Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

10 reviews

lazmataz's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Murder, Medical content, Death, Grief, Animal death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Misogyny, Sexism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: War, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide

Minor: Transphobia and Vomit

softanimal's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Alcohol, and Animal death

Moderate: Xenophobia, Gun violence, War, and Grief

Minor: Sexism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Transphobia, and Vomit

mr_cain's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Fascinating concepts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Pandemic/Epidemic, Terminal illness, Gore, Blood, Murder, Body horror, Animal death, Death, Chronic illness, and Grief

Moderate: Blood

Minor: War, Misogyny, Death of parent, Gun violence, and Confinement

anni_swanilda's review against another edition

dark funny informative mysterious medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Alcohol, and Body horror

Moderate: Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Misogyny

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, and War

blacksphinx's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Terminal illness, Medical content, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Gore, War, and Vomit

Minor: Transphobia, Sexism, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and Xenophobia

Minor: Drowning

thesupermassive's review

dark informative mysterious

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

For as short as this book was it did not feel it and I had to stretch it over a few days. Incredible what Kingfisher did with the idea of the House of Usher and how she stretched it into a beautifully written tale with a new original character at the centre

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Death

Moderate: War, Medical content, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Animal death

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Solid horror, very creepy, super cool universe--love how the main character's culture has a distinctly gendered soldier class that many readers would classify as non-binary. Also one of the only books I've read with a character with tinnitus, whose disability was well integrated in the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Chronic illness, Body horror, Confinement, Grief, and Medical content

Minor: Death of parent, Suicide, Ableism, Classism, Self harm, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Vomit

remimicha's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical trauma, Medical content, Grief, Death, Chronic illness, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, War, Violence, Body horror, and Alcohol

marshiereads's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I would really recommend reading the fall of the house of the ushers or the Wikipedia page for it before reading this book so that way it makes sense! I stopped about 25% of the way through and had a much better go of it after doing so! I really liked it! I listened in audiobook format and the narrator did a great job! The pace was slow in the right spots and fast in the same way. Overall an enjoyable Novella if you like horror!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Animal death, War, Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Gore, and Murder

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, War, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Chronic illness, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, and Medical content

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Suicide attempt and Suicide