Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks

15 reviews

izypup's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Violence, Torture, Gore, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Confinement

Minor: Terminal illness, Cursing, Cancer, Child death, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Drug use, War, and Classism

its_kievan's review against another edition

dark informative tense fast-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

3.5

Very much a Max Brooks book, with all that implies: a story made up of interview transcripts and diary entries, a focus on how modern technology interacts with the natural world, disdain for Silicon Valley tech people and urban arrogance, obsession with Zulu spears, and discussions of Israel's political situation. The only difference between Devolution and World War Z (which in my opinion is the greatest zombie book of all time), is that the latter forced Brooks to go broad and talk about different people around the world. Here, he went small and did a lot of soapboxing. I may have agreed with most of what he said, but it definitely made this book a lot weaker.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Death

Moderate: Eating disorder and Death of parent

escapinginpaper's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, Excrement, Genocide, Islamophobia, and Sexual content

leahrosereads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I love monster stories, always have.  There's something about cryptids that fascinate me, so I'm always interested in reading books centering around one or another. And I got that here with Sasquatch!

I thoroughly enjoyed this story as a whole but found the characters (aside from Mostar) to be so frustrating and pretty unlikeable.  

This is told similarly to WWZ.  There's journal entries, interviews and articles, and honestly, I absolutely love this form of writing.  It made the story come to life!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Eating disorder, Grief, and Mental illness

sydbap's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.0

3.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder

Lots of calorie counting that may be triggering to those with a history of disordered eating.