Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

145 reviews

el_viral's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad 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

This book, it was just a wonderful read. The characters are well fleshed out, with their own voices and their own story arcs. It is both cosy and perilous - a combination that should be hard to balance but is done with aplomb. The romances were heartwarming and heartbreaking, but not the main focus of the book - I am happy to have romances in books, but prefer it if they are woven in rather than stealing the limelight. I can't recommend this book enough and can't wait to read the rest of the series!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Violence

refrejarator's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing tense fast-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

No joke, this is now my favourite book. I've never had one before, so this means a lot to me. 

The Long Way was refreshing, healing, humorous, and reflective in ways that made my heart hurt and my chest light. This is exactly what I needed in my life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Alcohol, Hate crime, Medical content, Racial slurs, War, Grief, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma

Racism and xenophobia is applied to extra terrestrial creatures, does not relate to POCs. There are neo pronouns and they/them pronouns as plural (significant to plot and not derogatory).

_david_'s review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

For the first time in a long while I cried while reading. Not only that, but I cried twice withing half an hour. First in a sad way, then in a happy way.

I cannot remember any book who had this many rounded characters written in such an excellent way. The whole crew of the Wayfarer was made up out of characters who each had their own unique stories and personalities. Each character was put in the spotlight multiple times without it feeling jarring.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Grief, Confinement, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcohol, Colonisation, Chronic illness, Religious bigotry, Violence, and Death

Minor: Cultural appropriation, Incest, War, Xenophobia, Dementia, Drug use, Gun violence, and Medical content

There is a main characters with a big focus on their clan being led by a religion/cult. The present main belief is quite similar to anti-vaccination/medicine mindsets. Character's name

Ohan/Sianat pair

How the arch goes

the main cast meets people who questioned the religion and now went against its beliefs and feel free. Ohan sticks with their belief, this leads to them almost dying. When they're about to die, somebody gives them a medicine and forces Ohan to give up their religion. Ohan is happy about it afterwards.

corrin_reads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

The writing was good, I enjoyed the world building! However, there were times that the non-human characters felt like secondary bits used as tools to move the character development of human characters forward, and some of the characters definitely felt common/classic to the sci-fi genre (🔥✈️)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Violence, Terminal illness, Racism, Gun violence, and Death

linblythe_pub22's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Grief

Minor: Child death, Medical content, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Suicide attempt, War, Terminal illness, Xenophobia, Sexual content, and Blood

rey_starcatcher's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective fast-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? No

5.0

This book has become quite a comfort to me.  There’s one small part that pings a personal anxiety, but I just skip over it when I re-read.  It’s so worth it to experience this phenomenal story!!  The cast of characters is fascinating and delightful.  Everyone is so unique, but everyone is also fleshed out enough that you really do have a strong sense of them all.  I grew attached to them all almost immediately.  I am not one to normally re-read books, but I think I read this 3 times last year.  It’s a delight, and I hope you think so too!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment and Grief

Moderate: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, War, Terminal illness, and Xenophobia

Minor: Torture, Blood, and Death

dev921's review

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Classism, Cursing, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Death, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, War, Genocide, Grief, and Gun violence

miles's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

Absolutely loved it. There are so many things to mention and I’m already scrambling to try and remember them all for this review, but my god am I in love with the world-building in this book (and the series as a whole). 

First of all, all the crew members are absolutely lovely and the ones you don’t like at first, you still warm up to (at least I did, and there was only the one for me). Either way, they are all very compelling characters and I wish we could stay with them for longer, but the book does a very good job in giving us insight into all of their personal and cultural backstories and it’s brilliantly done. 

On that note, love love love all the different species and cultures Chambers has cooked up. Some very interesting stuff and lots to make you ponder about our society and how it might be changed for the better. Though I feel like for some of the things I’d love to implement, we’d have to start from scratch (which is a-ok by me tbh). I absolutely love Aandrisk family structure and relations and would honestly love to have our society work like that. 

But yeah, so much good shit, 10/10 will absolutely revisit at some point in the future. Effortlessly queer. Found family. So bloody lovely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, and Death

Moderate: Grief and Xenophobia

Minor: War

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing 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

I've been looking forward to reading this one for a long time, and it was well worth the wait. I absolutely loved this! The characters are so fun, and the world building delves deeply into each race's culture and mannerisms in such interesting ways. It's lower action than most scifi, so it won't be everyone's favorite. It reminded me a lot of Firefly and Titan AE. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, War, Gun violence, Violence, Death, Terminal illness, and Grief

Moderate: Police brutality, Racism, Racial slurs, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, and Injury/Injury detail

anxiety from trauma, ableism

greystory's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

• 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? No

5.0

Don't ask me to chart the narrative arc because I have no idea but I enjoyed this a lot. It was fun, lighthearted despite covering some heavy topics, had a great diverse cast (alien diversity, not intrahuman diversity), and good worldbuilding. Refreshing science fiction.

I cried for the last bit of the book and I did not see that coming. 

I have a feeling this is the kind of book that I'll catch myself thinking about weeks, months from now. I'll be talking about something or reading something else or watching a movie or whatever and I'm going to relate it back to this book.

I'm intrigued at the world Chambers has built here and I'm very interested to see more. I have so many questions and there are so many opportunities to explore of this universe. I'm happy to have the fortune of starting this series when there's a full four books available so I can dive right into the next one.

I own a physical copy of the book but ended up listening to the audiobook. The narration is great and I thought it added well to the personality of the characters. I think half the reason I found Kizzy to be so fun was the way she was voiced.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Police brutality, Death, Terminal illness, and Grief

Minor: War and Vomit