Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon

3 reviews

andrew_corduroy's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.0

This took me so long to get through. Partially because I am easily distracted by other, shorter books when faced with something as thick as this, but also because Robert McCammon wrote something so viscerally plausible that I could only read chunks at a time. It’s dark. At times very dark,

with even the character of a devil incarnate doing less than some of the humans.

Book One was the slow part. There are very tense parts that I ate up

(the wolves and supermarket scenes especially)

but the majority was slow. Once I started Book Two I got pulled in and finished the book much faster than anticipated.

The characters are strongly written, well-defined and clearly fleshed out. The noble and ignoble alike get their time. The setting is thoughtfully explored and no details are spared (it’s 900 pages, of course there’s people emptying shit-buckets) and despite the fact it took me 4 months to read, I genuinely think that I’ll spend time thinking about it well after I finish it.

If you like post-apocalyptic fiction, you should read this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Murder, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Suicide, and Cannibalism

cbug412's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

5.0

If you're looking for a book chronicling the end of the world via nuclear fallout, this may be up your alley. Fairly gruesome but also quite heartwarming at times. A lot of people compare it to King's The Stand, but any way you look at it, it's the classic good vs. evil story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and War

ripxreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Pedophilia, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, and War

Minor: Homophobia and Rape