Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

8 reviews

pinkthinkydink's review

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

This genius novel is a perfect sequel to 'Oryx and Crake'. This Dystopian/Speculative Fiction novel reads like poetry and paints an intricate picture of the failings of humanity. This novel does a bang-up job of answering the questions we are left with after the first novel and once again warns us of the dangers of a hyper-capitalist society. 
this book, however, is not for the faint-hearted. Sensitive readers beware

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Hate crime, Kidnapping, Animal cruelty, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Body horror, Physical abuse, War, Confinement, Gun violence, Rape, Addiction, and Alcohol

allydee's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cancer, Confinement, Murder, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Physical abuse, Death, Gun violence, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Animal death, Drug use, Pandemic/Epidemic, Drug abuse, Sexism, and Sexual assault

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• 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

MAGGIE U MAKE ME SO UNHINGED how am i to think about anything else now? 

This was so fucking perfect 

Its like if you threw spagettie at the wall and it look like a bug mess of lots of spaghetti at first and then you realised it was all one perfect single strand of spaghetti that maggie a left for you 

'But compassion takes work, and we were young.'

 'Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together. 

ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THAT??? 

HOW AM I MEANT TO GO ABOUT MY DAY 

NOW MAGGIE???

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Domestic abuse, Gore, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Rape, Death, Abandonment, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Sexual violence

jadziaaudrey's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Rape and Death

readinbythesea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

This series blows my mind in the best of ways. I loved Oryx and Crake more than this one but this made me so scared to be a woman in an apocalyptic situation. Can't wait to read the last one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Rape, Trafficking, Torture, Physical abuse, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Sexual violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

wormgirl's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Suicide, Terminal illness, Physical abuse, and Pedophilia

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, Drug use, Cancer, Child death, Blood, Classism, Death, and Domestic abuse

nabisteph's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Death, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

joypouros's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This is the second book in the trilogy. I read the first a couple years ago, and I read the sparknotes summary real quick before diving into this, but it wasn't quite enough. While it could technically stand alone, there's enough overlap where it is better to remember details of the first book. 

It is essentially the same timeline of the first book, just told from a different perspective. The Gardeners are a religious sect that shuns the modern world and preaches an en of days. They are vegetarian and anti consumerist. Each chapter begins with a sermon from their leader and a hymn. The main characters are followers of this religion, though they weren't always. Through flashbacks, you learn their histories and what brought them to The Gardeners. There is overlap with characters and plotlines from the first book.

The plague has happened and they are hunkered in various buildings, trying to survive alone while wondering if there are others.

Th book ends very near how the first book ends, but from a different perspective and possibly a day later.

It's frustrating how vague this book is, yet that's the style of the book. There's a lot to fill in. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gore, Animal cruelty, Violence, Trafficking, Terminal illness, Suicide, Murder, Rape, Pandemic/Epidemic, Kidnapping, and Animal death