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kaiiyo's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
What is morality in humanity and what is our future? Should we be scared of our legacy?
Clinging to a future that we're not meant to be a part of only stunts our growth.
Graphic: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Animal death, Confinement, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Blood, Classism, Cursing, Gun violence, Murder, Death, Rape, Sexism, Addiction, Sexual harassment, Violence, Slavery, and Vomit
Minor: Injury/Injury detail and War
norwegianforestreader's review
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and War
queenmackenzie's review
4.5
Now, if you, like me, didn’t realise that this was a sequel to Tchaikovsky’s Dogs of War, and haven’t read that book, don’t worry! Bear Head can be easily enjoyed as its own novel, and there is enough contextual background within the narrative for the reader to understand what came before and why it affected what is currently happening.
It is set in our world, in a near future in which certain animals have been engineered to hold human intelligence and walk among us on two feet. At the time the story takes place, the battle for the rights of these Bioforms has already been fought and won, but things are beginning to deteriorate again, with the issue of ‘Collaring’, an electric collar that would force these creatures to obey their masters without question, being widely debated, just as the earth is slowly falling apart and Mars is being prepared for colonisation.
This is the place our three main characters orbit around. Jimmy Marten is one of the workers sent ahead to prepare the city on one of the planet’s craters; Honey sends a digital copy of her mind there in the hopes of contacting Bees, the mysterious and dangerous Distributed Intelligence that has retreated to Mars to escape being destroyed on Earth; Carole Springer is assisting Warner S. Thompson, a powerful man on Earth with designs at power, in securing a stake in Hell City.
Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Forced institutionalization, Rape, and Violence
Moderate: Medical content