason for that!!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Grief, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Hate crime and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death and Colonisation

hdunscombe's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cannibalism

savvyrosereads's review

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? No

4.0

Rating: 4/5 stars

The second book in the Broken Earth trilogy continues the story of THE FIFTH SEASON.

I am really enjoying this trilogy! This one is a much slower burn than the first, and felt a bit like a filler or bridge novel from book one to two, but there was a great deal of character development and the introduction of new POVs, which I really appreciated. I loved to see the world beginning to fill out, and even though my brain hurts, I feel like I have a slightly better handle on how everything works after this book, which is a good thing.

There are also elements of this book that remind me of Catching Fire and Mockingjay from The Hunger Games series in a way I can’t really explain without spoilers but it’s a very specific and very niche vibe. All in all, I can’t wait for book three!

CW: Murder/death/violence; death of child; injury

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

kwthor's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Racism, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content

jgarner510's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Death

rorikae's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

5.0

N.K. Jemisin crafts the middle book in a trilogy that retains its excitement, character work, and worldbuilding. Without spoiling book one, this story follows along from where the first book leaves off and delves further into Essun's life. In addition, we also get so see what Nassun's life has been like, which is a fascinating contrast to her mother. We get to learn more about why the world is the way it is as well as some really important understandings about orogeny. The more time I spend in this world, the clearer it is how much time and effort Jimisin has put in to craft an exceptional world with flawed, deeply human characters. Her writing is precise and evocative as she slowly pulls back the edges of our understanding of the world and her characters. I cannot wait to start book three though I am not looking forward to finishing this exceptional series. I wish there were even more books in this world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse

amschelly153's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

Beautiful. Devastating. Incredible. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Violence, Grief, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

slinkmalink's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.25

Continued the excellent world-building as more about the way orogeny (and magic) work was discovered. 
I still love Alabaster and I love their relationship to eachother

and I was so sad he died even though I knew it was coming I think I tried to convince myself otherwise

I think I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the first one because I missed Syenite's perspective (yes I know technically we still had it) and it also felt a bit more bleak which makes sense as the world is ending

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse and Cannibalism

wormgirl's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, and Grief