Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

8 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

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

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

parablesarah's review

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No

2.75

This one didn't work for me. I found it difficulI to connect with the characters and spent a lot of the book agreeing that those who died in the first cataclysm were better off. 

If I were in the mood for a big sprawling apocalyptic page turner, I would read The Stand again rather than Swan Song. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

wormgirl's review

dark mysterious tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, War, Sexual violence, Antisemitism, Trafficking, Violence, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Racial slurs

Minor: Suicide attempt, Torture, Drug use, Trafficking, Adult/minor relationship, and Abandonment