Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton

20 reviews

blueseadragon's review against another edition

emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

The first 50% is worth reading, and then I found myself bored. The ending was kinda unnecessary and felt a bit like a cop-out. I most likely won’t read the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Gore

Moderate: Excrement, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

corriejn's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, and Alcohol

brynnak's review against another edition

funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Death, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

3martini's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Blood, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Drug abuse, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

msawyer77's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Confinement, Suicide, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

ehmannky's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-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? Yes

3.5

3.5/5 There's so much to like in this book--S.T. is a delightful narrator, Dennis is such a great depiction of a hound dog, the depictions of grief and nature and connecting outside of the human world were beautiful, and it was very funny for the most part. 

My main issue is that I hate the idea behind the Not Zombies in this book that the reason that humanity as a whole was doomed was because we just couldn't look up from technology to respect nature. I loved the idea of connecting with deep, natural times (and I love the idea of the the Aura), but I just felt like...this just sort of conflates the ecological problems with big tech/environmentally destructive industries/etc. with individuals. Like...it felt like Buxton should have either made the zombies a metaphor for humanity's over-reliance on social media/phones (a la Warm Bodies) or it should have focused on environmental problems caused by by big corporations. Pushing the two together was just sort of messy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, and Grief

rachaelwho's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

Good, earnest, interesting, sweet. "Mofo" started out grating and contrived and went right on through being super, super annoying. Major plot elements were very obvious but do you really need a book like this to be unpredictable? I didn't. I would've taken it, but I was fine without it. I'll read her next, too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Grief, and War

virtualdragonkitty's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-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

4.0

I really loved this story, even if at times the pacing felt weird. It was fun reading a book about a zombi apocalypse from the eyes of the animals

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Gore, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

annaplatypus's review against another edition

Not my sense of humor. I felt like the pacing of the book was way thrown off by inappropriately timed jokes and asides, plus a generally repetitive writing style. The whiplash between dumb potty jokes and overwrought emotional ponderings was sometimes jarring or genuinely upsetting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Blood, Excrement, and Grief

Minor: Drug abuse and Sexual assault

re: sexual assault, there's basically a scene of implied

dog gang rape, which the main character actually compares to porn. Lovely.

ermagerd_berks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

Even though it drags a bit in the second half, this book easily makes my Top 3 Most Favorite Books Ever list

Aside from what I think is one unnecessary "Where the Red Fern Grows/Old Yeller" moment, this is a fantastic book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Grief