Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

2 reviews

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

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