Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy

140 reviews

rgagnon831's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Man what a ride. Upsetting. Infuriating. Empowering? I guess kinda… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, and Murder

yanamool's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

Interesting book with lots of themes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

bailey888's review against another edition

dark inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is one of the best books I have ever read. Terrifying, hilarious, and full of girl power. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Gore

mackennac's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Blood, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Death, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

readbooksovermygrave's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexism and Religious bigotry

snslagle's review against another edition

dark funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual violence, Torture, and Murder

camilleleon'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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Death

jesskabooom's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death

turtle_puff95's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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

1.0

For being so highly rated, I really didn't like this. It has a grungy, grubby feeling the whole way through. If that was the intent of the atmosphere, the author nailed it. This book just felt dirty.
Mary loses her job and gets a call from her Aunt (nasty woman) that she hates. She goes to live with her for a bit and sort of find herself. What she finds is she can see dead woman all over town and finds more and more of her memories that she's forgotten.

Turns out, she is the reincarnation of a serial killer who was a worshipped cult leader. The cult pretty much just kills a few women every year for the heck of it. Mary finds a way to fight back against the killer inside of her and kill him, leaving just herself, reborn as her own person now, no longer controlled by the killer. And she also befriends the dead women, takes them to live with her in New York and occasionally let's them kill people. But hey. At least she likes herself now.

Eye roll. This was slow moving, and even through the horror elements I became bored. This went a totally different direction than I imagined and not in a good way. As soon as the cult showed up I was ready to DNF. I was just too far in to not know what happened.
As far as horror books go, you can skip this one. You aren't missing much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Torture, Blood, and Murder

hixxie25's review against another edition

Stopped at the "sacrificial" cactus scene because I didn't want to hear it and it wasn't even necessary to the plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Body shaming and Bullying

Minor: Death of parent