Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

15 reviews

awilton's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Violence

Minor: Bullying and Gore

pikkumarja's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Evie Wyld on niin taitava kirjoittaja! Tässäkin kirjassa oli raivoa, surua, pelkoa ja vimmaa ja rakastan sitä, kuinka Wyldin naiset ovat aina jollain tavalla sellaisia, että heitä katsotaan kieroon, kummeksuen tai halveksien.

Usean aikatason kerronta toimii, vaikka vähän joutui totuttelemaan siihen alussa. Teksti soljuu lähes kauhunomaisesti eteenpäin! Upea!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual violence, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicide, Vomit, and Death of parent

carlytenille's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

starstuff's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

orlagal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

just22jess22's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Nuanced, mysterious, reflective and challenging- this book kept me guessing and second guessing until the very last page!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Trafficking, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment

alisha247's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault

meg0207's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Rape

Minor: Homophobia

hannahsnerdycorner's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

This isn't the kind of book you can enjoy, appreciate and ponder yes, but enjoy? Not really - at least I didn't.

The premise is good - a woman escaping someone from her past, then her sheep start getting brutally killed - but by the end I had more questions than I did to begin with, and only a few of the questions I had at the beginning were answered. 

I did really like the style/layout: odd chapters are the present, going forwards, and even chapters are Jake's past, going back in time. It was really unique and I liked how it made the story unravel - although the past getting further into the past confused me at some points and I had to keep reminding myself what was happening. 

I'm sure the beast attacking the sheep is a metaphor of some kind - I just wish I understood what for. The book felt kind of clunky, like it didn't all fit together and way it is presented is just long paragraphs and underdeveloped sentences - which again is probably symbolic of Jake's mind but I personally didn't like it.

There isn't really a filter; it's in first-person and she just says whatever she thinks, they don't censor the sex scenes (and they aren't pleasant, but not rape). This book is not for people who are prude.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Sexual content

Minor: Sexual violence

nialiversuch's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying, Racism, and Death of parent