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All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

78 reviews

pip10's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child death, Medical content, and Grief

Minor: Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, and Fire/Fire injury

fishindices's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism and Sexism

fallen_angel1002's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Erik J. Brown knows how to write an apocalypse coming-of-age story. He brings in different themes of both genre types to create something that is beautifully expressive of teen angst at the end of the world. The characters' adventure leads them on a discovery of this new changing world and themselves, making this book a defined read for anyone who loves these genres. It includes some of the 'roommates' tropes as well as coming-out tropes that have been mixed with the stereotypes of a dystopian world. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Medical content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

hazardpossum's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

Fuck you. Fuck off. It feels like someone took my heart and shot it full of drugs and the opposite of mood stabilizers and put it on a rollercoaster and then a rocket to space and tried to put it back and stitch it up only to leave needles still in it. And its my favorite thing ever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Racism, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Alcohol

spaghettii's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Biphobia, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

icarus_fell_burning's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

quinn22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Gore, Physical abuse, Racism, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Abandonment, and Classism

david_slack110507's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-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

3.5

This was more of a 3.5-star listen and I really enjoyed listening to the audiobook as I found it fun to listen to whilst doing something else as well as it being easy to keep track of and while I didn't love every single aspect of this book, I really enjoyed seeing Andrew and Jamison's relationship progress throughout and seeing Jamison become more comfortable with his growing romantic relationship with Andrew as well as coming to terms with his sexuality was really interesting to see with the backdrop of the post-apocalypse world. 

It was entertaining to listen to the post-apocalypse aspects of the book with the pursuit of survival in comparison with the queer representation with Jamison and Andrew as both aren't really found in books, especially together, as there isn't often a whole lot of bisexual representation in media and to have queer representation in a post-apocalyptic book was nice to see and while I do think that some bits of dialogue surrounding either aspect could have been handled better, both the post-apocalypse and queer aspects were my favourite parts of the book. I hope to see them expanded upon in the next book. 

I do wish that the communities and other survivors parts of the apocalypse could have been handled better as while I did like the side-plot of Henry taking in Andrew and Jamison as well as their later mission to find her daughter, I found that the other communities and survivors that we came across throughout the book weren't all that interesting and even the ones that we spent a lot of time with weren't always interesting and so I hope that the next book expands on the characters, outside of Andrew and Jamison, that we have already seen as well as introducing new characters that are just as interesting. I'm hoping to start the next book in the series soon as I found that even though I wouldn't rate this book majorly high, I still really liked being able to just have it on in the background and hopefully the next book will be the same. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia, and Medical content

Minor: Ableism, Drug use, Sexism, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

megh_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny tense

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Grief, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Racism, Vomit, and Religious bigotry

c_alexander's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious relaxing 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Gun violence, Homophobia, and Abandonment

Minor: Racism, Sexism, and Violence