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Dioses de jade y sombra by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

40 reviews

seadeepy's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Blood, Religious bigotry, and Classism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexism, and Suicide

Minor: Sexual content

allisonmspiers's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Stalking, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Ableism, Racism, Sexual content, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, and Colonisation

kappafrog's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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: Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Suicide, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Minor: Body horror, Cursing, Misogyny, Cannibalism, Murder, Cultural appropriation, and Alcohol

gotem's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

Quick to start the plot moving, which is much appreciated, with world building built between the chapters. Theres a nod to a Shakespeare style of formatting the story, which once I picked up on it was much easier to understand the storytelling layout. Great book, looking forward to reading more of this author's works.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

sexytinatrainconductress's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Physical abuse

lisvaldez19's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring 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

Minor: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Religious bigotry

emily_mh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.5

Unfortunately I didn't super enjoy my time with this one. This is a quest narrative but it didn't do the job as one for me. I think the beauty of a quest narrative is that you don't really know where it's going - as a reader you have knowledge of an end point and an initial plan, but something will throw the hero off course to keep you on your toes. However, the narrative followed the initial plan in a really linear and repetitive way, with only minor obstacles for Casiopea and Hun-Kamé (until the end). 

I did like the narrative voice as I found it unique and it had a fairytale-like quality to it. However, it came at the cost of feeling distanced from Casiopea and her inner-world. A final thing I didn't like about the book was how quickly Casiopea and Hun-Kamé fell in love. Even though we are told this happened slowly, they had only known each other for a few weeks so I just didn't find this believable.

So I was especially frustrated that they were both so close to throwing in the towel because of this love.

Also, I really don't like the immortal/mortal trope especially as Casiopea is only 18. 

Despite these negatives, there were a lot of positives too! I really enjoyed the opposing development of Casiopea and Hun Kamé, how they were switching from mortal to immortal or vice versa, and how they learned more about their initial state through the other's journey. I really liked where Casiopea ended up overall, too. Speaking of the ending, the last 50 pages were really fantastic - gripping and satisfying. And I really loved reading and learning about Mayan mythology too, like the duality of Xibalba that was cleverly reflected in so many other parts of the narrative. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Slavery, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation

Minor: illness, colourism, ethnic racism, volcano, self-injury, insects, hurricane, earthquake

radianest's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

I enjoyed this book! The story was quite beautiful, but I wasn't a big fan of the style. There would be dialogue and between a question and an answer there would be 3 additional paragraphs, so much extra that by the time I got to the answer I forgot the question and had to look back!

With all that, I like that it is a living myth, if that makes sense. And Casiopea is a hero. I loved the talk about dreams, names, and the importance of words. And in the end, the importance of kindness.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Blood

daniellekat's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

I’m a big fan of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and this book did not disappoint. The writing was beautiful and I loved the traditional “two people on a quest” storytelling. The narrative wasn’t particularly surprising or novel but I really enjoyed the Mexican mythology throughout. I have been in a bit of a reading slump and this was exactly what I needed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Physical abuse, and Suicide

Minor: Body horror and Racism

lauramparis's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, and Blood

Minor: Physical abuse and Racism