Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

6 reviews

scipio_africanus's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective 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? Yes

5.0

Peter Heller clearly knows and loves nature and poetry. This book is pretty much a nature novel about fishing, hunting, and survival with brutal post-apocalyptic violence interspersed throughout. This book was so good that it could easily go into my top 10 favorite novels. 

Was surprised by all the bad reviews for this book. I just dont get it. People saying it's slow or boring. I wasn't bored once. There was plenty of violence,  even a good bit of quality humor, and I enjoyed the more peaceful sections of the story as well. I listened to the audiobook, which may have been a different experience to reading it. 

Can't recommend it enough.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Blood, Gore, Sexual content, Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Grief

mtnest's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Gun violence, Cursing, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

Minor: Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

rmoon's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

Really strong ending...some of the beginning wasn't for me as much. Very solid post-apocalyptic novel. If you're into flying, dogs, fishing, or military, this is a good one for you. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content and Child death

atamano's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Animal death, Gun violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Death, Gore, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Cannibalism, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Xenophobia, Child death, Chronic illness, and Cursing

Minor: Pregnancy

bookmaven17's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Sexual content, Violence, and Animal death

tansy's review against another edition

Some of this is simply that right now, in 2021, I am not in the mood to read about someone struggling with isolation in the aftermath of a pandemic, but also some of it is bafflement as to why all the survivors in this book are so murderous. Were serial killers the only ones immune to the plague? There's plenty of space to grow crops and there's clearly game - the protagonist hunts and fishes very successfully! - so why is everyone gaunt and determined to gun each other down over Dr Pepper? Shooting deer must be easier than trying to kill other heavily armed humans! Just so bleak and nihilistic in a way that didn't feel grounded in reality at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, and Child death

Minor: Sexual violence