Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

101 reviews

tallulahlucy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

The dog dies

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Genocide, Death of parent, Animal death, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Child death, War, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Religious bigotry, Animal cruelty, Vomit, Murder, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Mental illness, Grief, and Gaslighting

brookebatesratesbooks's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Murder, and Cursing

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

fadingmoths's review

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? No

1.75

1.75⭐️ 

WOW, OKAY. how do I even start? This is more of a rant than an actual review but here we go?

In all honesty, this wasn’t the worst read of my life. If you want to read it, I won’t stop you. The concept was intriguing, but was executed poorly. After the first few chapters it felt super repetitive. I don’t leave a series unfinished, so I will be reading the next 2 books, but what do you even do from now on? 

Why do I hate this book? It’s slow-paced, the MC is horribly unlikeable (seriously Todd from the first page you gave me the ick), it had cheap grasps at getting the reader to feel something, finally topped off with simple uninteresting “plot twists” every other chapter (mainly a weird amount of revival of all the nasty characters)

Every single one of those deaths were so cheap AND SO SO POINTLESS! I originally was going to give this a 3.5 but those later chapters? Made me ball my eyes out and that rating slowly went lower and lower the more I read. 

Anyway, I hope Todd gets attacked by a crocodile next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Misogyny

Moderate: Death, War, and Death of parent

annaliseeee's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Grief, Death of parent, Blood, and Violence

biancahartley's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Animal death

cassiecraycray's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Really enjoyed this book. The entire book kept me on the edge of my seat, hoping for the best for Todd and Viola, trying to sort through the information we were given and figure out what is the truth and what were the lies. 
I liked how it was written, it was challenging at times understanding some of the words but the misspellings give Todd a distinctly different dialect than Viola. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child abuse, Death of parent, Animal death, and Blood

smallspoonbigfork's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

m_harbaugh's review

adventurous emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Misogyny

mplj's review against another edition

Stopped reading because something happened that was just one step too far, I need a happier book

the dog died

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Animal cruelty

winterwolf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Grief, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Gore, Religious bigotry, Injury/Injury detail, Stalking, and Violence