Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

6 reviews

sherylm0rgan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I love this book and this series! Very thought provoking. Hoping it’ll become a show someday.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Sexual content, Trafficking, and Pandemic/Epidemic

readinbythesea's review

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

joypouros's review against another edition

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

backyardjake's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Atwood has masterfully fleshed out and woven in two additional perspectives into the world of the waterless flood. Heartbreaking backstories and gut wrenching connections to the first book all end in a conclusion of dismayed happiness. Religous control, sexual domination, surrogate family and belonging, the guilt and madness of the survivor, and the unhealed scars of love. So many juicy parallels to the first book and a refeshing point of view. I may have liked the first book a tad bit more due to Jimmy's more relatable male gaze, but this is a hell of a follow up regardless of narrator. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Bullying, Drug use, Infertility, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

swaggie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Genocide, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

hanamany's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Trafficking, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment