Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

Translation State by Ann Leckie

6 reviews

scifi_rat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Medical content, Grief, Xenophobia, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Body horror, Confinement, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Gore, Kidnapping, and Death

Minor: Colonisation and Classism

cleot's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Confinement, Transphobia, Xenophobia, and Gore

Minor: Child abuse and Genocide

Not the author's fault but the narrator for the audiobook mispronounces the neopronoun "hir" as "her" quite frequently.

msawyer77's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence and Child death

Minor: Child abuse, Xenophobia, Violence, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, and Classism

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Blood, Bullying, and Rape

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, Death, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Cannibalism, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Xenophobia, Cursing, Body horror, Child abuse, Gaslighting, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Sexual content and Child death

displacedcactus's review against another edition

emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

Every time I read a new Ann Leckie book, I'm chasing that high of the first time I read Ancillary Justice and reignited my dormant love of science fiction. And I never quite reach those heights again, but it's always an enjoyable trip anyway.

Translation State brings us back to the universe of the Imperial Radch trilogy, but as with Provenance, we're outside Radchai space, seeing the world through different perspectives. This time around we have three narrators who find themselves on a collision course with each other, each trying to deal with what they think are their individual personal issues, but which could combine to have far-reaching ramifications.

I found the pacing a little slow on this one, and if not for Leckie's great world building, I might have DNFed it at some points due to being a bit bored, but over all I'm glad I stuck with it as the ending was pretty rewarding. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Child abuse

Due to linguistic quirks of the various cultures in this book, there's some rampant misgendering that goes on, especially in the last third or quarter of the book.

milliemudd's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Cannibalism, Deportation, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, and Violence