Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

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16 reviews

mosshaunt'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? Yes

2.5

reads like a YA novel written for adults. if you're like me and personally don't like typical YA writing conventions, keep that in mind.

too many characters, not enough time to meet them. lots of infodumps and while i didn't mind the first journal, the second journal and verbal exposition bloated the story for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse and Child death

Minor: Lesbophobia, Ableism, Animal death, and Racism

One character's entire backstory deals with ritual/cult abuse. I would consider it moderate to graphic.

snaggy95's review against another edition

challenging dark tense

3.0

The concept of murderous hide & seek is always intriguing & this book was enjoyable enough. I only gave it 3 stars because it irks me when characters happen to stumble across something that spells everything out for them. It's the cliche of the villain telling the victim their master plan & ultimately ruining things for themselves because of it. Some of the characters were annoying, but that's okay because they're meant to be. The dynamic between characters is fun to see unfold & it raises the stakes to see who, if any, of them make it out alive.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Child death, Blood, Murder, Suicide, Abandonment, Animal death, Violence, Domestic abuse, and Child abuse

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Suicide, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Child abuse, Classism, Gun violence, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Ableism, Religious bigotry, Homophobia, Sexism, Animal death, and Abandonment

vanesst's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Child death, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Blood, Classism, and Suicide

Minor: Animal cruelty, Abandonment, and Animal death

aaronreadsatad's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Body horror, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Classism, Confinement, and Cursing

axel_p's review

challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I Hated all the characters, they didn't have any personality except for the stereotypes.
None of the characters had any chemistry with eachother.
The ending sucked.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Religious bigotry, Ableism, Animal death, Death, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Self harm, Homophobia, Infidelity, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Murder, and Child death

jmeyers888's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Racism, Domestic abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Child death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and War

tarynlannister's review

dark mysterious 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

First of all, I came to the reviews before reading to try to find out if the LGBTQ character(s) die, so I will provide that information in spoiler tag for you! 

They live :)

I'm really not a horror fan usually, but my book club picked this and I'll be the first to tell you I devoured it in a day. I was really pleasantly surprised by so much about it. Yes, it's horror, people are killed off, but once the story really picked up deaths weren't just gratuitous for the horror element. Most of the fear came from the unknown, not excessive descriptions of gore. So if you're like me you may enjoy it, but it may not necessarily be for more hardcore horror fans. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Gun violence, Murder, Religious bigotry, Classism, Death of parent, Child abuse, Child death, and Grief

Minor: Racism and Animal death

A side character who is cruel and unsympathetic is severely injured by another character and does not die immediately. There are descriptions of blood, gore, and suffering, which may be disturbing. A main character considers a mercy killing but does not do it. A character is traumatized by the murder of her family, including her child sister. She occasionally flashes back to this, and descriptions of the event are creepy and sad but not very graphic. A character was raised in a cult, and occasionally briefly discusses it.

krystalg's review

dark mysterious tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicide, Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Death of parent, Blood, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Medical trauma, Abandonment, and Cursing

Minor: Homophobia, Racism, and Animal death

juffnstuff's review

dark emotional fast-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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, and Murder