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hawksrye's review
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Child death, Self harm, Grief, Abandonment, Ableism, Blood, Medical content, Drug abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Animal death, Confinement, and Death
Minor: Alcohol and Deadnaming
main character has self-injurous stims (thumping head against things, skin picking)saffyre's review
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, Ableism, Addiction, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death
Moderate: Confinement, Grief, Transphobia, Animal death, and Racism
Minor: Blood and Self harm
booksthatburn's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
5.0
The end of the world is never a great place to be, and this focuses on the concerns of someone who isn't obviously in a position to make big decisions or changes. She contributes in crucial ways, but none of them are from being some big damn hero, but just being a person who sees something needs doing and tries to take care of it as best she can.
The opening is one of the most viscerally stressful things I've read, while making me need to keep reading.
Denise’s autism is inextricable from the story, shaping her reactions and how the other characters react to her. Hers is just one way that being autistic can appear and feel, and the descriptions of what she thinks versus what she can get herself to actually say contribute to the tension in the narrative. The plot is driven by social interactions, both in the attempts to navigate this newly-formed community aboard the docked ship and in interactions with scattered survivors foraging amongst the wreckage of the old world. Some misunderstandings come from allistic and autistic communication differences (especially early on when more of the characters are strangers), but it never felt like that gap was cheaply used.
Moderate: Racism, Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Medical content, Drug abuse, Drug use, Animal death, and Death
Minor: Self harm
puttingwingsonwords's review
- 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
Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Grief
Moderate: Ableism, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Medical content, Blood, and Gore
Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Racism, Transphobia, and Xenophobia