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anawest's review
5.0
This was not a perfect book, but it had a perfect beginning and a perfect ending, and also most of it felt like someone was taking a meat cleaver to my insides and then laying them out on a table in a pretty table arrangement. Which is my ideal reading experience. Anyway, loved loved loved this.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Child death, and Grief
Moderate: Medical trauma and Domestic abuse
Minor: Rape, Animal death, and Suicidal thoughts
belovedb33's review
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Child death, Body horror, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Self harm, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Blood, Abandonment, Child abuse, Alcohol, Medical trauma, Grief, Death, and Animal death
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Fatphobia
mmccombs's review against another edition
dark
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
Chouette is a book I think about quite regularly and I have a feeling Poor Deer will be the same! Dark, so sad, but also ultimately hopeful, Poor Deer imagines alternate memories and pasts and futures. It was interesting reading this right after Interesting Facts About Space, another new release where a young woman navigates childhood shame and false memories. The writing was so beautiful and often seeping with a kind of gross, dank undertone that lent to a dark fairytale feeling, I could so fully see and smell and feel this book. The ending didn’t fully land for me, but everything was so strong otherwise, it is a story with staying power.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Medical content, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical trauma
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Abandonment, and Mental illness
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