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snowkestrel's review against another edition
1.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Bullying, Genocide, Self harm, Gore, and War
Moderate: Slavery and Misogyny
marimo's review
Awful. I was promised a dark queer fantasy and got a glorified rapist & pedophile, a stupid gender system that's barely explored, and the rep that's delivered on is... lacking. Not nearly as bad as the rest, but it also introduced eight povs in twenty one chapters, one of which had TWENTY ENTIRE CHAPTERS between a character's introduction chapter and their following one, by which I'd completely forgotten she existed. That itself is a crime. I need fantasy (and scifi) authors to realize that the flipped dynamic of women dominating men is tiresome unless you use it to say something about society or the world you've built (because why else would you write it that way?) but instead of that Kameron Hurley sure did deliver on the abusive rapist war criminal front. Thank god for that.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Blood
Moderate: Pedophilia
laisai's review
I got about 1/3 of the way through the book, trying very hard to see if it would get better. Perhaps it did in the end, but it was too dark and painful for me to read personally, though the world-building and especially the way the author wrote about gender was very, very interesting. In the end, there were just too many difficult, graphic topics for me to handle. Wish I would have known before starting that this is typical for Kameron Hurley's writing. The back-cover summary did not prepare me for the contents, unfortunately.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cannibalism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Rape
Moderate: Death and Gore
alexalily's review
adventurous
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cannibalism, Genocide, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence
Moderate: Blood, Domestic abuse, Gore, Self harm, Slavery, Ableism, Child death, and Death
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