Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

アーモンド by Won-pyung Sohn

243 reviews

limabeans's review against another edition

2.5

hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I just didn’t click with Almond overall. Maybe I should have been more prepared to not feel any emotions or attachments to this story, considering Yunjae literally can not harvest feelings. I guess I liked Gon and the format of the book.

That’s basically it.

Ending was pretty bad, but I still feel like I had a decent time reading this story. It very was short, so it didn’t drag.

 I don’t know what else to say. 

 2.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Animal cruelty

totorii's review against another edition

5.0

emotional sad fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Grief

bella_cavicchi's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective fast-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

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I picked up ALMOND because of its gorgeous cover. The story inside is equally stunning — a lovely / thoughtful / tender gem on growing up. I also love the thread on love and fear — and how our displays of both emotions are in tandem more often than we think. 

 

And kudos to Sandy Joosun Lee for translating it with such evident care! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death

leni's review against another edition

2.0

fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Bullying

death of a

grandmother

at the beginning (pretty graphic - knife, hammer), mc's own near death experience at the end, mc "tortures" a butterfly

whysoseriousnat's review against another edition

5.0

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Quick to read,  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Hate crime, Blood, Grief

oliii's review against another edition

3.75

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

yelloweyedbeta's review against another edition

3.5

emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Violence

lucyshucy's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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clutched my pearls for the last 20 pages

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Mental illness, Violence, Murder

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Medical content

valerie23's review against another edition

4.0

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

mon11257's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal cruelty