Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Feed by Mira Grant

18 reviews

blushyfan's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? No

5.0

The ending makes me cry every time I read through it and this is the 5th time I went through this book! I'm excited to finally get a chance to read the rest of this series

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

drakaina16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

simonlorden's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

yeah, overall I ended up liking this book more the second time. I still can't forgive the way the female candidate was written, though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, and Murder

yellow_ylugbug's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Murder, Body horror, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Animal death, and Car accident

thepermageek's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad 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

5.0

More thriller than horror…which I was totally one with because Mira Grants world building in simply incredible!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Blood, Animal death, Cannibalism, Car accident, Gun violence, and Murder

Minor: Vomit and Child death

generallycobalt's review against another edition

challenging dark informative tense fast-paced

5.0

This series was my introduction to Mira Grant, and now I have multiple shelves dedicated solely to this incredibly prolific (and epidemiologically well-informed) author. Also she's a delightful individual.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Gore, Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Violence, Animal death, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Incest

Incest doesn't show up in the first one, and isn't teeeeechnically incest since the characters are not biologically related, but the fact that it's one of the healthier relationships in the setting is much more damning of the setting than it is an endorsement of adopted siblings getting intimate. I didn't think it was done in a gross way, but anybody with personal incest trauma absolutely needs to know going in that it's gonna come up.

careinthelibrary's review against another edition

adventurous funny sad fast-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

4.0

 That blog post got me 12 years ago when I first read this and it just got me again 😭😭

I notice the normalized disability rep and aro/ace coded main character this time around and appreciate the (even if it was unknown to me at the time) contribution to my bookish upbringing those years ago.

Original review 👇🏼
This novel is a successful blend of zombies, politics and blogging. There's just enough of each element to make it appeal to many different readers, some of which are not entirely comfortable with all three elements. I myself was not fully on board with the blogging side of the novel, but I was converted easily. 
Feed is one of the best books I've read, and it changed my outlook on life. Sure, it's a "zombie" book, but it's got depth. It's a book that shows true familial love, loyalty to one's beliefs, and what it means to be alive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, Death, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, Child death, Suicide, and Terminal illness

theoldestbennetsister's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gun violence, and Child death

Moderate: Car accident, Religious bigotry, Ableism, and Body horror

c_dmckinney's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Mira Grant writes horror that chills my bones. I reread this series often but this first one is my favorite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Grief, Murder, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Car accident, Classism, Cursing, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, and Gaslighting

Minor: Incest, Medical content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

zombies, extremely good and sound virology,

several main characters including the main pov protagonist die, also there's hints confirmed in later books that the two main characters are in an incestuous relationship

starrysteph's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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

4.25

Feed was ... not at all what I expected! Yes, it's a novel that takes place in a world with zombies. But it's not quite a "zombie story". It's a story about politics and journalism, media frenzies and manipulation, with clever satire, elements of horror and sci fi, and great character development. 

It involves the undead, but that aspect is surprisingly well thought-out and believable. (It's life in a pandemic, which cuts a little too close to reality - and really you could replace the zombies in this novel with a number of life-threatening events that are have happened or are currently happening). 

The world building of the bloggers (the Newsies, Irwins, and Fictionals; the way they gained the trust of the public, etc.) was SO detailed and fun. The characters each had unique voices and quirks and levels of reliability.

And the tension building ... ooo. Every time they took one of those infection tests, I was SWEATING. And I never felt secure about the fate of our characters during scenes of intense zombie action, which I can appreciate. 

It's not a perfect book - I can see how our narrator Georgia might be grating (I found her endearing ... but also, who hates animals that much?), the brother/sister relationship was a little peculiar, and there are some sections that lag. But overall? It was fantastic.

CW: death, gore, blood, animal death, child death, death of a parent, suicide, vomit, murder, body horror, chronic illness, medical content, cannibalism, religious bigotry

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Cannibalism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Death of parent, Child death, Chronic illness, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Confinement, Death, Vomit, Drug use, Excrement, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, and Forced institutionalization