Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Translation State by Ann Leckie

8 reviews

eleanora's review

adventurous challenging 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Cannibalism, Body horror, Xenophobia, and Murder

Minor: Death and Police brutality

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

hwesta's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious

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

5.0

This book is so weird and I love it so much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Confinement

Minor: War, Police brutality, Death of parent, Child death, Abandonment, Colonisation, and Death

Lots of thoughts of dismemberment or mentions of it happening to human-like persons in the past

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

hanz's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Confinement, Medical content, Abandonment, Cannibalism, War, and Body horror

naomiysl's review against another edition

5.0

Grappling with the question of what is personhood in a whole new way, in addition to that of what is family. Also more gate-space physics! I really enjoyed this book, though I wish

we had seen the matching scene and heard a first person voice from the combined person of Reet/Qven

I really hope we get that in a future book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Violence, Grief, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Abandonment and Child death

liz_da_biz49's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

Different flavor than the Imperial Radch Trilogy and it can be off putting for that reason if that's what you expect go in.
Three different narrator's prioritizing three different things and despite being 30ish-60ish all precious babies.
Cannibalism, gender, identity, coming of age whenever the fuck you can, and violently insisting on independence from the systems and things that break us.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Police brutality, Racism, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Colonisation, Blood, Body horror, and Panic attacks/disorders

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