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The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy

12 reviews

tetrootz's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Vomit, War, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Murder, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Grief, Gore, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Death, Cursing, Bullying, Body horror, Animal death, and Alcohol

Minor: Rape

racheldelaney's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Gun violence, Gore, Body horror, Blood, and Death

booksthatburn's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Murder, Gun violence, Medical content, Vomit, Police brutality, and Suicide

Minor: Rape and Self harm

tahsintries's review

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, and Violence

donutlookaway's review

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Police brutality

Minor: Rape

pupbeat's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

A fun and suspenseful little book, set in a small anarchist community with a very interesting magical being tied to it, a deer with three antlers who is

suprisingly violent compared to what you would expect of a deer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Suicide

breacommelafromage's review

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Murder

softbitten's review

dark hopeful tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Blood, Gore, Violence, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

Minor: Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Vomit, and Rape

aether's review

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.75

An peek through the looking glass into a truly anarchistic town that's watched over by a magical, endless spirit. Even though this is a short novella, I will be thinking about Freedom, Iowa for months to come.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Sexual assault

owenblacker's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

First in a Tor.com collection of 4 queer-authored novellas published for Pride 2018, The Lamb will Slaughter the Lion is a punk fantasy. Alex Brown summarises the tone well in their Tor.com piece Anti-Doorstoppers: 10 Great SFF Novellas and Novelettes: “The story is part rural fantasy, part dark fantasy, and part horror. Think Supernatural but darker and queerer.”

Travelling to the anarchist utopian squatter-community of Freedom, Iowa, to find out why her old friend ran away from his found-family and the home that made him settle down from the road in order to kill himself in a motel room, squatter/nomad Danielle discovers an “eternal spirit” in the form of a blood-red, three-antlered deer is… “protecting”… the community.

With an author who is herself a transfeminine nomad, a queer protagonist and prominent trans secondary characters and characters of colour in the found-family, the story is effortlessly diverse and the setting itself is really interesting: the ancom utopia sounds lovely — but broken, inevitably, otherwise the community wouldn’t have needed to summon their protector, and with it the cost. But this isn’t just a what-happened-next; as KJ Charles puts it:

This is on one level a tense horror novel, where forces of the State and society and male violence are as much a sinister and pervasive threat as the heart-eating magic deer. But, as that suggests, it’s also a meditation on things like society, what anarchism means, how societies enforce rules and what it means to do so and who takes enforcement roles on themselves. How do we keep ourselves decent without a prospect of punishment for those who transgress? Who makes those calls?

And, as Killjoy put it in the book, “the revolution is about taking power away from the oppressors, not becoming them ourselves”.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide and Rape

CN: mention of suicide, mention of rape, animal death, death of a loved one, abuse, violence, gore, state violence