Reviews tagging 'War'

Devolution by Max Brooks

26 reviews

drewdlestrudel's review against another edition

dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Death of parent, and War

ojudson39's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad tense medium-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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Excrement

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: War

nick_27's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Animal death and War

lazy_raven's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Fantastic as expected. Horror, gore, cryptids, suspense. Written as a combo of journals and interviews. Pretty sure Brooks was bingeing some Mountain Monsters like I was during lock down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Excrement

Minor: Death of parent

The child does not die

nikhocharm's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, and War

maddie_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

Really interesting book. the audiobook acting was fantastic with Judy Greer and Nathan Fillion.
 I randomly picked it out from my library only knowing it was science fiction. Loved the structure. 

I really loved how the relationship between Katie and Dan changed over the course of the events unfolding and

really liked Dan's development and the idea that adversity brings out people's true nature and that Dan's floundering in regular life was more a reflection on the crushing nature of our capitalist society and not his inherent value as a person. Absolutely loved how him and Katie grew closer in the tragedy.

There were only a few things I didn't love: I found some of the parts, especially parts where a lot of stuff was happening, difficult to visualize,

like the fight scenes, what green loop looked like, what the eruption Iooked like

the green loop residents were a little overdone at some parts

I really hated why the neighbours had to be so stupid at the beginning of the crisis except this does lead us to one of the most disturbing scenes I've ever listened to in a book with Vincent and Bobby!

, I wish more was done with Tony and Yvette

especially after they "lost control".

Also I really liked Mostar and wouldve liked to know more about her

like from what we knew about her, it's hard to believe that she wouldn't have been more prepared with her having all this like survivalist knowledge/ trauma. And I would've liked to know how she knew Tony and maybe more  about why she trusted him to protect them etc

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Excrement, Grief, Stalking, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Cancer, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Blood, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

mr_ryancowboy's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Eating disorder and War

Minor: Vomit

Natural disaster features prominently

haley_mil_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Genocide and Toxic relationship

laurenmiller100's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

3.75

This is a brutal book. I really enjoyed this story, and the characters and their arcs are fascinating. The way the town devolves as they try to fight off the creatures is horrifying. Moreover, some of the descriptions of violence or death had me wincing while listening.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Stalking, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: War

theremightbecupcakes's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail