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Cows

Matthew Stokoe

2.47 AVERAGE

dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: N/A
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I actually have no words to express my feelings but wtf

This book is just as foul as the reviews say it is. If you can’t handle vivid descriptions of people eating feces, raping animals and nailing fetuses to walls, steer away from this one. The writing itself is beautifully descriptive (as beautiful as it can be, considering the subject matter) and for that reason alone I gave it 3 stars. I’ll never read this book again and I will hopefully forget about it altogether (unlikely) but I will read some more books by this author, just none that are quite so extreme.

quergus's review


I'm not tough enough for this book. What a miserable, digusting experience this was.

nicami's review

3.75
dark reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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arthurwjones's review

2.0
fast-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

Straight up gore. Also where the hell did a cow learn a racial slur??

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apsteele1988's review

0.25
dark tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I don't know where I found this book. I wish I hadn't! I kept skimming through, thinking some interesting explanations would turn up. I thought this was a thriller. It's juvenile and grotesque. Perhaps I didn't research enough, but I can safely say this is not the genre for me.
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twingo's review

4.75
dark sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes