Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

Involución by Max Brooks

10 reviews

kaelablue's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

You know what you’re getting with this book. Here are the intriguing parts, spoiler free: 
- this, like, says things about society. they really spent a lot of this book talking about the holocaust actually and i just don’t think it needed to do that. with that, i know the novel is called devolution. but i’d didn’t like how much they talked about it
-the alpha sasquatch was characterized as a girlboss. all the other sasquatches were characterized according to what downton abbey character the narrator thought they were most like
- squatch smashes a tesla
- an ipad is sort of an important character
- nathan fillion narrates part of the audiobook
- i’m reeling from the epilogue
The first half of the book is sooo slow um but beyond that like it really is the book it promised it would be. And I chose to use my limited focus to start and complete the audiobook. which ultimately does says things about society checkmate 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Torture, and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Eating disorder, Excrement, Racism, and Antisemitism

judassilver's review against another edition

dark informative tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Excrement, and Death

Moderate: Fatphobia

Minor: Grief, War, Antisemitism, Cancer, Eating disorder, Genocide, Panic attacks/disorders, and Alcohol

mx_harpstar's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Death of parent, Excrement, Body horror, and Cursing

Moderate: Eating disorder, War, and Antisemitism

proceduralbob's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Excrement

Minor: Eating disorder and Death of parent

percys_panda_pillow_pet's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Animal death, Death, Eating disorder, and Gore

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Excrement, and Blood

Minor: War, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Genocide, and Alcohol

izypup's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Violence, Torture, Gore, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Confinement

Minor: Terminal illness, Cursing, Cancer, Child death, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, Drug use, War, and Classism

its_kievan's review against another edition

dark informative tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Very much a Max Brooks book, with all that implies: a story made up of interview transcripts and diary entries, a focus on how modern technology interacts with the natural world, disdain for Silicon Valley tech people and urban arrogance, obsession with Zulu spears, and discussions of Israel's political situation. The only difference between Devolution and World War Z (which in my opinion is the greatest zombie book of all time), is that the latter forced Brooks to go broad and talk about different people around the world. Here, he went small and did a lot of soapboxing. I may have agreed with most of what he said, but it definitely made this book a lot weaker.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Death

Moderate: Eating disorder and Death of parent

escapinginpaper's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Gore, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, Excrement, Genocide, Islamophobia, and Sexual content

leahrosereads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I love monster stories, always have.  There's something about cryptids that fascinate me, so I'm always interested in reading books centering around one or another. And I got that here with Sasquatch!

I thoroughly enjoyed this story as a whole but found the characters (aside from Mostar) to be so frustrating and pretty unlikeable.  

This is told similarly to WWZ.  There's journal entries, interviews and articles, and honestly, I absolutely love this form of writing.  It made the story come to life!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Eating disorder, Grief, and Mental illness

sydbap's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

3.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder

Lots of calorie counting that may be triggering to those with a history of disordered eating.