Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

11 reviews

calamitydane's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Simultaneously one of the realest and most surreal books I've ever read. Blandine is, in equal parts, endearing and insufferable. She reads very much like the very knowledgeable but not very wise epitome of her age. I loved the little asides of odd but remarkably real looks into other people's lives and how they all tied together.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Death, Drug use, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty

bethany_grace's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

beautiful, beautiful writing 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Animal death, Blood, Death, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, and Animal cruelty

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

3.5

This was parts funny, parts pathetic (not in the looser sense but in the sense it emoted empathy from me), and parts despicable. The ending was sad for me (that was pathetic, for example). But getting to the end was largely amusing, but only if I removed myself from the characters (usually, I read as if I was a fly on the wall, but in this case, I often found myself being a fly on the other side of a window). If I’d been in the house, it would’ve been far too pathetic and far too despicable and hence, too hard to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Death

books_withblooms's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Infidelity, and Mental illness

abbyb23's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Animal death, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Addiction

Overall, it’s an intense book with a significant amount of gore.

abisnail564's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

2.5

Bit too weird for me. The ending brought it together but definitely too long chapters and too many miserable characters!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual content, Death, Animal cruelty, Violence, and Child abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Drug use, and Death of parent

Minor: Abortion and Suicidal thoughts

laurataylor's review against another edition

dark 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Death, Emotional abuse, and Murder

emmas_bookshelf's review against another edition

challenging tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I found this novel super interesting and thought provoking. The author experimented a lot with form and for me, in some places it worked and in some places it didn’t… I think I would have liked more consistency but I can appreciate what she tried to do. I wouldn’t recommend this if you don’t like lit fic (literary fiction), but it does get at a lot of important topics in our society.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Alcohol, Child abuse, Classism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Blood, Death of parent, and Drug use

sjw_creates's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

Loved this book. Stunning prose with a variety of threads that all came together. I can’t believe it was a debut. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child abuse, and Animal cruelty

danaaliyalevinson's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

3.0

I wanted to like this one. It won the National Book Award. And the first 100 pages I was like, this is genius. And then it was all downhill from there. It's about a group of people all living in the same housing project as they each play a part in a violent event. I thought it got lost in its own too clever by half structure, and then the characters wound up being so underdeveloped that I felt nothing as it hurtled toward the conclusion I saw coming from a mile away. Then there's also this thing I see with a lot of modern fiction writers where it feels like literary fiction by way of Wes Anderson. It's very en vogue. And sometimes it works. But here, I thought it was so wrapped up in its need to be quirky and idiosyncratic that I lost the heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Gaslighting, Murder, Sexual assault, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Infidelity, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Suicidal thoughts