Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Een seconde later by William R. Forstchen

8 reviews

mementomoriiv's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death

saighnean's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Animal death, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Dementia, Child death, Cannibalism, Gun violence, Terminal illness, and Suicide

Moderate: Rape and Racial slurs

smashingreads's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

1.0

Initial thoughts: This book is awful to the point that I’m confused how and why other people like it. It objectifies women, acts as if being American is the be-all and end-all, treats conversations as historical monologues, and has a questionable timeline. I stuck through it because Wikipedia mentioned

there would be a fight against cannibals

, but it was an extremely small portion of the book.

I was also disappointed that the book was all about the MC. I cant even pretend to care about the MC because of his views towards women, constant references to being American, and monologuing.

My other heartache was that I was interested in the things the book didn’t spend time on (the town as a whole, the impact of the disaster, the conflicts that are mostly glazed over, the things the town did to improve the situation, the deaths and causes of death in town, etc.) and I didn’t care for the things the book focused on (the MC and monologuing about history).

Overall, this book felt as shallow as its MC.

(It may be worth mentioning - I currently have to interact with a sexist monologuer and I have lost all tolerance for it)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Cannibalism, Child death, Gun violence, War, and Vomit

charmiecm's review against another edition

slow-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? No

1.5

Reads like the political propaganda it is. The cast of characters is predictable.

The point when he refused to talk to his daughter about safe sex and then wanted to be mad when she was pregnant…maddening. And that he never had a conversation with her about the dangers of getting pregnant or staying pregnant. Just absurd.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Sexism, Medical trauma, War, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Cancer, Alcoholism, Classism, Grief, and Child death

erafact's review against another edition

emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Death

Moderate: Cannibalism

delphinaris's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

0.25

If I could rate this book zero stars I would. I hate this book so much it is one of the worst things I've ever read. This book is a republican senator's wet dream. That non-withstanding, the amount of wildly offensive and racist writing in here was atrocious. 

I don't even know where to start. The main character is an awful self-insert of the author. He's also a major hypocrite and views women including his own daughters as either hot or not. He has very few reservations about cold blooded murder and freaked out more about eating dogs than shooting people in the head. I hated the guy. I wanted this man to die. I cheered every time he got hurt. He's the absolute worst. 

Nevermind that the whole book is basically dick-riding the military. Like it's bad. And the plot is just trash, like actual garbage. 

Also, they wouldn't stop mentioning 9/11 and Desert Storm. I get it, he's a military guy, but this is ridiculous. It's fucking silly that I am tallying it on a sticky note. Fifteen times. That's too many times dude. 

Ignoring the terrible pacing and quite possibly worse than Chat GPT prose, the book could've been good. The idea of an EMP taking out America's electro-mechanical resources and the slow descent into apocalyptic chaos that follows is a great idea. However, that idea almost immediately grows sour for me when the author who cannot write to begin with, attempts to turn it into some sort of climate change denial alpha male military propaganda. 

In conclusion, fuck Newt Gingrich, fuck William R. Forstchen, and fuck this book. BOOOOOOOOO.

0/5 stars, I want my time back

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Child death, and Sexism

this book is terrible

jharman44's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Dementia, Fatphobia, Medical trauma, Violence, Cannibalism, Police brutality, Suicide, Gun violence, Murder, Cursing, Chronic illness, Ableism, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Animal death, Grief, Blood, Child death, Misogyny, and War

shellybelly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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? No

4.0

A little too pro-military and "rah rah America" for my liking. The writing was just ok, but the story was engaging. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Child death, Death, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Trafficking, Blood, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Dementia, Gun violence, Murder, and War