Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong

366 reviews

cnealerogers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

micacl's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

anawolken's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Devastatingly beautiful, this book will break your heart while simultaneously healing it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Sexual content, and War

jadamichellemather's review against another edition

slow-paced

2.0

holy shit this book took me so long to get through for how short it was!! this author really likes the sound of their own voice and comes across very pretentious. lots of fake deep poetry that I guess would sound good if I was an edgy 14 year old.  and holy shit (literally) there was way too much talk of poop and “piss” for one singular book. also horrific animal mutilation that came on so suddenly and was so shocking and out of place. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual content, Excrement, Alcohol, and War

Moderate: Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Pregnancy

tumiysabelly's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Medical trauma, Colonisation, and War

robin_hood8's review against another edition

I was out after that nauseating monkey scene, literally why. Can't say I defined any deeper meaning to that degree of animal cruelty, but apparently Vuong can find a deeper meaning in just about anything. And I mean anything. The writing had me rolling my eyes, confused as to what the book was even about, and just plain bored. I had high hopes and I rarely abandon books, but this just wasn't working for me, especially after that horrible monkey scene. This book is not properly labeled or summarized in my opinion, as I had no idea of the violence, animal cruelty, graphic sex, drugs, etc. until I gave up on it and read some reviews. Major trigger warnings for just about everything, I regret wasting my time and money on this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Xenophobia

Moderate: War

wetzelartz's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and War

elle_g's review against another edition

reflective sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Drug use

gabbyolsen's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Hauntingly beautiful writing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War

natafiguu's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring relaxing sad medium-paced

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

5.0

such an amazing read. touches topics like masculinity, internalized and external homophobia, racism, death, it's just an amazing book and you should definitely read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Abortion, and War

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Pregnancy and Deportation