Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

Babel by R.F. Kuang

126 reviews

august_rhea's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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: Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Blood, Murder, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Islamophobia, Medical content, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Classism

Minor: Vomit, War, Pandemic/Epidemic

jamieintherain's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Trafficking, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Drug use

atamano's review against another edition

3.0

dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Pandemic/Epidemic

hermes_uralt's review against another edition

3.25

emotional informative mysterious sad 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: Complicated

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Interessanter fiktionaler Blick auf den historisch realen Kolonialismus, eingebettet in eine nicht immer ganz logische, aber überwiegend lesenswerte Geschichte. Die für mich nicht immer nachvollziehbaren Reaktionen der Charaktere habe mein Lesevergnügen stellenweise etwas beeinträchtigt.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, Pandemic/Epidemic

liapyon's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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: Yes

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Best book I’ve read this year. Cried though. Like. Really hard

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic

maximumgoblin's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Classism

Minor: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Slavery, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic

bron01's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infidelity, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Death of parent, Cultural appropriation, Toxic friendship

Minor: Homophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, War, Deportation, Pandemic/Epidemic

anastasiamakes's review against another edition

5.0

challenging informative sad 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: Complicated

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This is written so well - if the size and perceived "density" is putting you off reading this book, don't let it, it's surprisingly easy to read. Honestly, it's a real testament to judicious editing, because I think this could have easily been bulked out to a trilogy, and yet everything in this single (admittedly large) book is perfectly fleshed out.

By it's nature, this book obviously spends a lot of time devoted to the topic of colonialism, but personally I found it so expertly and inextri ably woven through the plot that it never felt like I was just being lectured at, which I can struggle with with some more political books.

The characters were fantastic and all had just so much depth to them and their motivations.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia

Moderate: Trafficking, Murder, Toxic friendship, War

Minor: Sexism, Torture, Religious bigotry, Pandemic/Epidemic

clifford19691's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Fiction with footnotes (the footnotes are also fictional)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

libeau's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Grief, Colonisation, War, Classism

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic