Reviews tagging 'Pandemic/Epidemic'

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

177 reviews

alexsartifacts's review

adventurous dark hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Kidnapping, Blood, Torture, Violence, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Medical content, Body horror, Colonisation, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Grief, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, War, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Vomit

alaris's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

Not sure if this was more uncomfortable because of the gore or the religious trauma I grew up with. It's very much a look at what it means to live as a queer person when the world around you would rather you hid or just didn't exist at all... and about how people can be the worst monsters, especially with hate-filled religion involved.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Transphobia, Emotional abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Deadnaming, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Vomit

vusvusik's review

dark emotional reflective sad 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? Yes

4.5

Very interesting story, the world building was a bit confusing at the beginning but I got the hang of it, love the development of the 3 main characters 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Transphobia, War, Dysphoria, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Child abuse, and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Deadnaming, Genocide, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, and Homophobia

percival_wise's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Death, Mass/school shootings, Gore, Vomit, Kidnapping, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Dysphoria, Gun violence, Murder, Police brutality, Child abuse, Homophobia, Cursing, Transphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Hate crime, Violence, Deadnaming, and War

redus_reuse_recycle's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-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? Yes

3.5

Benji is the epitome of that “Aren’t you tired of being nice? Don’t you just wanna go apeshit?” And I love that for him. I hope he and Nick kiss forever and ever. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, and Body horror

Moderate: Homophobia and Transphobia

pacifickat's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad 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? No

4.25

*review to follow*

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Child death, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Misogyny, Transphobia, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Deadnaming, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Gore, Murder, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Cursing, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Classism

Religious extremism, religious fanaticism, religious terrorism, mass extinction, disease transmission, misgendering, fundamentalist parents, biblical text quotations, the book of Revelation, end times theology, violent rage, guilt, shame, fear, religious indoctrination

sylexlibris's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Deadnaming, Dysphoria, Transphobia, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Death of parent, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Child abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, and Vomit

allys_shelf's review

I knew the content warnings going in, but did not understand just how much of a focus the body horror, gore, and vomit were going to be. 

I tried to push through because this is a raw and powerful story, but ultimately I need to step back from it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Homophobia, Murder, Blood, Child death, Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Violence, Body horror, Pandemic/Epidemic, Fire/Fire injury, and Vomit

raccoonfoo's review

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? Yes

5.0

Dark, powerful, thrilling, and mind consuming. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Violence, Torture, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Child abuse, Misogyny, Death, Deadnaming, Body horror, Bullying, Transphobia, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gore, Fire/Fire injury, and Dysphoria

spadedigsbutts's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Religious bigotry, Body horror, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Violence, Grief, Ableism, Child death, Transphobia, Vomit, Blood, Domestic abuse, Dysphoria, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Murder

Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Child abuse, Hate crime, Body shaming, Bullying, Lesbophobia, Medical content, Confinement, Outing, and Classism

Minor: Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Torture, and Toxic friendship