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bergha1998's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
3.25
Fantasy, Religion
“Real love lasts years. It causes pain, and endures through it.”
“Suffering is part of life,” she said. “All the parts of life are jumbled up together; you can’t separate out just the one thing.”
“I want every moment of my life, pretty man, the painful and the sweet alike. Until the very end. If these are all the memories I get for eternity, I want to take as many of them with me as I can.”
“True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.”
Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
elisavaz's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Rape and Toxic relationship
erinbrenner's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- 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 and Murder
Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Grief, Religious bigotry, Gaslighting, and War
Minor: Confinement, Slavery, Terminal illness, Violence, Medical trauma, Death of parent, and Classism
hannahr's review against another edition
- 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
4.25
Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Rape, Violence, Grief, and Murder
clarabooksit'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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Murder
Moderate: Body horror, Gore, Sexism, and Grief
whatellisreadnext's review against another edition
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
𝘖𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴. 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯'𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘧, 𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴.
Gatherers keep the peace in Gujaareh, harvesting the magic of dreams, helping to heal and to soothe. Ehiru, a gatherer, stumbles upon a wrongness bleeding into the city. Someone, or something, is murdering innocent dreamers.
This duology was released 3 years before The Broken Earth Trilogy (my favourite trilogy of all time), and I can't help but feel like Jemisin hadn't quite found her voice yet as an author. Feeling like only a shadow of her incredible writing in The Fifth Season.
One of the things I loved about Broken Earth, was how attached I was to the characters, that even in their dullest moments, I was happy just to be with them. Whereas, in The Killing Moon, I felt detached, I struggled remembering the names of certain characters, I mixed up Nijiri and Ehiru so many times. It just felt as if I was watching the story unfold, but I was never really a part of it.
Something I did love in The Killing moon, was the magic system. Gatherers harvest dreams, they ease people into pain-free death, they feast on these dreams and become soley dependent on them. This was fascinating to me and is probably the main reason I will be picking up the next installment.
I think if I had gone into this book, not knowing who N.K. Jemisin was, I probably would have enjoyed it so much more. Don't let my review put you off, but if you haven't experienced her writing yet, definitely start with The Fifth Season 😁
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, and Grief