Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham

39 reviews

mynameisrebecca's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Murder, Gore, Transphobia, Blood, Body horror, Xenophobia, Vomit, Biphobia, and Pandemic/Epidemic

reading_rogue13's review

funny hopeful fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Body horror, Gun violence, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Medical content

aiplusyou's review

emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

re: diversity, the characters are textually diverse, but it's one of those situations where functionally they all feel very white. it didn't really bother me, and the main pairing is queer, but it's one of those hard to quantify situations.

i really enjoyed this, though! it was a bit lighter and more fun than dry, which i read last year, because it's happening post-disaster, but the two are pretty similar.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Cannibalism

Moderate: Vomit, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racial slurs, and Police brutality

Minor: Transphobia

angelcarmie2's review

dark funny tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cursing, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Blood, Body horror, Deadnaming, and Gore

kenziehath's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Hate crime, Misogyny, Death, Gore, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

imandubose's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, Body horror, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Alcohol, Transphobia, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Deadnaming

wrensreadingroom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body horror, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Cannibalism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Car accident, Medical content, Violence, Mental illness, Child death, Deportation, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Misogyny, Vomit, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Homophobia

sydresnik's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Deadnaming, Blood, and Body horror

nicole_zx's review

dark mysterious tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Drug use, Body horror, Blood, Cannibalism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief and Alcohol

Minor: Transphobia and Deadnaming

lordslag's review

funny 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? No

3.0

Really cool concept and such cute friendships and wlw romance. Hated the lesbian character being in love with a straight girl trope (you win some you lose some). The plot twist was really predictable and even though the book came with a trigger warning page it didn’t talk about the racism in the book? Which is off-putting to me especially when reading from non-black authors, paired with the first three pages being like, “This is Zoey, this is Zoey’s Black friend, this is Zoey’s white friend, and this is Zoey’s Latina friend”. Like it just gave me an icky feeling having the characters introductions being reduced to their race. I don’t know if maybe I had a bad copy because there was also some grammatical errors and my epilogue chapter says “ehilogue” so idk. All that aside it was still a fun story to read, I just don’t think I’ll be picking up anything else from this author.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cannibalism, Racism, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Transphobia