Reviews tagging 'War'

Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

12 reviews

flexxington's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, Trafficking, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Animal death, Cursing, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, War, and Violence

lay_kone's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Medical content, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Chronic illness, Grief, Body horror, Gore, Violence, War, Child death, Torture, Addiction, Drug use, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, and Rape

creativestalkerrs's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

I haven't read a book in such a long time, and although I was intimidated by how big this book was, it was so hard to not put it down. From the characters, to how McCammon describes the worldbuilding. Amazing. A wonderful book for anyone who wants a jaw-dropping, hard-to-put-down story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Racial slurs

terrik_409's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Animal death, Sexual violence, Violence, and War

Moderate: Drug use

windrunner_nyy's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

I loved this book so much, especially after 50% of the book. There’s always hope!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, War, and Gun violence

Moderate: Racial slurs

Minor: Sexual content

inknosedowl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful sad tense slow-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? Yes

4.0

This book truly doesn’t hold any punches. While this on book is mostly post apocalyptic there are different generes that okay into the story that are just as important. The key plot point is fantasy and he writes descriptions of the gore that happens after the holocaust as if they are horror. It’s not anything like I’ve read before in this genre. 
The two main things I have issue with this book is first of all how long it is. It could been a duology making it a little easier to read. The other issue, that I think would plays into separating the book, is character development. He wrote a lot of descriptions of the world and the physical description of people, but did not focus on character development as much as I would’ve liked. Some horrible things happen to the characters and I think I would felt a little more if there were more scenes with connections in them. The story was almost good enough to make up for it though. 
I would for sure check trigger warnings before reading this book it can be very gory in some parts. Over all amazing book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, War, and Violence

faythfarrar's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexual harassment, Violence, Murder, Animal death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Racial slurs, and War

Moderate: Classism, Grief, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Chronic illness, Gun violence, and Religious bigotry

yarnbandit's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.0

If you want to know if the dog dies, the answer is

yes

If you want to know if the horse dies, the answer is

yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Death, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Racial slurs, Animal death, and Torture

cbug412's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

If you're looking for a book chronicling the end of the world via nuclear fallout, this may be up your alley. Fairly gruesome but also quite heartwarming at times. A lot of people compare it to King's The Stand, but any way you look at it, it's the classic good vs. evil story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Addiction, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Violence, Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Gore, Slavery, Animal death, Blood, War, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Confinement, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Ableism, Genocide, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Rape, Drug abuse, Car accident, Medical content, and Chronic illness

wyram's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Xenophobia, and Violence