Reviews tagging 'Cancer'

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

72 reviews

miada001's review

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Cancer, and Body horror

jjjreads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Violence

rickvsthebooksagenda's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Blood, Death, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Medical content, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Gore, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, Alcohol, and Cancer

orca's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Cancer and Blood

bo0kf4n2's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Very different from the movie!

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gun violence

Minor: Animal death and Cancer

sir_willyam's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.75

Psychological horror juxtaposed next to beautiful natural scenery, Annihilation focuses on the willfulness behind self-destruction, and the resistance of healing.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Body horror, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide attempt, Cancer, Violence, Sexual content, Animal death, Terminal illness, and Murder

bluejayreads's review against another edition

3.75

This book was a pretty solid horror story. It had a very strong SCP vibe to it, with a lot of aspects that reminded me of SCP-610. It was very eerie and had a lot of buildup in a very cool and incredibly creepy distorted natural world. However, I found the ending anticlimactic. There was a lot of potential in the mysterious creature and the body horror that never came to fruition. It had a lot of horror buildup, but missed that intense horror climax and release. It was perfectly fine on the whole, and very good in parts. I have no desire for a sequel - there are questions remaining, sure, but this is the kind of book where they don't seem to require answers. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood and Cancer

Romantic partner death, mind control

eegekay's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

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

Minor: Cancer

emilycruz1016's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cancer, Chronic illness, Animal death, Blood, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Death, and Grief

Minor: Sexual content

aileron's review

adventurous challenging mysterious 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

3.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gun violence, and Violence

Moderate: Blood and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Suicide