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paukinra's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and War
Moderate: Child death, Genocide, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic
Minor: Pedophilia and Cannibalism
murk's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Moderate: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol
Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Excrement, and Cannibalism
ninczo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Moderate: Hate crime and Racism
Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, and Classism
magdie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
To me, the characters felt pretty flat, the plot either dragging or extremely rushed, the translation (Slovak) was pretty mediocre if not outright bad. I must admit this is not my usual genre but it's not like I can't enjoy a good apocalypse story. This one, however, was not quite it for me. At around the Great Worm time I got pretty bored by the Artom gets in trouble, almost dies but by plot armor or Deus-ex-machina-like device is saved by absolutely no effort or merit of his own. It felt like a lazy story structure. It also quite destroyed the attempt at tension since I knew that mc WILL survive and the others probably won't. The world building was pretty nice and interesting in global although in some places (mostly society) still didn't feel quite real. But I liked the contrast and tension between old and young characters and their outlook at the world that the author managed to create.
Also, probably just a pet peeve of mine, but where were all the women? If I remember correctly there were altogether 2 named female characters, both with maybe half a page of screentime (if that)....
But the ending was pretty good, really made for that Humans will destroy everything given the chance.
291, 332, 340
Graphic: Child death, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, Murder, and War
Minor: Genocide
kuroishi_x's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gun violence, and Violence
Moderate: Racism, Torture, and Religious bigotry
Minor: Pedophilia, Cannibalism, and Alcohol
isaaah's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Racism, Torture, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Alcohol
Minor: War
ishouldbereading's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
Still I have such mixed feelings about this book.
It was soo slow paced and boring, so many descriptions and unnecessary subplots. Also character/plot holes - what happened to Hunter for example? It wasn't totally scifi, had some magic or fantasy moments that weren't explained, what happened in the tunnels in the start??
ALSO THE END? EXCUSE ME? WHAT HAPPENED THERE????? I NEED ANSWERS!!!
But I really liked the internal monologues of Artyom and I feel like a lot of people forget about this but he had such deep and meaningful thoughts, it was so great to read about it and tbh that's what saved this book for me.
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Child death, Racism, Violence, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Gun violence, Pedophilia, Suicide, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
leahebinns's review against another edition
3.5
Moderate: Child death, Confinement, and Gun violence
Minor: Cannibalism