Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages by Matthew Green

1 review

outsmartyourshelf's review

adventurous informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

The synopsis looked fascinating & it turned out to be an engaging & informative read - for the most part. The author has completed lots of research & visits to the sites of some of Britain's lost towns & cities. From Old Winchelsea on the coast washed away by successive sea flooding, to the places commandeered for training purposes by the army amidst WWII, & an island community in the Outer Hebrides (St Kilda) which was eventually cleared of the few remaining residents in the early twentieth-century.

As mentioned above, it is written in an engaging style, & I feel I learned quite a lot. My one criticism is the repeated (but usually brief) mentioning of animals (mainly rabbits, dogs, & birds) being killed, sometimes purposefully to stop them killing other livestock, but at other times just because they were an inconvenience to 'progress'. It unfortunately happens, but I'd rather not read about it as I find it very upsetting. For that reason, I had to take a star off as it rather marred my enjoyment of certain chapters.

My thanks to NetGalley & publishers, Faber & Faber, for the opportunity to read an ARC. I am voluntarily giving an honest review.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death