Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Wool by Hugh Howey

5 reviews

cat12345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Violence

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Miscarriage, Body horror, Cursing, Excrement, Infertility, Gore, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Vomit

Minor: Pregnancy, Animal death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Genocide, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, Police brutality, Child abuse, Incest, Stalking, and Bullying

rhgrimes's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Gaslighting, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Blood, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, War, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Miscarriage, and Animal death

mangofraiche's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, Grief, War, Excrement, Gun violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Violence, and Murder

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

I have a pretty low tolerance for bad dystopian fiction due to the YA dystopian craze of the '10s. This definitely exceeded my expectations. A fun time with lots of social commentary. Excited to read on!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Cursing, Gaslighting, Gun violence, and War

Minor: Animal death, Incest, and Miscarriage

wthanyell's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

The first few chapters of this book really got me into this one, Hugh Howey sure knew how to write a hook. The characters HAD me, I was invested in them and then the rug got pulled out from under my feet.

I will admit to being a pretty impatient reader - as soon as I became aware of the premise of this book I was flipping ahead in pages to find an explanation. I love to spoil it for myself what can I say? However, the fact that I had to do this so many times goes to show that this book has many twists and turns that will have you turning the (many) pages.

Despite this books length, I felt it was necessary to get to where it did. Towards the end I did really notice how many holes were left for further books in the series - which I am not a massive fan of in novels but what can you do.

I thought I'd seen every kind of dystopian novel out there but here's another one to put on your list Hunger Games / Divergent / Maze Runner / The Road / 1984 girlies.

Characters 7
Plot 9
Writing/style 6
Enjoyment 7
Overall rating 3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Suicide, and War

Minor: Cursing, Alcohol, Animal death, and Blood