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purplatypus'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? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Violence
Moderate: Medical content, Xenophobia, Confinement, Kidnapping, Blood, Suicide, Death, Genocide, and Car accident
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Excrement, Addiction, and Slavery
dejahentendu's review against another edition
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
The narrator was mostly quite good, but overdid it a few times.
Moderate: Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Blood, and Genocide
Minor: Car accident and Vomit
zw_books's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Abandonment, and Blood
Moderate: Confinement, Car accident, Grief, and Colonisation
softanimal's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Medical content, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Genocide
caseythereader's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Murder, Violence, Kidnapping, Medical content, Cursing, Death, Vomit, Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Gore, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Colonisation
mandkips's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Gore and Blood
Moderate: Genocide, Car accident, and Death
Minor: Suicide, Torture, and Vomit
bookishchef'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? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Xenophobia and Car accident
Moderate: Violence, War, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Genocide
Minor: Vomit, Torture, Murder, and Blood
loochysue's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Car accident, Death, and Blood
Minor: Vomit, Emotional abuse, and Excrement
brnineworms's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Also,
I’d recommend Axiom’s End to fans of Stephenie Meyer’s The Host. It has a similar vibe.
Graphic: Blood, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Suicide, Confinement, Self harm, Stalking, and Violence
Moderate: Racism, Death, Antisemitism, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content
Minor: Torture, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Ableism, Car accident, Colonisation, Grief, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Slavery, Vomit, Murder, War, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Excrement, and Fire/Fire injury
mind control, not having control over one's own bodymomo916's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
That being said, I definitely enjoyed the experience of watching the relationship between Cora and Ampersand develop as the story went on. It was a sort of self-insert kind of enjoyment, since the narrator doesn’t really seem to have any particular characteristics. Perhaps this could be attributed to the high-stress nature of most of the events of the plot, but I wouldn’t say this particularly detracts from the experience of reading the book. In a way, it allows you to look past the other flaws of the book and just kind of live in it.
A complaint I have that is particular to the audiobook is that the reader has this habit of exaggerating the inflections she adds to her voice when Cora is surprised/shocked by something (which, given the subject matter of the book, happens often). I got used to it after a while but it was annoying at first.
Graphic: Blood, Death, Gore, and Violence
Moderate: Genocide, Suicide, and Excrement
Minor: Car accident