Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

72 reviews

znvisser's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

Went into this book knowing I wouldn’t get any answers and therefore I was able to enjoy this wonderful, weird experience. Usually not a fan of scenery descriptions but the writing and/or biology perspective certainly made it more interesting. Throughout I was speculating along with the biologist (and at some point, hallucinating with her too, reading one of my ideas into it and realising later I misread) and formed many theories that may or may not be true. Very intriguing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Grief, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Gaslighting

Minor: Cancer

toastrats's review

challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Body horror and Death

Minor: Cancer

zombiezami's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Body horror, Violence, Death, Murder, and Gun violence

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, Cursing, Gore, Mental illness, and Blood

Minor: Sexual content, Cancer, and Terminal illness

bibliosexual's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Animal death, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cancer and Alcoholism

keegan53's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

This book is the kind of book that makes you stop, ask yourself “what the heck did I just read”, and reread the sentence. I mean this in the best possible way. Annihilation is such a mind-bending story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Violence, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Sexual content, Self harm, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, and Suicide

A note on the body horror:

things that should not be made out of flesh are made out of flesh

elizabeth_lepore's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Blood, Gun violence, Murder, and Suicide

Minor: Cancer

itisnatal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Bullying

parksonian's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Violence

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Cancer and Terminal illness

charlotteih's review

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

BRILLIANT. brilliant brilliant. aside from just the kickass narative itself, the poeticism of the mc’s reflections are beautiful and terrible, vandermeer spits straight fire honestly. he reflects the characters’ shifts in attitude/perspective (+ relative sanity) immersively. as the characters became more absorbed in their desires, so do you into the story itself. i couldn’t have been more satisfied with this book, and if you want to dabble in sci-fi or cosmic horror, this book is perfect, and honestly just a great read. i can’t recommend it enough and i will be reading the rest of the trilogy 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Minor: Cancer

gardens_and_dragons's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

2.5

I thought this was a very strange book., but not in an interesting way, just in how it was presented to the reader. I know that most of the book is supposed to be confusing, because the main character of herself is confused because it’s going to area x, and discovering “the brightness” - but for the most part her confusion never really clears and I was left unsatisfied with what she experienced. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Death

Minor: Cancer