Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty

30 reviews

cstein's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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? No

4.5

In this ambitious and then painfully pointed examination of contemporary struggle, Gunty employs a unique narrative style and extensive knowledge of her spiritual and philosophical forebears to great effect. The late, Dostoevsky-esque monologue chapter was the novel's highlight and a pleasure to parse through. Gunty has a keen eye for phenomena one passively observes but never articulates. However, when it finally arrived, the scene anticipated from page one felt underexamined.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Sexual harassment, Bullying, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Classism, Blood, Mental illness, Cursing, Violence, Sexual assault, and Stalking

Minor: Vomit and Sexual content

aprariedog's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Medical trauma, Cursing, Animal death, Sexual content, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Animal cruelty

nessareadsbooks's review

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

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

lucyatoz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. Welcome to the Rabbit Hutch. 

Well, that was a reading experience I was not expecting at all! The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty is a gut retching novel, with an online obituary writer, an old couple who have a rodent problem, a young mother with a secret and four teenagers who have aged out of state foster care, living as neighbours in a run down, lost cost apartment block. The story is set over the space of a week and accumulates with a violent stabbing. 

I appreciated how the narrative was written and how the story elicited strong emotions as I read it, however I felt that it did not flow exactly and sometimes the plot lacked focus. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Medical content, and Mental illness

lena_kellogg's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense 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: Blood, Sexual content, and Gore

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

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

sophiebv's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual content, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcohol and Blood

crystaldragonst's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Violence, Sexual content, and Blood

mgnraisin's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual violence, and Sexual content