Reviews tagging 'Child death'

All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

52 reviews

hazardpossum's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Fuck you. Fuck off. It feels like someone took my heart and shot it full of drugs and the opposite of mood stabilizers and put it on a rollercoaster and then a rocket to space and tried to put it back and stitch it up only to leave needles still in it. And its my favorite thing ever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racism, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

gloomybear_jazz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

spaghettii's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

quinn22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, and Classism

david_slack110507's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad 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

This was more of a 3.5-star listen and I really enjoyed listening to the audiobook as I found it fun to listen to whilst doing something else as well as it being easy to keep track of and while I didn't love every single aspect of this book, I really enjoyed seeing Andrew and Jamison's relationship progress throughout and seeing Jamison become more comfortable with his growing romantic relationship with Andrew as well as coming to terms with his sexuality was really interesting to see with the backdrop of the post-apocalypse world. 

It was entertaining to listen to the post-apocalypse aspects of the book with the pursuit of survival in comparison with the queer representation with Jamison and Andrew as both aren't really found in books, especially together, as there isn't often a whole lot of bisexual representation in media and to have queer representation in a post-apocalyptic book was nice to see and while I do think that some bits of dialogue surrounding either aspect could have been handled better, both the post-apocalypse and queer aspects were my favourite parts of the book. I hope to see them expanded upon in the next book. 

I do wish that the communities and other survivors parts of the apocalypse could have been handled better as while I did like the side-plot of Henry taking in Andrew and Jamison as well as their later mission to find her daughter, I found that the other communities and survivors that we came across throughout the book weren't all that interesting and even the ones that we spent a lot of time with weren't always interesting and so I hope that the next book expands on the characters, outside of Andrew and Jamison, that we have already seen as well as introducing new characters that are just as interesting. I'm hoping to start the next book in the series soon as I found that even though I wouldn't rate this book majorly high, I still really liked being able to just have it on in the background and hopefully the next book will be the same. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Ableism, Drug use, Sexism, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

biobeetle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Death of parent

lauwbinx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Death of parent, and Murder

katebella's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death

teslis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

3.5

Me and my friend have both had this book on our shelves for ages and now we read it together! 
It was a bit slow in the beginning and I didn’t get that far in it before putting it down. So I wasn’t super interested in the beginning. 
But, as I was reading I got so hooked, I read like 2/3 of the book in like 36 hours (including sleeping and working). I was stuck, but there were some parts that I didn’t enjoy that much or feel weird about.

Them finding the Fosters and Jamie thinking about how he is in love, them kissing when they’ve been captured by propel who don’t like queer people and also the end meh

But overall it was a nice read, I was not ready for the more intense and “scary” parts of it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Homophobia, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

rubi_blue6's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I love the post-apocalyptic genre. I love the game Fallout, I read The girl with all the gifts when I was 18 and last year I read The book of Koli series (highly recomend)

Romance novels? Not usually for me. But what I think this book succeeded in was making it not about some elusive once in a lifetime love; the core romance felt authentic. And then there's the familal love, the friendships, love for media and the world that's left behind

The author didn't shy away from the ugliness that's inevitably left in the post-apocalyptic world. 

It reads like a video game, with the small side-quests, goals and moments of brief encounters or observations

I picked this up in a charity shop because I love the genre; I wasn't expecting anything groundbreaking but I got an sad, lovely narrative that was tense and a little dark

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Vomit, and Murder

Minor: Child death and Homophobia