Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

True Crime by Samantha Kolesnik

36 reviews

lunababybat's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I'm not sure how to feel about this one. It was good, fine. But it felt like something was missing. To me, at least, it wasn't really splatterpunk. It was disturbing at first, but once the two siblings set off, it really didn't do much aside from a lot of introspection. Which is fine, but not what I was looking for in an extreme horror book. I can tell the author was trying to convey a message, but I'm not sure what it was by the end. Writing itself was fine, more character driven than anything, but it just was missing something. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Self harm, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Sexual content, Vomit, Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Blood, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

neverbpractical's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Incest, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Death of parent, Pedophilia, and Violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Rape

Minor: Pregnancy, Kidnapping, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Animal cruelty, and Fire/Fire injury

zkoch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Murder, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

hannahbeanies's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Animal death, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Fire/Fire injury

alexcfred's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

2.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty

mariahkindareads's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Kidnapping and Vomit

slintangel's review against another edition

challenging dark fast-paced

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

0.25

sometimes the answer is to stop writing weird fetishy trauma porn. half of the book is just suzy getting oggled at, being threatened with sexual assault or listening to tyrades about women being worthless. it's boring once you get over the shock factor and how poorly it's used.

every character other than the main two is innocent and dumb and trusting as opposed to our eternal edgelord who not a barbie, but someone you'd find at the thrift store (actual quote). a woman stops her car in the middle of the night because the plot needed to advance and was poorly excused with "women are not taught to trust their own gut". please...

animals are constantly dying which also gets exhausting and boring. theres a huge time skip of about two years right when things get mildly interesting and then boom. it's just weird misogynistic plotlines and more animal murder. the ending is incredibly lackluster and with the way this girl has been behaving its VERY hard for me to believe no one thought anything was wrong with her and tried to put her in some form of psychiatric care. you're really not as slick and smart as your thought process seems to think.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Animal death, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, and Sexism

Moderate: Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Car accident

heathersbooks100's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Murder, Rape, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Torture, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Car accident, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Gore, and Kidnapping

ashmont27's review against another edition

challenging dark sad 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

2.0

I think this book tried to explore some interesting themes (power, femininity, what I means to be good/bad), but it spent more time trying to be graphic and upsetting than actually saying anything interesting. You can explore these themes without being incredibly exploitative just for shock value. I love a gruesom tale, but its gotta have more of a point than this. I'm certainly not gonna forget it, but not in a good way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Rape, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Pedophilia

dee_elizabeth's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Loved this book so much. I found myself relating to some of the concepts that were mentioned when it comes to being a woman and it made me so emotional lol. This author writes very very well, and this is her first book? I'm amazed and so impressed. Would 100% read more books by this author. This was such a good book, definitely recommend anyone to read it. (If you're into this genre) 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Violence, Bullying, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Physical abuse