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avasadored's review against another edition
dark
funny
reflective
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
5.0
Electric, practically crackles. An overall sensation and a brutally honest depiction of the separation but also connection between motherhood and womanhood. A refreshing horror story with enough humor to make it digestible while also knowing when to cut back on such to explain the intensity and disturbance of certain scenes. I hope Yoder continues to write more novels in her career.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death and Blood
Moderate: Death, Body horror, Cursing, Sexual content, and Gore
Minor: Excrement and Pregnancy
zalouis's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-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
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Gore, Animal death, Blood, and Violence
Moderate: Cursing
saoirsebb's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
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
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence
mermaidsherbet's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
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
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, and Death
Moderate: Child abuse
Minor: Sexual content
kry_yang's review against another edition
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
fast-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? It's complicated
4.0
Nightbitch reminded me a lot of With Teeth (Kristen Arnett), but with a surrealist, gorey, and more magical-realism twist. This book is definitely not for the faint of heart--I enjoy reading body horror but omg I couldn't eat while reading some scenes in the story.
I think the beginning 2/3rds of the story was really strong; the unnamed characters and their relationships with each other are truly fascinating, and I thought Yonder did a great job of capturing the everyday brutality of being a child's caretaker. Some of the language and stream-of-consciousness writing lost me at the end of the story, and I wonder if this novel could have been like 50 pages shorter...
Overall I really enjoyed reading Yonder's prose! It's on the flowery side, but there are plenty of action-packed scenes in the book, so I didn't feel like the author's prose hindered the pacing of the story *too much*. A stellar debut; one of the most disturbing/weird things I've ever read in my life, but stellar nonetheless!
(Also, so many content warnings for this book... This book is really disturbing, like probably more disturbing than anything you've read before...)
I think the beginning 2/3rds of the story was really strong; the unnamed characters and their relationships with each other are truly fascinating, and I thought Yonder did a great job of capturing the everyday brutality of being a child's caretaker. Some of the language and stream-of-consciousness writing lost me at the end of the story, and I wonder if this novel could have been like 50 pages shorter...
Overall I really enjoyed reading Yonder's prose! It's on the flowery side, but there are plenty of action-packed scenes in the book, so I didn't feel like the author's prose hindered the pacing of the story *too much*. A stellar debut; one of the most disturbing/weird things I've ever read in my life, but stellar nonetheless!
(Also, so many content warnings for this book... This book is really disturbing, like probably more disturbing than anything you've read before...)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Violence
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