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A review by dandelionsteph
The Loop by Ben Oliver
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and War
Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Suicide, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent
Minor: Terminal illness and Fire/Fire injury
Technically, it's soldiers, not police officers which pick off any survivors of the initial apocalyptic event , but the "marshals" which take the protagonists away are clearly terrible people, giving him mere minutes for a trial, so I'll count it as this element anyway.
The "mass shootings" isn't in the context of a lone gunman or a small squad of gunmen, and is more similar to the context of war or domestic insurgency, but it's similar enough to an open-air mass shooting that I'll count it as one.
The terminal illness is a "mystery flu", rather than a real-life terminal illness or one conventionally similar to a terminal illness, but, functionally, it might as well be a terminal illness, because it's very rare and the characters cannot afford its extremely expensive cure.
The "car accident" element is a flying car that was hijacked, and the characters crash-landed it rather than have it go back to their enemies. Still, it's close enough.