Reviews tagging 'Death'

Hyperion, by Dan Simmons

7 reviews

sgrunwald96's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.75

Enjoyable and a cool classic scifi but a little slow and I was frustrated with the lack of conclusion at the end. World/universe building and creativity was definitely great though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Body horror, Death, War, Blood, Gore, and Violence

placeswebreathe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Child death, Torture, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: War and Xenophobia

singalana's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Colonisation, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Murder, Terminal illness, Torture, and War

Minor: Alcohol and Animal death

dogearedbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Blood, Body horror, Injury/injury detail, Murder, and Gore

Minor: Death, Murder, Blood, Child death, Genocide, Grief, War, Alcoholism, and Animal death

mar's review against another edition

hm! bad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Sexual content, Gore, Body horror, and Racism

Moderate: War, Blood, Colonisation, Death, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia

babudarabu's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, Death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Animal death, Colonisation, Grief, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Genocide, and War

dgarrison's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective medium-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? No

5.0

Wow…I was impressed with this book. Fantastic world-building and a very interesting story that unfolds through what I would describe as 6 novelettes told within a overarching story. 

Just be prepared to jump right into the sequel, Fall of Hyperion. This book focuses a lot on the world building and ends kind of abruptly without much of a resolution in the overarching story. I suspect much of that resolution comes in the second book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Colonisation, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Sexual content, and War

Minor: Torture and Alcoholism