Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Pew by Catherine Lacey

7 reviews

biobeetle's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Alcohol, Body shaming, Classism, Colonisation, Confinement, Animal death, and Death

Minor: Dementia and Murder

lidia7's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

i'm very confused by the ending but still i enjoyed my time a lot!

i was left with a lot of questions at the end, very spoiler heavy!! :
 

Is there an actual human sacrifice? What happens to the kids? Are they reading names of kids that were sacrificed? Does Pew sacrifice themselves or do they run away? etc...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry and Xenophobia

Moderate: Hate crime, Transphobia, and Racism

Minor: Confinement, Medical content, Animal death, and Murder

mmefish's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

5.0

Did everyone feel this vacillating, animal loneliness after removing clothes? How could I still be in this thing, answering to its endless needs and betrayals? The room was all white and gray and the air was warm and the air hung on me and I hung in this flesh that all those unknown centuries of blood that had brought into being. I had to tend to this flesh as if it were an honest gift, as if it had all been worth it. Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Racism, Religious bigotry, and Hate crime

brianna_moye's review

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Animal death, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Religious bigotry

rosalind's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I was convinced this would be a 5 star read, but the ending was very much not what I expected or wanted. Still, overall a really thought-provoking fable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Religious bigotry, Racism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Transphobia, Medical content, and Violence

renepierre's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

A genderless and racially ambiguous child of an unknown age is found sleeping on a church pew. The community take it upon them selves to shelter and discover the mysteries of the child they name “pew”. But Pew won’t speak, and with the Forgiveness Festival approaching, the town start to prepare Pew for its events, as well as start to question the timing of their new arrival. Pew is sent to various people that offer and claim to be able to help them, though staying silent, ends up offering their ear to the people that need to talk. This was a great little story and says a lot about gender and race and our need to categorise and classify each other. The writing was simple yet poetic in its descriptions and consisted of some of the most natural sounding and distinct dialogue between its large cast. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Murder, Misogyny, Death, and Animal death

bellari's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Southern gothic, mysterious and thought-provoking

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming, Death, Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Medical content