Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

255 reviews

elenafrancesca's review against another edition

4.0

This is classic King, reads like one of his TV movies - kinda camp, kinda extenstential, kinda makes you want to vomit (but not too much). I have heard not many people like the ending, I thought it was satisfying and fit with the tone of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Child death

mickraine's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Alcohol, Animal death, Terminal illness, Animal cruelty, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Body horror, Cannibalism, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, Vomit, and Murder

Minor: Incest and War

heatheri's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.75

Any time I had, I couldn't put it down. A must read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Cannibalism, Murder, Death of parent, Grief, Child death, Blood, Medical content, and Violence

rat_leoo's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Child death, Death, Medical content, Animal death, Murder, Violence, and Gore

gretschpro08's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Animal death

alma_lurie_04's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Animal death

knowh19's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death and Death

angst_of1's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.5

A really good book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Suicide and Sexual content

maddsonny's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Pacing of book is great. Judd is a very likable character, I loved him reading this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Child death, Grief, Animal death, Murder, Car accident, Medical trauma, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual content, and Cursing

squids_can_read's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

A cemetery that can bring pets back to life. It seems like a joke but not for the Creed family. When they move to their new home next to a busy street, the Creed family has to deal with the looming threat of the Pet Sematary in their backyard. And it may be more than the Creed family can handle. 

This book starts off extremely slowly. There is a great amount of set-up for the rest of the events in the novel. Pet Sematary focuses less on the horror aspect of the cemetery and instead focuses on grief. In that way, I thought that this book was very good but slow with the rising action happening extremely late in the book.  

Overall, it was a good book in terms of the depictions of grief but in the case of a horror book, it was a bit of a letdown. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Child death