Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

5 reviews

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

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

yrioona's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful tense 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? Yes

4.0

This started off clunkier than its predecessor, with some sections in the early middle that felt a little predictable/cliché, but I got very attached to the characters as the story went on, and the author is super adept at portraying dramatic cognitive shifts / jumping among truly alien subjectivities. Overall I liked "children of time" better but I was so grateful for the chance to spend more time with these characters and concepts. We love a cranky immortal cyborg made of ants. [Semi spoiler] The author's grand-scale optimism about overcoming conflict and achieving interplanetary cooperation based on mutual curiosity and shared imagination is also refreshing and sweet. I like that this is hard sci fi without cynicism or heavy-handed pessimism - definitely escapist but also clever and detail-packed and strange. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual assault