Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

15 reviews

andreaeggoy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny informative sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Death and Alcoholism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, and Animal death

freetobme's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

Moves along. Didn’t find a lot of things to ponder or that I wanted to write down. 

Didn’t seem consistent with Fred’s character or prior statements that he and Alice didn’t wait until they were married, especially considering the era. 

Parts were pretty predictable. Like the annulment.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Pregnancy, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, and Sexual content

bel017's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful informative sad tense fast-paced

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

I loved the characters: such strong, amazing, but realistically drawn women.
The setting too, was so well rendered. What an awful time and place. I'm sure the beauty of the place was supposed to shine through, but the dirt and poverty and hardship, and knowing those kinds of things really happened there and still happen all over the world, and that we all benefit from the misery of others, was tough.

Several times I had to skip a page or two to avoid traumatising content

a woman being beaten, a dog being killed

But reading about the friendship and the women's determination was wonderful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Sexism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Racism, Xenophobia, Bullying, Confinement, and Violence

Minor: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Religious bigotry

fionac326's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, and Sexual content

phantomgecko's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

5.0

It's been said before, but I have so much respect for old-timey women for not murdering every man that spoke to them. The religious bigotry and willful sexist ignorance was pretty accurately written for the "villains" in this novel. So frustrating. And though it didn't happen as often as I wanted, so gratifying when the women in the novel called them out.

As historical fiction, it felt well researched, whether about the traveling library, the mining operation or just how people were. 

I enjoyed the quotes that started each chapter.

One soft complaint is how tidily and pleasantly wrapped up everything was. Happy endings are great, but it was almost too perfect. Though, I suppose our heroines had suffered enough throughout the book to warrant it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Racism, and Animal death