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detoxfive's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Animal death, Murder, and Animal cruelty
yleavy's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
Moderate: Animal cruelty
Minor: Violence
murkyreflections's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty
Moderate: Alcohol
Minor: Suicide
karichan10's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
Minor: Animal cruelty
avenclov's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.25
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Death
Moderate: Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence
Minor: Suicide
chrisljm's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Murder
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Confinement, Alcoholism, Death, Racial slurs, and Violence
Minor: Suicide
andrew_petro's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I have fond memories of listening to an audio book of this on cassette tape. It’d be worth keeping a Walkman around just for this purpose.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d00485e7-31d2-4bec-afc4-795ece409f65
Graphic: Animal cruelty
Moderate: Suicide, Confinement, Torture, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, and Murder
Minor: Slavery
manarnia's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Violence
ysra's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.75
Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Murder
bookwyrmknits's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
The story itself was a bit on the boring side for me, though. There's no promise that the good guys will win, but there's also not really any tension set up about what will happen if they lose. It's mentioned that "things go badly for the losers" but not how, and so there's no real tension involved. I liked the two main characters: the dog Snuff (our narrator) and the cat Graymalk, but many of the others were a bit like background.
Another issue I had with this book was the lack of dialogue tags. This seems like a minor thing, but when you have to back up and read a large chunk of dialogue mentally adding "he said" and "she said" in your head because there are no other clues, it can really break you out of the story.
I guess if the sound of this interests you, it's worth a read, but go in with your expectations weighted a lot heavier on the cozy side instead of the horror side. This is a light read, with Gothic and horror influences perhaps, but very little creepiness of its own.
Moderate: Animal cruelty
Minor: Violence