Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Camp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling

5 reviews

zombiezami's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

Some of the plot lost me, but I liked the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Blood, Cursing, Classism, Infidelity, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Colonisation, Murder, Sexual content, Death, Gaslighting, and Grief

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Incest

amsswim's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.25

This book was not bad, I just don't think it was anything outstanding. Anything above a 3 is still worth a read if you're interested, in my opinion. If the author's intent was for me to be mostly bored and hate every man in this book it was achieved. Then the story I did like following, the WHite Alice plot, was generally ignored until 2/3 of the way through. I think overall Rose's story was the best written though. I could've just read a book about her experiences, which she was definitely the main character. Ending was alright but a pain to get to. The themes of climate change and folies of men are good, and I love a dystopian always (this was more of a pre-dystopian in my opinion).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Murder, Sexual assault, Cursing, Death, Blood, Violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Grief

Moderate: Pregnancy and Death of parent

micaelamariem's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I’m usually into dystopians but this one didn’t hit as well to me as they usually do. This is a great book for some people. There were interesting themes of environmentalism, feminism, colonialism, and survival. With multiple perspectives that weave into each other’s stories, it was interesting to see how it was all connected. But, it just wasn’t what I was expecting, and it was hard to focus on what the most important takeaway was. There was a lot of violence, and too many of it against animals for my liking. That being said, this book reminded me a bit of The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, just in the survival in the Arctic kind of sense. And the feminist themes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Colonisation, Cursing, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Blood, Violence, Death, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

mtnest's review

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Cursing, Murder, Sexual content, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual assault, Vomit, Classism, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Confinement, and Alcohol

Dystopian

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.0

Thanks to Atria Books for the free advance copy of this book.

 - CAMP ZERO is a near future dystopia, terrifying in that it's not all that different from the path we are currently on.
- I flew through this novel, fully immersed in its world and invested in the characters, all of whom have come north for different reasons, all of whom have done good things and bad things and are simply trying to survive.
- CAMP ZERO mainly explores how gender effects each character's path in this melting world, but it also gets into class, race, education and more. I already want to read more by Sterling. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Animal death, Death, Colonisation, Grief, Misogyny, Sexual content, Cursing, Violence, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual assault and Racism