Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

7 reviews

gnomeguy1138's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Body horror, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

valjeanval's review against another edition

adventurous 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

This is definitely one of my new favorite series. I wasn’t sure wher Tchaikovsky could go after CoT, but I felt this one really lived up to the vastness and complexity of that story. Also, I love octopuses. Really the most frustrating element is trying to explain the concept to someone and convince them it’s actually a very serious, intelligent series. Spiders and  Cephalopods in space sounds way too goofy.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Death, Body horror, Genocide, and Medical content

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

iono's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, and Confinement

Moderate: Sexism, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Minor: Child abuse and Sexual assault

mar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

i genuinely and wholeheartedly believe that this series is some of THE most solid and innovative hard science fiction in like, the last decade or two. holy shit.

also, unrelatedly, this book pulls off the "line that sounds perfectly ordinary and innocent out of context but is absolutely bone-chilling in context" thing SO well. "we're going on an adventure!" is going to haunt me forever

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Body horror and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual assault

cookiecat73's review against another edition

adventurous dark slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, Physical abuse, Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, War, Animal death, Grief, Genocide, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Minor: Abandonment, Child abuse, Colonisation, and Sexual content

carkazone's review

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Dysphoria

Minor: War and Murder

pkledgrape's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Body horror and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death

Minor: Sexual assault