Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

The Passage by Justin Cronin

5 reviews

teabex's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

A fascinating story with interesting characters, unpredictable twists, and epic journeys. It covers a vast set of plot lines and times, in would could have been three separate books itself. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, and Torture

Minor: Confinement, Kidnapping, Animal death, Cancer, Medical content, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, and Suicide

eliencostermans's review

The author abandons plot lines and the story seems to go nowhere. There are way too many characters that stay quite flat. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Pandemic/Epidemic

katiecentabar's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

3.75

I tore through this trying to finish in 2023 but came up short, so it’s my first of the new year. This book is cinematic and fascinating. Though overlong and with coincidences that made me go “really?” I enjoyed it a lot. I’ll probably finish the series 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Gore, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Suicide, Pregnancy, Animal death, War, and Miscarriage

tealightfultomes's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide, and Pregnancy

minanonim's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

While the start is a bit slow, the story picks up pace halfway in. It was definitely a good choice on my part to go with the audiobook, and turn up the speed (I did this from the beginning). However, I must say, this book has ALL OF THE TRIGGER WARNINGS, like any trigger warning you can think of is probably in there somewhere. Please be careful if you, unlike me, have a heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gore, Torture, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Grief, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Torture, Sexual assault, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Vomit, Terminal illness, and Cancer