Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

Winter by Marissa Meyer

11 reviews

melissaslibraryy's review

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

As sad as I am to let this series go for a second time, I’m so glad everyone got their HEA 🥹🫶 The Lunar Chronicles is one of the first main series I read back in middle school when I started getting into more fantasy and world-building chapter books so the nostalgia I feel rereading it as a 20-year old is palpable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Gore, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Police brutality, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Body horror, Confinement, Torture, Murder, and War

nexusthegreat's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-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

5.0

AAAAH I LOVED THE LUNAR CHRONICLES. The ending answered all my questions and had me feeling satisfied with the character’s development.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Terminal illness, Gaslighting, and Violence

Minor: Slavery

crondeau_yvr's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious slow-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? No

4.5

Fantastic book and ending to the series. I will miss these characters very much. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Xenophobia, and Violence

tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Animal death, Blood, Murder, War, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Body horror, Torture, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Rape

eowyn_zoe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Blood, and Mental illness

Minor: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Panic attacks/disorders

theinkedpath's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.75

ES:
Mira, de verdad, adoro a estos personajes y este mundo. Estoy muy dentro de esta historia. Todos a leedla. Adoro a Marissa Meyer.

EN:
I have loved these saga since the very beginning and this was a very, very well done conclusion. If you have not read this, please, do it. It is tremendous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Gaslighting, Torture, Ableism, Blood, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Panic attacks/disorders

mirrorstorm_'s review

adventurous dark emotional

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, War, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Emotional abuse

colorwriter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War, and Death

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic and Fire/Fire injury

msradiosilence's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

3.5

TLDR; 3.5 rating, killed by the power of ugly (apparently), and just a lukewarm end to something that started off really well.
Content warnings at the bottom. :)

Listen, Levana was wrong. She was bad, she killed LOTS of people, and she deserved retribution, but the way they defeated her was just horrible. So she

has burns, because Cinder’s mom pushed her into a fireplace, but we’re supposed to believe that

we’re allowed to throw Levana’s looks in her face, and ultimately kill her, but Cinder should be celebrated for overcoming the same injuries?

What the fuck? Very double standards, I hate it a lot. I’m not saying they should have given Levana grace, but the way she went out defeats the whole characterization of everyone.

This book is also like 200 pages too long. The rest of them just kept running and hiding and separating and it kept happening. Twice is redundant, three times is annoying, and four times is fucking ridiculous. Talk about tedium. 

And somehow, even with the book being too long, Winter and Jacin’s relationship was too rushed. How can a book be too long and have the main romance be so quick? Yadda yadda, that’s how. Those 200 pages of the same shit could’ve been dedicated to building Winter and Jacin’s relationship. 

The one thing that we had a decent time of was the setting, at least. Meyer did a grand job describing the moon and its colonies, which…if you could do it well in this book why didn’t you in literally all the other books? Ugh. 

Rating: 3.5
Would I recommend? Not really, unless you enjoy hypocrisy, 16yo moon queens, and long drawn out action sequences.

Content warnings: Genocide, Medical content, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Classism, Car accident, Colonisation, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, War, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Grief, Murder, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Gun violence, Bullying, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, and Pandemic/Epidemic

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Ableism, Body horror, Genocide, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Torture, Medical content, War, Car accident, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Mental illness, Child death, Bullying, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Murder, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Suicide

strawberrytheauthor's review

adventurous dark funny 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? No

5.0

I forgot that I hadn’t finished this book on the second to last chapter. That’s what happens when you listen to audiobooks. 

I really enjoyed it and while it ended predictably it was a good ending. I have now started Fairest: Levana’s Story right away. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Classism, Death of parent, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and War