Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

15 reviews

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

fung_eyes's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny 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? No

4.75

Thoroughly enjoyed it. I read a review which said oryx and crake was the male version and year of the flood is the female version. I love Toby. It’s made me want to reread oryx and crake so that I can pick out Amanda and Bernice and Ren again. I also love Zeb.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Rape

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

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

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

skeptic_hecate's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Margaret Atwood seldom fails to make copativating and rich stories. The environment, the world building, even though it is contained in one part, it is abundant and three dimensional. I haven't read the first book in the series, but one can enjoy this book as a stand alone. I loved the characters, even the annoying Ren, she is the one I leastr liked, but I still found her enjoyable. I will definitely read the rest of the series, even without the cliffhanger. Also, what a cliffhanger. I listened to this book as an audiobook, and the Gardner's songs are masterfully sang. All the voives are magnificent. Honestly I wish more books had this high quality audiobooks. Highly recommended. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Violence

Moderate: Torture, Kidnapping, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Animal death

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

kendallbehr's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful reflective slow-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

4.5

I loved how this tied in with Oryx and Crake while also having the strength to be a standalone. I would say it's a slow burn middle filler to give you a lot of background on Oryx and Crake (they happen sort of concurrently). Atwood again with female main characters and you find out more about the Maddaddam group

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

wormgirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Terminal illness

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Blood, Death of parent, and Classism

nabisteph'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic