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Famine by Laura Thalassa

24 reviews

queerloras's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Higher rating because Famine didn't change. Also responsible sexual behaviour discussions pre-coitus 👍 But God, was that FMC annoying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

viktoriann's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Police brutality, Death of parent, Sexual harassment

devilbunny6's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual assault, Vomit, Death of parent, Alcohol

twinklepuff's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder

kat1105's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

ireadinbed's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark funny hopeful reflective 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

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Read this book so quick! 

Another hit for me! 

Outside of the fact that i thought the language seemed really anachronistic to setting at times i really have no complaints and i think the final book is set up perfectly. 

Again very different main couple! Though more in common with pestilence than war i think.

Wish famine had done less plant growing and more famine stuff though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Trafficking

tiana_king's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional slow-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

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This is by far the slowest of burns. Don’t expect any kisses or spicy scenes until almost the end. However this couple has the best banter of the three so far. Pestilence is still my favorite but this book is a close second. The ending was not what I was expecting at all and I’m so excited to see what happens next!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Torture, Vomit, Medical content

Minor: Physical abuse, Rape

cluckieduck's review against another edition

3.25

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

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A much better entry than Pestilence and War but still just an ok read.

I enjoyed Famine & Ana - like other reviews have mentioned, it was actually quite funny considering the setting. They have good love/hate interactions, which broke up the monotony of the same recycled story of 'oh-he's-a-bad-evil-person-but-he's-so-darn-sexy-that-maybe-I'll-overlook-the-mass-murder-and-stuff' thing.

The ending was quite something, so I'm looking forward to the big reunion.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail

books_bunny's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark funny tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Similar to the previous instalments of this quartet there are content warnings for graphic torture, gore and death with multiple mentions of rape but nothing graphic. In this instalment there was also no animal cruelty or death which was a nice change of pace. 

 

Ana da Silva originally saves the life of the third horseman of the apocalypse Famine. 5 years later they meet again in a new town where Ana is now working as a prostitute at "The Painted Angel". I adored the relationship between these 2 main characters; some of their one liners aimed at each other had me laughing out loud. I also liked the discussions of illnesses mentioned in this book particularly STD's and the risk of infection from untreated wounds. The discussion of STD's was especially appreciated as it is discussed before the first sexual encounter takes place. Due to Ana's job this is a discussion that should have taken place between 2 consenting adults and was nice to see represented instead of just pushing the subject under the rug with the excuse that he is a horseman of the apocalypse so it didn't need to be discussed. 

 

Unfortunately, nothing about this book made me feel or think Brazil and if it hadn’t been explicitly stated that this was where this story is taking place then I would have had no idea. I also found that around the 50-75% mark the book dragged a bit. I found that it could have done with being a bit shorter as it started to get a repetitive with certain topics (both within Ana's thoughts and verbal/physical encounters). However, whilst I found this book repetitive in itself, I was thrilled to see that it didn't follow many of the patterns established in both Pestilence and War, instead finding its own plot points and character opinions. 

 

I was relieved when it picked up again at the end, especially when the ending made a point of linking the book back to the overarching plot of the series which I sometimes forgot about in the previous 2. Additionally, due to all the discussion of Death in this book it has made me super excited to finish this series and pick up Death as soon as possible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit

Minor: Child death, Rape

wolf013's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Trafficking

Minor: Child death, Sexual violence, Vomit, Death of parent