Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

8 reviews

nanadalmatian's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Medical content, Abandonment, Animal death, Classism, Violence, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Animal cruelty, and Child death

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, and Alcoholism

Minor: Body shaming, Dysphoria, Cultural appropriation, Confinement, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

daniellemjoyce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Racism, Sexual content, Cultural appropriation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Violence, Eating disorder, Grief, Drug use, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

Minor: Murder and Pandemic/Epidemic

alleahwebb's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• 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? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Classism, Confinement, Colonisation, Eating disorder, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Blood, Physical abuse, and Violence

scifi_rat's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Racism, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Animal death, Classism, Confinement, Grief, Pandemic/Epidemic, Blood, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Vomit, Violence, and Toxic relationship

jordan21's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This book was absolutely seductive; the perfect mix of fantasy and reality. The writing felt muddy at times during scenes of tension, but was beautifully descriptive everywhere else. Zhang seamlessly weaves themes of race, poverty, environmentalism and Scientology with queerness, feminism and sexuality. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic and Racism

Moderate: Eating disorder, Classism, and Violence

wynnebirchmaple's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This short big runs deep and wide. It’s a lot of things… Dystopia, Socio-political commentary, Satire, Gastro Horror, Loss of a Mother story, and a cautionary tale regarding climate collapse, how we change food and food changes us and change is inevitable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Lesbophobia, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Fatphobia, Classism, Vomit, Sexual content, Pandemic/Epidemic, Confinement, Sexual violence, Racism, Emotional abuse, Cultural appropriation, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Eating disorder, Cannibalism, and Colonisation

It’s not as bad as the content warnings might suggest but it tries to be for brief moments. Is this why Ron Charles hated this book? I enjoyed it

amhud1030's review against another edition

Just wasn’t for me, wasn’t what I expected. I did not like any of the characters, a lot of the food that was cooked sounded disgusting. There was a lot of descriptions of food that was being thrown away and wasteful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, and Drug use

dystopia's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Classism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Car accident

Minor: Physical abuse, Alcohol, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Child death