Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

14 reviews

sherylm0rgan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny reflective 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? Yes

5.0

I love this book and this series! Very thought provoking. Hoping it’ll become a show someday.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Sexual content, Trafficking, and Pandemic/Epidemic

mybestfriendsarefictional's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Much preffered this one to the first in the series. Excited go read the final book soon!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

violator's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Drug abuse, and Murder

elm45's review against another edition

dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Sexual violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Drug use and Vomit

naemy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Rape, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

maddie_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

So I thought that this was my second time reading this book, but I realized that I had not finished it the first time in ~2014 because towards the end there was content that I found especially disturbing around sexual assault

a female character gets kidnapped by two men and it's implied that she has undergone severe sexual assaults even though details are not described

and one of my friends had recently been sexually assaulted so I found this part of the book too difficult to read at the time. I wrote this first just to warn that there are strong themes of sexual violence / violence against women in this book that were not present in the first and you may have to skip this one or skip specific chapters if you can't read about stuff like that right now. 

That being said, I thought this book was absolutely amazing. Such a unique way to write a sequel and connect it with the first book while expanding on the world so much. I really enjoyed that the book jumped between characters POVs and jumped between time. Loved seeing how characters from this book were related to characters from the first book. 

I really liked the Canadian references. 

All three narrators were very good and this was the first time I'd experienced an audiobook where they made the songs actual songs which I thought was really cool.

the only thing for the songs was I think it would have been better if the songs after year 25 the waterless flood wouldve had no music, just been the guy singing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, and Torture

pinkthinkydink's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-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

This genius novel is a perfect sequel to 'Oryx and Crake'. This Dystopian/Speculative Fiction novel reads like poetry and paints an intricate picture of the failings of humanity. This novel does a bang-up job of answering the questions we are left with after the first novel and once again warns us of the dangers of a hyper-capitalist society. 
this book, however, is not for the faint-hearted. Sensitive readers beware

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

allydee's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious 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

MAGGIE U MAKE ME SO UNHINGED how am i to think about anything else now? 

This was so fucking perfect 

Its like if you threw spagettie at the wall and it look like a bug mess of lots of spaghetti at first and then you realised it was all one perfect single strand of spaghetti that maggie a left for you 

'But compassion takes work, and we were young.'

 'Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together. 

ARE YOU KIDDING ME WITH THAT??? 

HOW AM I MEANT TO GO ABOUT MY DAY 

NOW MAGGIE???

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

jadziaaudrey's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Death and Rape