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kittykaz's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Blood, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic
winglesswarrior's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Death of parent, and Gaslighting
Minor: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Child death, Physical abuse, and Rape
markwillnevercry's review against another edition
2.0
Reading notes:
Why did he throw away the alarm? Shouldn't he keep carrying it to attract the dead?
And the community is just okay with Bud basically killing someone, by making them a bait and not fully informing them?
Now Peter is going to take over Mr Schmidt's job? Where is this story going?
Bro, the sex scene, bring out the fans, bois, it be steamin hot.
I have a feeling, that the writer of this book is not too fond of capitalism, seeing how Cooper reacts to the idea of wanting to be born before shit hit the fan. (this is never mentioned again, they never again think about being born at some other time)
Did we really need the scene where they kill Essie? Like, there was a bunch of blood already spilled and it does not really make sense to kill her in such a flashy way.
So we just leave the rest of people and have just Peter, Cooper, Tom and Becky????
Graphic: Suicide attempt, Animal death, Gore, Body horror, Death of parent, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Sexism, Sexual content, and Slavery
axel_p's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Body horror, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Slavery, Blood, Death, Excrement, Grief, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Confinement, Violence, and Pedophilia
lilifane's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Probably wouldn't recommend it, but I don't regret buying it. It's really pretty.
Graphic: Trafficking, Violence, Slavery, Blood, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Death, Gun violence, Death of parent, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail
numerous_bees's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
The first issue I ran into was that the author uses a lot of similes in an attempt to create a voice for the character and I found them be distracting and occasionally inappropriate for the situation.
The second thing - the one that really turned me off - is the sudden slavery/sexual assault plot point that shows up at about the 75% mark, lingers for a couple of chapters, and is dropped and barely brought up again. The sex abuse in particular is completely out of left-field, totally uncalled for, and adds nothing. I'm of the opinion that something that serious needs to justify it's presence in a story, and this didn't.
The racism metaphor that followed the slavery plot point only served to highlight the lack of racial diversity in the cast.
Finally, the climax is emotionally hobbled by how little we see of Peter and Cooper's community - the main(?) villain gets an emotional monologue where they try to justify their decisions, but they'vebarely featured in the story to this point and, despite Peter waxing poetic about how many happy memories they had together, we didn't see those events and Peter hadn't thought about them until that point, and I simply didn't care about this character or their motivations.
It's a shame, because I think that the concept of a queer romance novel set against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse has a lot of potential, but this book isn't really that. It starts off as a romance but ends as a survival adventure, and I don't think it did a good job of transitioning between the two genres.
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, Slavery, Trafficking, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, and Sexual assault
Minor: Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, and Physical abuse
jjjreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
Graphic: Medical trauma, Trafficking, Blood, Murder, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Slavery, Terminal illness, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Classism, Cannibalism, Child death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence
Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content