Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

Correr o morir by James Dashner

8 reviews

alexsian29's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted mysterious tense 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? No

3.5

Like the story, don’t like the writing style. I think the fact I’ve seen the films so many times it didn’t help. Although I think the plot is good, the use of slang words was starting to send me over the edge - if I see the word “shuck” one more time, I may have to poke my eye out with a fork. Also….. telepathy????? I’m not really here for that development, so glad they didn’t include that in the films. It just seemed like a lazy plot device to make things make sense / allow Thomas to discover things whilst Theresa was still in a coma. Literally added nothing to the plot, wasn’t helped by the lack of chemistry between Theresa and Thomas. I’m sure this book would have been more suspenseful for me if i hadn’t seen the films and already knew a fair amount of the big “reveals”. Ultimately felt quite slow paced for me, I want to love it but it’s not quite there. Feel a bit indifferent but have a higher rating for the plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, and Blood

Moderate: Child death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Pandemic/Epidemic

voldycat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Vomit and Murder

Minor: Gun violence and Pandemic/Epidemic

uselesspirateraven's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Misogyny, Self harm, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic

booklov3r5019's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad medium-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? N/A

4.5

I. LOVED. THIS. SERIES. The only thing I will say, though, is that the first couple of chapters were a little bit slow, but once you get past those, it's GREAT. And, I really never read books that don't have at least some amount of romance in it, but this book was really good! Even though it had a little bit of it, it wasn't like it was terrible because it was barely there. I think it was a little bit refreshing, maybe, to read a book that was mainly focused just on the adventure side of it, rather than it being split between adventure and romance. But, either way, it was really good, so you should 100% read it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

lilsisbooklist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Vomit

barefootsierra's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Abandonment, and Pandemic/Epidemic

swimfast724's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Grief, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Death of parent, and Pandemic/Epidemic

fe_aye's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This was a really, really well constructed mystery dystopia. I finally got around to reading this and I do not regret it at all, it’s tense, emotional, and everything works together until the very end. 

Thomas is such a fun protagonist and I love seeing his interactions with the others, Chuck, Teresa, Minho, Alby. They’re all such fun. To anyone who has any doubts about this series do check it out, it was worth all the fuss. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, and Drug use

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic