Reviews tagging 'War'

Day Zero by C. Robert Cargill

7 reviews

fantasticalsam's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

4.75

Answers the crucial question of what would happen if a teddy bear was given a gun (incredible, it changed me)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Slavery and Stalking

assassinsweettea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Slavery

maidinnah's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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? No

5.0

As thrilling and action-packed as its sequel, with more heart and fluff to spare. While Sea of Rust was more nihilistic and desolate, Day Zero finds pockets of hope in the inevitable apocalypse and reminds us that our greatest power comes from our wired need for love and connection.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child death and Grief

greywolfheir's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Child death

joyfulfoodie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

This book is very well executed. It gets emotional. You are highly invested in these characters. I outright cried multiple times.
There is one thing that bothers me about the ending, so I’ll spoiler cut.

The story ends with Pounce, the nanny bot, taking up a vigil to watch over his kid’s new settlement. Problem is they don’t address a power source. Earlier in the book they do a fabulous job of addressing charging issues, but there is never any hint that they can charge themselves outside with solar or anything. And then we’re supposed to accept a circle of nanny bots sitting out to watch over this camp indefinitely with no grid to support them? Questionable and sloppy. It wouldn’t have taken much to have them sitting in a circle around a solar generator instead of just “in a sewing circle” to tighten that up.

 

There are also a couple of places where you almost get the sense that a character is sacrificed for the sake of a main character’s growth… kind of like the “fridging” a character trope you see in tv sometimes. Since there is a lot of violence in this apocalyptic robot war book it doesn’t really hit you like that in the moment, but it kind of makes you wonder looking back at the end. 

Still. It reeled me in and held me, I was emotionally invested, and thought about it a lot between time listening to the audiobook (which is fabulously executed, superb voice actor.) Five stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, Alcohol, and Classism

kbbru's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

midwestchickadee's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Violence and War