Reviews tagging 'Vomit'

The Girl With All the Gifts by M.R. Carey

18 reviews

reddeddy's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cannibalism, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Stalking, Suicide, Terminal illness, Car accident, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Excrement, Eating disorder, and Grief

Minor: Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Sexism, and Misogyny

marthadude's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Murder, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Cursing, Murder, Car accident, Vomit, and Alcohol

tiemzahra's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Melanie’s routine was fixed every day. Every day, she would wait to be picked from her cell to the classroom, at gunpoint and strapped in a chair. She thought they didn’t like her. 

 

This is a story of zombie apocalypse and I thought I could never be interested with this genre. I bought this book with the prospective of extraordinary kid, never thought she would be a zombie/hungry. But I stand corrected.

This book has given the perspective I always look for in a book - moral ambiguity. 

 

Introducing Sergeant Parks, the military guy who was rigid, had no exceptions in his rules; hungries are hungries, no matter if they look human or a literal child. He would treat them with contempt, because for him, they were threats. Dr. Caldwell, a purely logical-thinking scientist, treating the kid hungries as test subjects. They were important for the sake of humanity progression. Feeling sorry for them only hinder their progress with the dying civilisation. And Miss Justineau, despite the nature of the kids, treated them with compassion. She believed they were just innocent sensitive kids and didn’t deserve any of the mistreatments in the centre. 

 

Miss Justineau might be the most morally right, but with the current situation they were in, you would understand both Parks and Caldwell’s POV, and will be stuck in moral dilemmas.

I personally agree with the three of them at different situations, and even Miss Justineau at times was being dramatic that she almost jeopardised the whole crew. Parks’ instinct ensured their survival, while Caldwell’s study led to the new world they had to prepare for. While Justineau, with her compassionate personality, would be educating the future leaders of the new world.

I just concluded that these three distinctions were necessary to keep them going. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit and War

sorcha's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Murder

Minor: Vomit

madelnguttorms1's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Terminal illness, Murder, Medical trauma, Medical content, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Death, Confinement, Child death, Child abuse, Cannibalism, Body horror, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Sexual content

aconfundityofcrows's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.5

 I don't know if I'm in the right mindset to figure out how I would rate this right now because of school brain stress. That said this is really good and I highly recommend if it sounds interesting to you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Violence, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Cursing, Grief, Murder, Suicide, and Vomit

Minor: Domestic abuse, Genocide, and Sexual content

pybrarian's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Gore

Minor: Vomit

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I saw the movie first because I didn't know it was a book at the time. The book was, obviously, a lot more fleshed out, and I always love novels that switch perspectives from one character to another. It was very haunting and good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Kidnapping, and Vomit