Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

456 reviews

komiification's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious slow-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

I literally had no idea what was going on for the first half of this book (I typically don’t read such high sci-fi/fantasy stuff), but once I let myself just read through it SLOWLY, I really enjoyed it, especially after the first 200 pages. Pretty fun stuff, excited to check out the rest of the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Terminal illness, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Slavery and Fire/Fire injury

jillian8's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

Love love love. Gets even better after you read the second one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Gore, Toxic friendship, Violence, Body horror, Child death, and Suicide

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Physical abuse

Minor: Genocide, Cannibalism, and Child abuse

katee17's review

adventurous challenging dark funny lighthearted mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, and Blood

Minor: Suicide

tylercrow's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt

Minor: Body horror, Child abuse, Murder, and Blood

bezarue's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

No one is surprised that I loved this. The tagline says lesbian necromancers in space exploring a gothic castle. Ofc this was right up my street.

Spoiler

Genuinely shocked by just how many people died. Like christ on a bike I was expecting one more death after the kids not like ten. Also Gideon better not actually be dead or I am going to lose my shit. She's gotta keep being reincarnated right? RIGHT?!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Child death, Death, Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Violence, and Gore

arlaubscher's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Death of parent, Gore, and Suicide

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, and Cursing

themiscyra_anna's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Vomit, Body horror, Child abuse, War, Violence, Torture, Death of parent, Murder, Child death, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Slavery, Physical abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death

killjoycatlady's review

adventurous dark funny tense fast-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Child abuse, and Slavery

caughtbetweenpages's review

dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Rereading so I can finally get to Nona and my god, this book loses absolutely nothing on reread. I adore Gideon, un-perceptive himbo that she is, and the development of her relationship with Harrow is simply everything to me. Enemies to reluctant allies to tentative friends back to mistrust to "i will not have your soul parted from mine" is simply a dynamic that never misses. ESPECIALLY against the backdrop of an ancient and at least slightly sacrosanct necromancer school/lab/tomb-in-space, where necromancy adepts and their sworn knights are slowly being picked off by Something Mysterious as they compete in truly one of the most compelling displays of academic dick-measuring I've ever witnessed (and I've both worked at and done a Masters at an Ivy League, so trust me when I say I know masturbatory academia when I see it). All of the relationships are emotionally fraught without feeling melodramatic. It's sapphic as hell. The magic is equal parts horrific and fascinating depending on the wielder. The deaths (and the dead) will make you weep. And Tamsyn Muir's writing style is just un-put-down-able; the narrative voice is so funny and unique and sounds so profoundly Gideon. And that ending! My god, read this series if you haven't yet (check the TWs first though.).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Body horror, and Blood

strawberrycandy's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Blood, and Cannibalism

Minor: Vomit and Chronic illness