Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay

10 reviews

dethklok1985's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Pregnancy, and Medical content

Moderate: Terminal illness

ekmartin's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Murder, Terminal illness, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Car accident

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark sad tense 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? Yes

3.0

this was basically a parody of the covid-19 pandemic. very good commentary on how people act when they are exposed to a situation like this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gun violence, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

emilymbrown's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical trauma, Animal death, Death of parent, Medical content, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

kieranlit's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

5.0

The back of the book has an NPR review that reads: "It is a terrible thing to read a Paul Tremblay story...terrible because you know, going in, that it's probably going to mess you up, that his stories and his words have this way of getting under your skin."
And boy does it deliver. I read an ARC of this and. It has haunted me for the last five years. It's a zombie apocalypse story. But the haunting thing isn't the zombies, it's what comes after.
I have no idea who's marking this as hopeful.

There is no hope. He makes certain of that. Were it not for that last chapter, it could have been hopeful, but that last chapter? He makes it clear. She moved back home with her parents--the one thing she never wanted to do--she gave up her own dreams and boundaries to raise that child, for years, and she has never been okay since then.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

wonderfulxwonderful's review against another edition

dark hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Terminal illness, Murder, and Death

finleyfrogreads's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Animal death, Terminal illness, Blood, Death of parent, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Car accident, Medical content, Cursing, Gun violence, Medical trauma, and Confinement

littlehibou7's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

harleycp's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Terminal illness, and Violence

jackbifrost's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Blood