Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

La parábola del sembrador by Octavia E. Butler

15 reviews

madelinekramer2021's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cannibalism, Child death, Classism, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Violence

beegster16's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Mass/school shootings, and Sexual assault

Minor: Slavery, Incest, and Pedophilia

dizzy_mittz's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Gore, Murder, Rape, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual violence, Blood, Death of parent, Slavery, Torture, Vomit, Death, Cannibalism, and Gun violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Child death, and Abandonment

If you can handle the content, it’s a very sobering read - you may even find some hope in it. I highly recommend this book. I will, however, not be diving directly into the rest of the series. Breaks will be necessary if you are emotionally swayed by your reading - I should have taken more while reading.

lyunahal's review against another edition

The relationship between Lauren and Bankole

was really disappointing to me because it felt out of character for Lauren. I know that

she just lost her father, but beyond one line, the topic of her essentially replacing her father with Bankole wasn't explored more deeply, so I felt unsatisfied.

Rest of the book was good though 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Gun violence, Classism, Death of parent, Trafficking, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, and Sexual content

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

The very beginning of the book is very preachy, well a lot of this book is preachy because it's literally the story of a young woman creating her own religion. I'd say the story was overall enjoyable despite the preachiness of it all. I really enjoyed the way this was written and how, it started out hopeless, like a lot of Butler's works. Then, there's a little light at the end of the tunnel and the story suddenly becomes hopeful.

This is my second time reading Parable of the Sower and I finally understand that it's about community and keeping one another safe. Protecting one another in crisis. That is the answer to the question, "what do we do when disaster strikes?"

I also love the diversity in this book. The characters were very diverse like all other Butler books.

The beginning of the book was a bit slow even though the book was interesting overall. Therefore, I'm giving this 4.5 stars out of 5.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Incest, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Sexual violence, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Murder, Cursing, Slavery, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Mental illness, Body horror, Cannibalism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death, Sexual harassment, and Physical abuse