Reviews tagging 'Addiction'

The Loop by Ben Oliver, Ben Oliver

6 reviews

dandelionsteph's review against another edition

medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Suicide, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Minor: Terminal illness and Fire/Fire injury

Technically, it's

soldiers, not police officers

which

pick off any survivors of the initial apocalyptic event

, but the "marshals" which take the protagonists away are clearly terrible people, giving him mere minutes for a trial, so I'll count it as this element anyway. The "mass shootings" isn't in the context of a lone gunman or a small squad of gunmen, and is more similar to the context of war or domestic insurgency, but it's similar enough to an open-air mass shooting that I'll count it as one. The terminal illness is a

"mystery flu", rather than a real-life terminal illness or one conventionally similar to a terminal illness, but, functionally, it might as well be a terminal illness, because it's very rare and the characters cannot afford its extremely expensive cure.

The "car accident" element is a flying car that was hijacked, and the characters crash-landed it rather than have it go back to their enemies. Still, it's close enough.

butterklotz's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Addiction, Torture, and Murder

antonia_00's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

I don’t know what to say... I just couldn’t stop reading this book. It is very brutal and short: a mix between "Maze Runner" and "Ghost in the shell". Nevertheless I have to say that the end has disappointed me a little and I don’t really believe it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, and War

Moderate: Addiction, Panic attacks/disorders, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

rachel_reads_sometimes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, and Murder

whatisthebooksellerthinking's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Terrifyingly relevant, dystopian thriller - set in the not too distant future! As a prisoner kept in 'The Loop', Luka Kane exists in a repetitive monotony. 24 hour monitoring via a camera implant and energy reaping every evening to power 'The Loop', the only hope of a pardon comes in the form of 'Delays'.  Accepting a medical test or experiment can grant you added time to your sentence. When rumours of an uprising on the outside reach Luka, and his inmates return from delays showing disturbing behaviour, he becomes convinced that something is afoot. How will he find out? How will he escape? Powerful dark thriller, raising issues of AI technology and it's implications for society. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Police brutality

Moderate: Addiction

breezer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Blood, and Medical trauma