Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Dans la lande immobile by Sarah Moss

74 reviews

caileigh's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Further evidence that just having a PhD doesn’t mean you’re not an idiot. 
Also you might want to have a very basic idea of bog people prior to reading. Also if you’re a rabbit owner,

you should know that they hunt rabbits.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse

Minor: Racial slurs

poisoned_icecream's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Silvie and her parents are participating in an Iron Age reenactment with a professor and three students. Her dad is a cringey racist and misogynist piece of shit who hits his wife and daughter. Silvie and her mom are too afraid to stand up to him because he is loud and obnoxious. It is very obvious that to her dad (forgot his name), the reenactment is really an attempt to live out his pathetic fantasy in which there are no immigrants and women are there merely to cook and clean, especially when he and the professor make a ghost wall out of rabbit and cow skulls to keep out their imaginary enemies. This entire book is clearly a huge middle finger to Brexit and I love it so much.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Body shaming, Domestic abuse, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Classism

kalldaff's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.75

Writing style was unique and, although a little tricky to get into, added a lot to the dreamy quality of the whole story. I was so fearful that this would have a tragic ending, but the fact that it ended with two women coming to the rescue really healed some part of me. The fact that it seemed so obvious that the 17 year old girl would be victimized, just as is suggested of the bog girls throughout the story, yet it is through a college girl and a midwife that we as the readers are shown just how absurd it all is. Loved it. Hard to put into words how it made me feel.

---

Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Homophobia

feralbookwife's review against another edition

fast-paced

3.75

Haunting in every way.

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexism, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Abandonment, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Child abuse, Toxic relationship, and Blood

ellenigrace's review against another edition

dark sad tense

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

2.75

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Animal death, Blood, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Gore, Child abuse, and Murder

jehangel's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

artis_meretrix's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful 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

3.0

Beautiful imagery of nature. Horrifying exploration of pressured consent. Reminded me of the quote “when you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.” 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Child death, Body horror, Physical abuse, Sexism, Animal death, Torture, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Cultural appropriation, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Racism, Classism, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Vomit

himemiyaa's review against another edition

challenging dark informative mysterious reflective tense 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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Racial slurs and Racism

softbitten's review against another edition

dark reflective tense

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

2.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Misogyny

Moderate: Colonisation and Animal death

jaimc's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Animal death

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Minor: Racism