Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

11 reviews

cmbrown4's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Violence, and Animal death

brookebatesratesbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Cursing, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Animal death

cyndakeel's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Grief, Murder, Death, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death and Blood

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

arejaytay's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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 death, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Grief, Gun violence, and Terminal illness

jessrad505's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Violence, Animal death, Death, and Gun violence

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

shellybelly's review

emotional hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Murder, Death, Abandonment, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Grief