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Probably the most common reason anyone quits reading this book: so much animal cruelty.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book took me far too long to get through, especially for being less than 200 pages long. The “big twist” that people seemed to have been so amazed by was honestly very lacking. The fact that our plot twist was that Frank was unknowingly trans (his father experimented on him) and that’s somehow why he’s a psychopath and a misogynistic murderer is awful. Even if the author hadn’t intended it to be transphobic (which, I’m still personally processing how it was written to determine if it was meant to be or not), I felt that it was more for shock value than anything, which is obviously a huge issue. I’m not entirely certain what to say about this other than I wouldn’t recommend it and I don’t understand how it is considered one of the “top 100 novels of the century” by The Independent.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Torture, Murder
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization
challenging
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
idk really
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty
Moderate: Sexism, Transphobia
This book was a living form of “flight of ideas”. Set up to character development from the start was poor, story telling was confusing and unexplained, in the sense that things were happening because the character just went and did them but the reader isn’t told why. Read about half the book and still nothing had happened besides the main character doing some weird/torturous/random things. I’m not one to stop reading a book, but this wasn’t worth what time I did put into it. Picked this book because I like horror and had seen it recommended as “one of the greatest horror books”, far from! Writing things that are f***ed up just to write them, doesn’t make it a good horror. The character felt nothing so therefore, you feel nothing.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Transphobia, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Racism, Excrement
i dont understand the point of this book. the animal torture and killing were disturbing, but that seems like all of the horror. honestly, i dont QUITE understand how seeing a childs brain getting eating by maggots would make someone go insane and start burning dogs alive. i understood the worms and maggots thing but why we start burning animals
also im pretty sure this book just said that the reason frank is a murderer and animal torturer is because hes trans. on that note, im extremely confused. somehow he never noticed he has a vagina? hows their sex ed? has he never looked, once?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death
challenging
dark
tense
fast-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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Torture
dark
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death