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lavenderprince01's review against another edition
- 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: Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gun violence, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Vomit, and Death of parent
Minor: Homophobia
tanouska's review against another edition
5.0
It's a YA book, but doesn't feel all that YA, probably due to the serious setting.
Graphic: Violence and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Gun violence and Murder
phosphenes's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Medical content, and Violence
Moderate: Gore, Cursing, Hate crime, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood
Minor: Racism, Sexism, Ableism, Vomit, and Suicidal thoughts
jackbenham13's review against another edition
- 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
3.5
Moderate: Homophobia, Death, and Gun violence
phoofy's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Gun violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Death
Moderate: Blood
Minor: Vomit
teslis's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
It was a bit slow in the beginning and I didn’t get that far in it before putting it down. So I wasn’t super interested in the beginning.
But, as I was reading I got so hooked, I read like 2/3 of the book in like 36 hours (including sleeping and working). I was stuck, but there were some parts that I didn’t enjoy that much or feel weird about.
Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Death, Blood, Gun violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Child death
Moderate: Vomit
Minor: Slavery, Homophobia, and Suicidal thoughts
rubi_blue6's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Romance novels? Not usually for me. But what I think this book succeeded in was making it not about some elusive once in a lifetime love; the core romance felt authentic. And then there's the familal love, the friendships, love for media and the world that's left behind
The author didn't shy away from the ugliness that's inevitably left in the post-apocalyptic world.
It reads like a video game, with the small side-quests, goals and moments of brief encounters or observations
I picked this up in a charity shop because I love the genre; I wasn't expecting anything groundbreaking but I got an sad, lovely narrative that was tense and a little dark
Moderate: Vomit, Murder, Violence, and Gun violence
Minor: Homophobia and Child death
timmi_prvt's review
- 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? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Sexism and Misogyny
broke's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
Graphic: Medical trauma, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Biphobia, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Medical content, Grief, Gun violence, and Murder
Minor: Racism
fractaltexan's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.75
The characterization of Andrew and Jamison is amazing, and Brown works well to blend together both a broken world, hope for a future yet unseen, and the dangers that can be rather inherent in a world that was destroyed.
This book made me laugh, made me cry, made me ponder just what kind of a world we live in, and whether or not human nature would go the way no one would like it to go.
Moderate: Blood, Gun violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic