Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Sundial by Catriona Ward

220 reviews

laneychaney's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Animal cruelty, Animal death, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Drug abuse, Gore, Suicide attempt, Medical content, Violence, Addiction, Death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Murder, Infidelity, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Self harm, and Torture

Minor: Infertility

kylosten's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

About the ending:

The ending is very open ended so if you like clearcut definitive endings and not having  that will ruin a book for you then probably skip this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Pregnancy, Violence, Miscarriage, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Confinement

sortabadass's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Blood, Emotional abuse, and Animal cruelty

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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? No

5.0

This book was eerie and unsettling and I loved it! The plot twists, especially the last one, were insane and I did not see them coming ! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Vomit, and Animal death

Moderate: Drug use and Infidelity

lopstrosity's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Minor: Miscarriage

jrocbutterfly's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

This book passes a little slowly at the beginning but does not take long to Amp up to a full throttle roller coaster. Told from 2 perpecrives, one of Rob and one of her daughter Callie. Sundial is a terrifying tale of the question, does human experience or true nature make a person evil. Or is it a little bit of both. Ward keeps you guessing through the whole book on what is true, what you truly know, and what really happened. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Addiction, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Animal death

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abortion, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

sarah_bettina's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Animal death

Moderate: Mental illness, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Confinement, Death, Child death, Blood, Miscarriage, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

jesselyn's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Child abuse, Blood, Toxic relationship, Gore, Death, Confinement, Mental illness, Infidelity, Grief, Drug use, Addiction, Self harm, Death of parent, Violence, Misogyny, Miscarriage, Drug abuse, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Gaslighting

lionfish_22's review against another edition

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gaslighting, Murder, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Gore, Mental illness, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

kingkiller99's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, and Murder