Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

7 reviews

kajoreads's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

3.5

It took me a while to get emotionally invested, which isn’t ideal when the book is only 200 pages long.

The last third was worth the wait though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Violence, and War

Moderate: Colonisation, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Torture

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, and Pandemic/Epidemic

katilh's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Wish the Sci-Fi part was more,, explained? important?
It seemed so interesting but unfortunately fell short, which made plot points confusing and kind of boring at times. I felt it only got really good as i started to ignore the confusion, but i'd have much prefered some more detail in that sense.

How everything between red and blue got tied together tho was quite nice! I assumed reds presence troughout the story but didn't link it to anything at that point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, War, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

babudarabu's review

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Blood and Murder

Minor: Body horror, War, Animal death, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Suicide

theirgracegrace's review

adventurous emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

In the endless battle between the dystopian Agency and the utopian Garden, agents battle across time. Travelling up and down the threads of time, Red and Blue come across one another by pure chance...or is it? Red belongs to the Agency and Blue is part of the Garden, but through a series of letters, their relationship turns from rivals, to friends, to something more. I adored the settings of their letters and the ending completely blew me away. I will definitely recommend it to my friends!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Murder, Body horror, Confinement, Grief, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Cursing

Minor: Colonisation, Genocide, and Pandemic/Epidemic

effievee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War, Physical abuse, and Death

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

msradiosilence's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, War, Blood, Colonisation, Confinement, Genocide, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Violence

laurenevlyn's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious 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

5.0

I can confidently say that this is the best book I’ve ever read. I knew a little bit going in, but I’m so glad I decided to remain somewhat in the dark about the story. The writing of this book is some of the most beautiful I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing. These are the types of words I dream of writing and of receiving. Red and Blue have my whole heart

and the thought of them fighting side by side with all the time in the world to experience each other brought me so much joy and comfort that I started crying as soon as I finished the last page.

This is a relatively quick read, so please, if anyone is on the fence about reading this, do yourself the biggest favor in the world and do it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Body horror

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Sexual content, and Confinement