Reviews with content warning for Pandemic/Epidemic - Salgın

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Salgın by Ling Ma

42 reviews

ktdakotareads's review against another edition

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dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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fkshg8465's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional sad 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? Yes

4.0

This book really freaked me out from beginning to end. It was published in August 2018, over a full year before the first case of COVID. Yet, it has so many eerie parallels to COVID. Parts of it were hard to read for this reason. It was a more extreme form of how the pandemic affected society - to the point I expected zombies to start coming to life at any moment. Between the prescience and the severity of the impact, I was so spooked! Lots of other themes underpinning the book too. Great book to teach in school.

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dr_kat's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
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

0.5

I read this tender, troubling, complex, engaging novel and it wedged into the folds of my brain and wouldn’t shake out. Then the world shut down and a plague worked it’s way into our lives. All I could think about was this book. Weirdly, it helped to see how the protagonist handled her situation; her trials and troubles.

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xosirenox's review against another edition

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dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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siriface's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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aweekinthelife's review against another edition

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dark mysterious medium-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? Yes

4.25

so weird to read this 2018 book post-2020 and see all the parallels for how the imagined Shen-fever played out and to see how a global pandemic actually played out. granted, they didn't have to worry about person-to person transmission, but the N95 masks and avoiding people definitely felt familiar.

the story itself switches between Candace's life leading up to Shen-fever and her post-Shen-fever life which starts with her joining this group traveling west to a facility. the group dynamics are definitely weird, and Bob gives real bad vibes.

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