Reviews tagging 'Death'

Inmitten der Nacht by Rumaan Alam

43 reviews

irinalast's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

Dislike what is likely how most people would think, feel, and act when the worst happens. No one is a hero, not much hope in the end. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Toxic relationship, War, Grief, Alcohol, Medical content, Confinement, Terminal illness, Death, and Sexual content

ddclarke's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.25

A literary novel written to sound like a literary novel. Really love the concept and it was pulled off, but without anything that really stood out to me.

Likely hurt by having watched the movie first, which was very faithful and left me little to discover in the pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Vomit, Violence, Classism, Racism, War, Terminal illness, Death, Alcohol, and Suicide

franklola's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Body horror, Confinement, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Alcohol, Chronic illness, and Racism

Minor: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

lauracollins096's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Vomit

Moderate: Blood, Death, Cancer, Racism, Classism, War, Genocide, and Body horror

Minor: Islamophobia, Addiction, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, Religious bigotry, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Body shaming

solnit_and_sebastian's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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? Yes

4.0

For those who like their apocalyptic scenarios light on explanation in favor of dissecting characters' reactions to events, "Leave the World Behind" offers a variety of reactions to a novel and distressing scenario. The story is by turns amusing, devastating, and tedious, as living through this story's plot would likely be.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Racism, and Cursing

lizzym126's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual content, Suicide, War, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Alcohol, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Racism

Minor: Murder

klr0's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, Alcohol, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, and Death

kaylanoellesims's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

3.75 ⭐️ - intriguing and definitely gets you thinking - personally would have like more of a tied up ending but I guess that’s is also against the point of the book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

Moderate: Murder, Homophobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Alcohol, War, Racism, Medical trauma, and Medical content

kelleywithanextrae's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

Minor: Vomit, Suicide, War, Cancer, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

campirebat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

Beautifully written exploration of what happens when humans can no longer logic their way to safety, and the parental anxiety one feels having kids in times like these. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Racism, Sexual content, Dysphoria, Vomit, and Child death