Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

54 reviews

lordofdisorder's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Alcoholism

owlribbon's review

mysterious

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gaslighting, Gore, Medical content, Murder, and Suicide

charlotteih's review

dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

BRILLIANT. brilliant brilliant. aside from just the kickass narative itself, the poeticism of the mc’s reflections are beautiful and terrible, vandermeer spits straight fire honestly. he reflects the characters’ shifts in attitude/perspective (+ relative sanity) immersively. as the characters became more absorbed in their desires, so do you into the story itself. i couldn’t have been more satisfied with this book, and if you want to dabble in sci-fi or cosmic horror, this book is perfect, and honestly just a great read. i can’t recommend it enough and i will be reading the rest of the trilogy 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Minor: Cancer

chlorentine's review

mysterious reflective tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

It explicitly defies interpretation and yet provides so much to interpret. I have a swirling list of themes in my head that the book discusses-- environmentalism, man's insistence on standing apart from animals, the inner beast in us all, mind-control as a conduit to discuss the manipulation of powerful entities, inverted garden of eden as a grotesque genesis, suicide, sexual violence, and so much more-- but these topics are all approached obliquely through the setting and story rather than anything spoken. A masterclass in letting the work speak for itself.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide and Injury/Injury detail

devirtualized's review

mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Sexual content

jjjreads's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, and Violence

anningana's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

astrocats's review

dark emotional tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Body horror, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

whitllo's review

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

Interesting premise but I was more interested in the world than the characters

Spoiler

so I was disappointed there was so much focus on the biologist's ramblings instead of what was actually going on with Area X and how it got to be that way

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Body horror

Moderate: Gore, Murder, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

ambientdusk's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Body horror