Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Rok Potopu by Margaret Atwood

12 reviews

maddie_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

So I thought that this was my second time reading this book, but I realized that I had not finished it the first time in ~2014 because towards the end there was content that I found especially disturbing around sexual assault

a female character gets kidnapped by two men and it's implied that she has undergone severe sexual assaults even though details are not described

and one of my friends had recently been sexually assaulted so I found this part of the book too difficult to read at the time. I wrote this first just to warn that there are strong themes of sexual violence / violence against women in this book that were not present in the first and you may have to skip this one or skip specific chapters if you can't read about stuff like that right now. 

That being said, I thought this book was absolutely amazing. Such a unique way to write a sequel and connect it with the first book while expanding on the world so much. I really enjoyed that the book jumped between characters POVs and jumped between time. Loved seeing how characters from this book were related to characters from the first book. 

I really liked the Canadian references. 

All three narrators were very good and this was the first time I'd experienced an audiobook where they made the songs actual songs which I thought was really cool.

the only thing for the songs was I think it would have been better if the songs after year 25 the waterless flood wouldve had no music, just been the guy singing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Bullying, Gore, Sexual content, Classism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Grief, Infidelity, Murder, Rape, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Death, Sexual assault, and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent, Gun violence, Abandonment, and Physical abuse

Minor: Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, and Torture

allydee's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Confinement, Murder, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Physical abuse, Death, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Animal death, Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic, Drug abuse, Sexism, and Sexual assault

skeptic_hecate's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Margaret Atwood seldom fails to make copativating and rich stories. The environment, the world building, even though it is contained in one part, it is abundant and three dimensional. I haven't read the first book in the series, but one can enjoy this book as a stand alone. I loved the characters, even the annoying Ren, she is the one I leastr liked, but I still found her enjoyable. I will definitely read the rest of the series, even without the cliffhanger. Also, what a cliffhanger. I listened to this book as an audiobook, and the Gardner's songs are masterfully sang. All the voives are magnificent. Honestly I wish more books had this high quality audiobooks. Highly recommended. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Rape

Moderate: Kidnapping, Torture, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Animal death

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative 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? Yes

5.0

MAGGIE U MAKE ME SO UNHINGED how am i to think about anything else now? 

This was so fucking perfect 

Its like if you threw spagettie at the wall and it look like a bug mess of lots of spaghetti at first and then you realised it was all one perfect single strand of spaghetti that maggie a left for you 

'But compassion takes work, and we were young.'

 'Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together. 

ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THAT??? 

HOW AM I MEANT TO GO ABOUT MY DAY 

NOW MAGGIE???

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, Gore, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Rape, Death, Abandonment, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Sexual violence

kendallbehr's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful reflective slow-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? It's complicated

4.5

I loved how this tied in with Oryx and Crake while also having the strength to be a standalone. I would say it's a slow burn middle filler to give you a lot of background on Oryx and Crake (they happen sort of concurrently). Atwood again with female main characters and you find out more about the Maddaddam group

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

wormgirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Suicide, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, and Pedophilia

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, Drug use, Cancer, Child death, Blood, Classism, Death, and Domestic abuse

nabisteph's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Death, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

joypouros's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This is the second book in the trilogy. I read the first a couple years ago, and I read the sparknotes summary real quick before diving into this, but it wasn't quite enough. While it could technically stand alone, there's enough overlap where it is better to remember details of the first book. 

It is essentially the same timeline of the first book, just told from a different perspective. The Gardeners are a religious sect that shuns the modern world and preaches an en of days. They are vegetarian and anti consumerist. Each chapter begins with a sermon from their leader and a hymn. The main characters are followers of this religion, though they weren't always. Through flashbacks, you learn their histories and what brought them to The Gardeners. There is overlap with characters and plotlines from the first book.

The plague has happened and they are hunkered in various buildings, trying to survive alone while wondering if there are others.

Th book ends very near how the first book ends, but from a different perspective and possibly a day later.

It's frustrating how vague this book is, yet that's the style of the book. There's a lot to fill in. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gore, Animal cruelty, Violence, Trafficking, Terminal illness, Suicide, Murder, Rape, Pandemic/Epidemic, Kidnapping, and Animal death

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Infidelity, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Violence

nicola4e's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence