Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

92 reviews

sleepye's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Kidnapping, Murder, and Death

Minor: Child death, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Gun violence, Stalking, Violence, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Medical content

roschelle's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

The writing in this was so descriptive and immersive that I felt like I was back in the Covid times. I had some stressful dreams on the nights I read this before bed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Death

Minor: Rape, Death of parent, Child death, and Emotional abuse

purplatypus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Murder, Death, Kidnapping, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Rape, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

mbelle97's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gun violence, and Death

Moderate: Grief, Child death, Death of parent, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide, Stalking, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Pregnancy, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

content warning: cults, religious zealots

rosa_lina96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-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

3.5

A haunting, somewhat bittersweet book about life after a global pandemic wipes out a good 98% of humanity (which becomes somewhat harsher in hindsight after going through the debacle that was Covid, but I digress). The writing was tight, I have to say. Poetic and meaningful, and the jumps back and forth that we got timeline-wise actually seemed to make sense to me. I'm also just a sucker for stories that deal with how humans can band together (or vice versa) in times of great strife, as well as speculative fiction about post-apocalyptic scenarios, and the main characters being part of a traveling symphony of performers just managed to scratch some itch within me to a satisfying degree. I'd honestly love to see that subject matter handled in more post-apocalyptic stories. You're telling me there's simply no performance art to be found anywhere after society collapses? No way for people to just take their minds off of how shitty their situation is even for a couple of hours? I call humbug. 

Rating it a bit lower because there were certain plot points that didn't end up being as well-developed as I thought they could be--what about these "ferals" that we keep hearing about, are they crazed from the illness or something else, and what the heck happened outside of America throughout this entire societal collapse, and are there larger settlements outside of this very particular region that we deal with in the book, and how exactly are they managing to cultivate food without certain technological measures? Some characters felt rather woefully underdeveloped as well, and I'm sorry, but the identity of who the cult leader more than likely was was a twist I saw coming from a mile away. 

Still, it was a pretty solid book. I look forward to reading more from this author sometime in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide and Murder

Minor: Child death and Adult/minor relationship

kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

not much to say about this one! if i had to compare, sea of tranquility was much more interesting and i liked it better, but this is a solid book as well! 

im sleepy so no long review; the writing is very nice on the eyes and the shifting perspectives actually really enhanced the story instead of just breaking it up for forced suspense like in some books. would recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Religious bigotry, Child death, and Suicide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Child abuse

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

adammuly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic and Death

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Violence, Infidelity, and Suicide

washingmachineoverlord's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

A beautiful, mesmerizing, story of hope at the end of the world. A novel that goes beyond a simple post apocalyptic story and becomes a study on the meaning of art, humanity, love, and how these things are all intertwined.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Murder

berodatheelf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

A rich dystopian novel that focuses on several characters pre and post pandemic that is lyrically written. It was an interesting deep dive into the psyche of humans and humanity itself.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Death, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Medical content, Child death, Grief, Suicide, Religious bigotry, and Death of parent

grace_en's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Suicide