Reviews tagging 'Torture'

Persephone Station by Stina Leicht

9 reviews

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

HOW do you take these concepts and write something as boring as this. also genuinely some of the weakest prose I've ever read, please god combine some of those clauses

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Gore, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Grief, and Colonisation

Minor: Suicide, Trafficking, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

caseymac's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Colonisation

Moderate: Death and War

Minor: Child death and Torture

scifi_rat's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.25

Plot: 3 stars
Prose: 2.5 stars
Pace: 2 stars
Concept/Execution: 3.5 stars/1 stars
Characters: 2 stars
Worldbuilding: 3 stars
Ending: .5 stars

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Genocide, and Alcohol

troisha's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Chronic illness, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Gore, Torture, Vomit, Death of parent, and Alcohol

booksthatburn's review against another edition

 This kept infodumping, telling me how I should feel about something in a kind of irksome way. I don’t mind infodumps of information, but the barrage of info and how I should process felt like I wasn’t being trusted to figure anything out. There was a particular scene right before I stopped reading where a character narrates this whole initial meeting, change of heart, and now strong ties between herself and a person she’s telling us about who’s asleep in the next room. It’s the kind of backstory that either needs its own novella or just two sentences to say where they are now, because the choice to do this in-between thing felt like I was being told about some other story I could have been reading instead. I constantly felt like I had both too much and not enough information about what was happening, and I decided to stop. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

elwirax's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.0

The beginning of "Persephone Station" was quite a struggle to get through with the info dumping and confusing scenes. Howbeit, when the action picked up it was much more enjoyable. The diversity and queerness was great and I appreciated the non binary representation which I rarely have the pleasure of reading about. 

However, I think that "Persephone Station"  tried to do too much which negated from other aspects of the book. I wish there had been more focus on character development rather than action. I found it difficult to care about any of the characters even when their lives were at stake. I was invested in the snippets of backstories- particularily that of Kennedy's- but felt there wasn't enough to create well rounded characters. The world building also lacked full development. Although there are solid explorations of alien species, artificial intelligence and illnesses these were not explored in a satisfactory way, leaving me with many questions. 

Throughout the book there's a secondary storyline that doesn't really mix into the main one until the very end and even then they do not tie up neatly. The ending of this book was wrapped up quite conveniently and with many plot holes

The author tended to use the word "said" so frequently that by the end I found it utterly inffureable. It made the writing seem juvenile (although this may just be a personal irk). 

I had high hopes for this book but for 500 pages It was quite dissapointing. Despite this, if you're into the idea of a predominantly female cast with non stop action then this may be for you. If you're more into character development and world building this is not the book for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Torture and Medical content

Minor: Genocide

reviewsandreadathons's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Violence, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Torture

sirius_feanor's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

I was a bit of struggle for me to get into the story and to understand the whole world setting. But once you get that it's a pretty interesting space action book. Although, sometimes I felt as if I am reading the novelisation of a Sci-Fi TV series.
The best thing about this book was ALL the diversity and representation within characters, and the input into normalisation of using they/them pronouns for a non-binary character.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Torture, and Violence

jamesflint's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture and Violence