Reviews tagging 'Blood'

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

117 reviews

reading__redhead's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad 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? No

4.0

Very Percabeth/Solangelo in Tartarus coded and I’m here for it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Biphobia, Body horror, Bullying, Chronic illness, Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Outing, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

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

seren's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Misogyny, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

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

instalovewithbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I was engaged with this book until the middle. I felt like it dipped down, and got boring. I do like the story but I felt like things should have been cut and for a good portion of it, it dragged. It also was a bit difficult to read a book about a super flu when COVID is still at our heels. 

I will say the queer awakening for Jamieson was great, but boy are these boys dumb. Why did you need another character to tell you that you love each other?? 

Overall, a decent read. 💕

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

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

bmceleney's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Medical content, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

blueskyreview's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.5

I'd been meaning to read this one, so when word of a sequel reached me, I immediately bumped it up the list.

I found this to be an easy read and immediately fell in love with our two main characters, Andrew and Jamie. With the dual POV, it was great to see these two boys learn to trust and depend on one another.

This is perfect if you're looking for a virus wiped out the majority of the global population, two queer boys find each other, those two boys decide to try and find other survivors, then have to deal with dwindling supplies, wild animals, injuries, and who people become when faced with rebuilding their world.

As much as this book has some darker moments Brown does a great job of bringing humor into the story to balance it out while not taking away from the seriousness of certain situations and the consequences that come from them.

I'm very excited to start the sequel!

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Homophobia