Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

The Bladed Faith by David Dalglish

4 reviews

leedolee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book was insanely good and I am still processing what I just read. It's been a long while since a book last blew my mind. 

Every single thing about this book is the definition of chef's kiss. The characters were all uniquely different and fun to read about. The overall plot kept me wanting to see what happened next. And just the sheer world building was absolutely beautiful. 

Consider me a fan and I am excited to jump into the next book immediately! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Torture, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Transphobia, Confinement, Death of parent, Genocide, Violence, War, Excrement, Hate crime, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Death, Misogyny, Colonisation, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Police brutality

Moderate: Alcohol

booksthatburn's review against another edition

It’s possible that this would turn out to be foreshadowing the discovery that this guy is bad, but I was offput by a conversation where the fantasy arms dealer CEO explains that it’s fine for him to pay for revolutions with funds gotten from selling arms to the colonizers, thus making more money as they buy more weapons to put down the revolutions he’s funding. Oh also he’s a tragic gay widower whose husband died for one of those revolutions. I’m uninterested in pinkwashing arms dealers who enable colonizers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, Colonisation, Sexual harassment, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, and War

Minor: Excrement and Rape

grimdark_dad's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, War, Religious bigotry, Blood, Death, Alcohol, Child death, Genocide, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

paper_bound's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.0

Great!

Overall I enjoyed this book quite a lot. Upon starting, I fell into the normal pattern for me and fantasy- it's a bit of a slog but I know I'm enjoying the story - and by the end I was begging for the second book to be out now.

While it slowed the plot some, I appreciated that time was taken to train Cyrus and to build to the height of the revolution. (hint: it took a few years). I found that acknowledgement of time realistic and helped make the hero actually believable. No Mary Sue here.

The action is amazing. Every chapter someone was getting their butt kicked and I loved it.

I am really looking forward to getting to know the characters even better in the second book, especially after some of the reveals at the end of the first.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Transphobia and Homophobia

Explores the conquering of another people/country. The bad they do is clearly seen as bad.