Reviews tagging 'Gaslighting'

Translation State by Ann Leckie

7 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

keya_caivalur's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

If you're into politics, you'll like this book. I'm not into politics so I was not the intended audience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Blood, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Blood, Confinement, Deportation, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Body horror, Death, Dysphoria, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Classism, Gaslighting, Rape, and Abandonment

Minor: Trafficking, Transphobia, and War

evrunira's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Abandonment, Colonisation, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

maryellen's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Blood, and Body horror

bkwrm1317's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful mysterious 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

5.0

Leckie does it again (zero surprises there). 

Another installment in the Radch universe that has kept SF fans happy for the last number of years, Translation State brings the reader together with three seemingly incredibly disparate characters: Enae, Qven, and Reet.

Qven, sweet but complicated and mildly terrifying Qven, created to become a Presger Translator, and whose future is forever changed by the behavior of one of their peers from another clade.

Reet, adopted by loving parents, and without direction in life nor knowledge of where they come from gets some answers they were seeking, but he's unsure he likes the answers.

And Enae, thrust into the world of diplomacy after the death of hir grandmaman, and on the hunt for a fugitive who disappeared two centuries previous.

Across the stars, and the course of this novel, the reader becomes enmeshed in their lives, and gets to see how and why they intersect. Some of our previous friends show up as well, in the form of other species and people with their own interests in the future of the Treaty as a Conclave approaches. This novel asks us what is family? How do we determine and define where we belong? Are we our genes or are we something greater if we choose? How do we fight back against those who would push us towards decisions that serve only themselves, and not us?

As usual, Leckie had me turning pages late into the night, through the afternoon, and devouring another Imperial Radch universe novel in this gripping and delightful standalone. 

CWs in no particular order but from most to least severe: gore, colonization, emotional manipulation/abuse, death, dismemberment, cannibalism, blood. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Colonisation, Death, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Blood and Cannibalism

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

smoakwithwifi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Violence, Deportation, Police brutality, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, Blood, Gore, and Xenophobia

Minor: Classism and Vomit