Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

55 reviews

szuum's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Pedophilia, Religious bigotry, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Suicide, and Medical trauma

Minor: Child death and Rape

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Medical content, Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Blood, Colonisation, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Drug use, Infidelity, Pedophilia, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Rape and War

Adult/minor relationship warning is partially for a couple who met when one was a minor. Ableism warning is for the trope of a disabled character dying as part of an abled character's story. Colonisation warning is just in case, for discussion of Israel in a normalized light.

orchidd's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Terminal illness

Moderate: Suicide, Child death, Murder, Grief, Violence, and Gun violence

Minor: Rape, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse

swizzle_malarkey's review against another edition

hopeful reflective sad

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Infidelity, and Grief

larbster90's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Blood, Child death, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Rape, Suicide, and Terminal illness

anarchist_al's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

An absolutely gorgeous, gorgeous book. Haunting to read after 2020. I loved the twisting timelines and perspectives and finally seeing all the connections form and play out and pass. I want to know everything about this world and every single character. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Suicide, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death of parent, and Infidelity

Minor: Rape and Pregnancy

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Infidelity, Murder, and Blood

Minor: Death of parent, Addiction, Stalking, Rape, and Pedophilia

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Pedophilia, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, and Medical content

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Child death, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Stalking

kelseak96's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

5.0

Amazing. Spectacular. Phenomenal. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Murder, and Physical abuse

tbrnichols's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

I found it really tough to not get more invested/interested in Kirsten’s story than the rest of the POV characters, which made much of Clark’s section feel a bit dragging (sometimes it felt long enough to explore how they avoided malnutrition or how their governance worked or what was important in trading, but those were deemed unimportant). But I think the simplicity of the resolution

around the prophet’s storyline

made it clear that it was a me problem, primarily. It did feel a bit odd that everyone’s storylines converged

except Jeevan’s

. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Suicide, and Gun violence

Minor: Adult/minor relationship