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missladysky'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
4.5
Graphic: Death, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Alcoholism, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Alcohol
vixenreader'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
4.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Fatphobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, War, and Classism
Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, and Abortion
Be aware that this book deals with estranged relationships between ex-partners, plots to destroy community, attacks targets at the LGBTQ+ community, broken condoms, refusing medical services due to religious beliefs, corporate & political corruption, fear of unwanted pregnancy, selling out, explosions caused by fireworks, and zombies.fuzzball's review
- 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? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Car accident, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Fatphobia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Police brutality, Grief, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Lesbophobia
sommermeyer27'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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol
Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Police brutality, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Self harm and Suicide
lostgwennel's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
The narration over-explains things sometimes, like what transphobia is or why the police are bad, which can be a little annoying because it feels like it doesn’t trust the reader to know these things or be able to infer them from the text.
My favourite parts of the book were butch Beau, token nonbinary Sunshine, and the setting of San Lazaro (reading this in November in SW England, every time I read a description of the sun I felt like vitamin D was radiating off the pages)
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Homophobia, Racism, and Sexual assault
Minor: Suicide attempt
dogoodwithbooks'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
4.5
For a horror novel, The Z Word is a kind of fun book to read. Adopting the various tropes associated with zombie apocalypses media and infusing her own spins on those tropes, King-Miller writes a darkly funny horror novel about a misfit group trying to save Pride from an sudden outburst of zombies. It’s very easy to picture the different elements of this book, from the various Pride festivities to glimpses into the victims of the zombie outbreak, and I liked how King-Miller used her writing to achieve that goal. There are quite a bit of gore/jump scare moments, but those depictions aren’t excessively graphic (only to the point of what’s needed for this type of story). Fans of Andrew Joseph White will appreciate the thematic elements of LGBTQ+ people fighting back against absolutely horrible circumstances as well as the portrayals of complex and messy queer characters in The Z Word. If you’re looking for a horror novel featuring Sapphic MCs, written with a dark sense of humor, and/or has a found family trope, you should keep your eye out for this book.
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Homophobia, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Police brutality, Grief, and Lesbophobia
Minor: Body shaming, Religious bigotry, and Car accident
steph_weigle'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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
smothermewithscifi'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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Racial slurs
anathema_thorn'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
3.25
However, this is a really queer book, and it was nice to have such an unapologetically queer zombie story. I loved the bisexual representation and how fat femmes were very much the center of desire. The commentary on rainbow capitalism was very poignant. All in all, this novel has its good points but the plot itself is formulaic with a predictable ending, hence the mid rating.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Moderate: Gore and Blood
tommelisesofia's review
- 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
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Biphobia, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Vomit, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Outing, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic