Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

Survivor Song by Paul Tremblay

30 reviews

nicole_cob_reads's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Pregnancy, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Medical trauma

jhansell's review against another edition

dark tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Pregnancy, and Violence

free_the_bookshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Body horror, Pregnancy, Blood, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Death, and Mental illness

ksil91's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Pregnancy, and Animal death

emilymbrown's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical trauma, Animal death, Death of parent, Medical content, Blood, Body horror, Chronic illness, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

akira_outofthegravity's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

3.5

I really liked this book. It’s a bit like every zombie film out there, but there’s hope in this one which I like. I genuinely cared for all the characters, and I cried a lot. 

It’s not the most mind blowing but I liked it enough to cry when sad things happened, which doesn’t happen with badly written books. 

Sassafras and lullabies.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Pregnancy, Animal death, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Vomit, Grief, Gun violence, Violence, and Medical trauma

dandaloriian's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Racism

raven31's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Pregnancy

sylvestra's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Animal death

kieranlit's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

5.0

The back of the book has an NPR review that reads: "It is a terrible thing to read a Paul Tremblay story...terrible because you know, going in, that it's probably going to mess you up, that his stories and his words have this way of getting under your skin."
And boy does it deliver. I read an ARC of this and. It has haunted me for the last five years. It's a zombie apocalypse story. But the haunting thing isn't the zombies, it's what comes after.
I have no idea who's marking this as hopeful.

There is no hope. He makes certain of that. Were it not for that last chapter, it could have been hopeful, but that last chapter? He makes it clear. She moved back home with her parents--the one thing she never wanted to do--she gave up her own dreams and boundaries to raise that child, for years, and she has never been okay since then.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness