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Lord of Population by Elizabeth Stephens

7 reviews

clearlyunhinged's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Cannibalism, Car accident, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Animal death and Death of parent

kbairbooks's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

Speechless. Read this book. READ THE TRIGGER WARNINGS. Be careful. And pay attention to the rules of population and you MIGHT survive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Genocide, Medical content, Mental illness, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Violence, Rape, Colonisation, Confinement, Abandonment, Ableism, Animal death, Cursing, Death of parent, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Addiction, Body horror, Body shaming, Grief, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, War, Infidelity, Vomit, and Car accident

apolen's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gun violence, Murder, Blood, Slavery, Pedophilia, Gore, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Death, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Child death, and War

Moderate: Medical content, Cultural appropriation, Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Addiction, Cursing, Child abuse, Trafficking, Confinement, War, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Death of parent, Animal death, and Cannibalism

ashatroyal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.25

This is a post-apocalypse dystopian story with some sci-fi, paranormal and vampirism thrown in there. Abel is a strong FMC who is scrappy and witty. She’s going to fight her way out or die trying. Like my girl is a warrior! After a series of unfortunate events, she meets Kane. She lives by certain rules that keep getting amended the longer she’s in his presence. Kane has honestly been protective from the start. Mikey is not a good person. He definitely sexually assaulted her then tried to blame her in addition to all his faults. This book is gritty. Some things are hard to read and make no mistake there’s no shortage of having to survive when gangs, Others and scavengers are out in the population. I think one of the main lessons learned is that it’s okay to have hope. This book would’ve been a 4 for me if not for the grammar mistakes. Around 90% the book felt a little dragged out. 

How they trying to be stealthy and they’re slamming doors and calling out names? They do a lot of yelling for people not trying to be found. I also don’t understand why Jack looked like Kane. 

More grammatical errors as the story progressed. 

TW: Minor/adult relations, sexual assault, violence, murder, loss of parents, pedophilia, cannibalism. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Addiction, Abandonment, Pedophilia, Cannibalism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Rape, Physical abuse, Confinement, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, and Death of parent

weezy's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

This book requires some serious editing. There were sentences that just... Didn't make sense? It could of easily been 2 or 3 books and fleshed out more fully. Probably wouldn't read again and wouldn't continue on

I adored Kane. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Colonisation, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Death, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Pedophilia, and Rape

bagel_cm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Violence, Torture, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder, Gore, Death of parent, Cannibalism, Addiction, Slavery, and Rape

sashawins's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.0

📚Book Review📚
Rate: ⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

📚My Review 

This was definitely a instagram made me do it read. Yall, I am disappointed. 

❤️What I Enjoyed
This book started off good. I was invested in Abels story, her rule book of survival in Population, and her warrior kick ass persona. 
●When Abel kick Beast ass on the road🤣
●I like the little girl Ashely and her strength after dealing with trauma.

Then, shit went down hill...

😑Stuff that made no sense
●Chapters long and no action got extended periods 
● Kane & Abels relationship It wasn't believable at all. Even if it first the trope--- instant love. They went from I am stab you to, you are my life👀
●Kane brother Mikeal added no value to the story accept that he likes being a nasty freak. They could just left him in that cave because he was a WHOLE ass hazard.

🤢Shit that made me sick
The whole eat the coochie while it's bloody👀👀👀. The way this author went into details was beyond me. 
Yooo I died and came back to life reading that scene. 
She made it worst by doing another scene of let chew on the period coochie and suck on bloody fingers🤮
✌🏾✌🏾✌🏾I legit stopped reading at 90% of the book.  Nothing made sense. Stuff dragged. Kane was growling mess.

Overall this was not favorite read of March. Will I continue with the Lord of Population series:No.
Will I read her new series: maybe

Until then yall enjoy your weekend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Rape, Child abuse, Gore, Blood, Car accident, Child death, and Drug abuse