Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

13 reviews

julianship's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

This is a hard book to review because I'm not sure I really got it. I want to read more of the author's poetry - the book feels like a prose poem, so much so that it's often hard to keep track of who's speaking at any given moment.

I personally had a hard time getting past some of the grosser body stuff in the book, but ymmv. There are parts where I was like "oh my God I love this" and then we'd get to another bit of body horror or shit, and I'd have to disengage again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Excrement, and Physical abuse

sucreslibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

stabigail_'s review

challenging mysterious slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Blood, Child abuse, and Cursing