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Gloam by Lily Mayne

8 reviews

inadequacyinabucket's review

emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, Gore, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Cannibalism, War, and Torture

haileeraye's review

dark funny hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gore, and Physical abuse

vania_alex's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Sexual content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, Violence, Trafficking, Slavery, and Kidnapping

Minor: Alcohol, Cursing, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Hate crime

unsuccessfulbookclub's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.5

This is maybe the sweetest but also scariest in the series yet. I enjoyed the mix of raider camp and journey story lines and I loved how Rig and Gloam worked together to face all of the obstacles they encountered together. Gloam is the sweetest smartest boi and Rig is so happy and dedicated to him. Love love love.

The dystopian hellscape vibe is super strong in this and there are a lot of really gory scenes so just be ready. Lily doesn’t pull any punches with this installment. The body horror and blood/trauma is especially graphic.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Confinement, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Cursing, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Sexual content, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, and War

Moderate: Cannibalism

alisoun's review

adventurous dark emotional tense

5.0

I loved this one so much. Adam/Rig is truly selfless in his wish to help Gloam which is so true to him - we first see it with Aury. His motivation made perfect sense to me. 

I felt like sometimes things came to Adam too easily but on the other hand I also feel like he was actually good at being out in the wastes and just never got the chance to use the skills he definitely developed living in a raider camp. 

This is truly, so far, my fav book in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Medical content, Medical trauma, Blood, Violence, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Body horror, Torture, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Cannibalism and Religious bigotry

cluckieduck's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content, Violence, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Slavery, Torture, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Cannibalism

zellapaige's review

adventurous slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

The trust that these two build with each other is utterly adorable. Gloam is a super fun species and I loved learning about his background.

I hope the cannibal cult gets addressed later in the series. Something remarkable to me about this series and the way the author has set it up is how well loose ends are being tied up over the course of the series. It was super frustrating early in the series for random characters, like Collector Mary, to be mentioned in throw-away lines without follow-up. I'm really appreciating it now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Torture, Trafficking, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Murder, Sexual content, Confinement, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

acreatureofbooksandtea's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Cannibalism, Cursing, Drug use, and Murder