Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

16 reviews

gayghostprince's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

I'm sad wtf :'(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Gun violence, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Death, Violence, Suicide, Body horror, Child death, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cursing, Child abuse, Mental illness, War, Vomit, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, Medical content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Cancer, War, Chronic illness, and Suicidal thoughts

cw for lobotomies and brief apocalypse mentions

bookspaperink's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, and Medical content

Moderate: Blood, Cursing, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Violence, and War

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Sexual content, and Vomit

olivia_manes's review against another edition

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

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child death, Colonisation, and War

paperbrownies's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

- lgbtqiap+, sci-fi, sff, post-apocalyptic world, lesbians in space, disaster lesbians, necromancy
- f|f, and for the rest zips mouth
- polyamory, lesbian MCs, and other queer characters

i think the best way to describe my reading htn is 45% wtf-is-even-happening and the rest being oh-God-this-cant-be-happening in the best and worst possible way!! 
tazmuir has created such an enigmatic world filled with the most devious characters, and dad jokes, it blows my mind every time i think about it!!
honestly,,,, OBSESSED with this world and i cant wait for the next book!! 

cw: vomitting, extreme blood and gore, body horror, eating disorder, grief, hallucinations, skeletons, bones, brief description of drowning, violence, attempt to murder and child death, genocide (offpage), cannibalism, self-amputation, suicide ideation, war.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Cannibalism, Blood, Body horror, War, Violence, Suicide attempt, Grief, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Death

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Cursing, Death of parent, Eating disorder, and Mental illness

Minor: War and Sexual content

ehmannky's review

challenging dark 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? Yes

5.0

Truly wild and I was totally lost about 80% of the time and this is maybe one of the best books I've read this year. This is just such a profoundly different kind of fantasy/science fiction book and I adore it. 

So much of it is in a second-person narrative, and I barely even noticed it (until the twist comes in and I screamed--totally forgot about this twist on the second read through).  I feel like it would have been so easy to just stick with the irreverent humor of Gideon and weirdness of the first book for the entirety of the sequel, but Muir takes so many risks that pay off dramatically and it's so great. The humor is still there, but it's just coupled with a lot of deep feelings. It's a maddening and spectacular book.

Even knowing the twist at the end just enhanced the book for me. I felt there was so much foreshadowing and hints about what is to come that I just did not recognize the first time I read through it (because the first time I read it I felt I was being gaslit and was just trying to stay afloat) and it's just a delight to read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Gaslighting, Death, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Genocide, Child death, Death of parent, and War