Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Das Licht der letzten Tage by Emily St. John Mandel

167 reviews

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Gun violence, Infidelity, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Pedophilia, Rape, Stalking, and Death of parent

kirame's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? No

5.0

The book is pretty complex. I highly recommend to take notes while reading. Mark characters, their storylines, important events, themes, reoccuring items (for ex. the paperweight). It'll be easier to look back on them (characters often refer to them) and to see how they are conected.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Misogyny, Suicide, Violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Rape, Death of parent, and Alcohol

readbycarina's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Suicide, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Pregnancy

Minor: Terminal illness, Blood, and Abandonment

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity, Pedophilia, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Suicide, and Stalking

mynameisrebecca's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

This book starts off strong and stays strong all throughout. It's a twisted adventure through life before and after a major pandemic that leaves the world in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic state. The narrative follows several protagonists throughout their life, and it's up to the reader to start figuring out how - if at all - their worlds all collide. Despite the dark plot, it's filled with hope, inspiration, and wonder as we see this new world through the character's eyes.  I was hooked until the last page, trying to figure out how everything came together. The only reason it's not a 5 star read for me is that I felt some characters were underdeveloped due to the constantly switching narrative.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

Minor: Blood

The core plot follows the impact of a global pandemic. If you're sensitive to that, I'd avoid.

whatathymeitwas's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Drug use, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Car accident, and Pregnancy

tbrnichols's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

I found it really tough to not get more invested/interested in Kirsten’s story than the rest of the POV characters, which made much of Clark’s section feel a bit dragging (sometimes it felt long enough to explore how they avoided malnutrition or how their governance worked or what was important in trading, but those were deemed unimportant). But I think the simplicity of the resolution

around the prophet’s storyline

made it clear that it was a me problem, primarily. It did feel a bit odd that everyone’s storylines converged

except Jeevan’s

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Infidelity, and Suicide

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

le3713's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

It took me awhile to feel ready to read the pandemic novel everyone was talking about, but I'm so glad I did. I finished it and just wanted to sit with the feeling for awhile, even to start back at the beginning. I don't always love too many POVs in novels, but in this case, each perspective added to the world the author was building.

Fair warning for the few who haven't read it yet: this book isn't just post-pandemic, but contains a lot of description of how the pandemic unfolded that you (like me) might find harder to read in its familiarity.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide

emilyplun's review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Moderate: Suicide and Medical content

mantisshrimp's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

Minor: Rape