Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Lone Women by Victor LaValle

45 reviews

issymaae's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Transphobia, Animal death, and Racism

Minor: Child death and Sexual content

finalfires's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

I really loved the mix of genres in this book, the setting, the mystery and the concept. However, the pace sped up too much in the last 150 or so pages, and I feel like the story wrapped up too neat and perfect. I’d give the first half of the book 5 stars and the second half 2. The first half feels like a really cool, well written feminist western horror. The second half feels a tad fanfiction-y. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Religious bigotry, Emotional abuse, Ableism, Deadnaming, Murder, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Gun violence, Sexism, Alcohol, Colonisation, Racial slurs, Misogyny, Child abuse, Transphobia, Slavery, Pregnancy, Hate crime, Grief, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Child death, Animal death, Racism, and Gore

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

4.0

A wonderful horror novel where the horror is our fear of the unknown and how our fear of difference turns us into monsters. Adelaide and her growing community were so interesting, and I love that we built out from the horror of ~what is in her trunk~ to the horror of a town's leaders being determined to micromanage and turn their community in a homogeneous white horror show.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Blood, Death, Murder, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Animal death

dwdillydally's review

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Gore, Gun violence, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Child death, Racism, and Child abuse

Minor: Grief, Alcohol, Cursing, Pregnancy, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

lyndann's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

The horror element in this book mostly worked for me. I felt unsettled with the mystery of it all. But as things unfolded I was disappointed - I didn't feel close or connected to the characters (maybe that was intentional? they had to be hardened to survive in Montana?). unfortunately I also didn't feel the connections to many of the characters with each other. I also had no sense of how much time had passed, and how Adelaide continued to have food to eat since there isn't much mention of her work on the homestead. Rating is more of a 2.5, somewhere between "it was ok" and "I liked it". 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Transphobia, Racism, and Animal death

booksteader's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Transphobia, Death, Gore, and Gun violence

Moderate: Animal death

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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

5.0

WHAT did I just read?! I LOVE HERRRRRR. Victor Lavalle is everything. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Transphobia, Animal death, and Racism

Minor: Child death and Sexual content

areejx's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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? No

3.5

I'm not sure what I just read. It sure gets you curious and the writing made me finish it; the writer knows how to keep the readers interested. I wasn't able to guess anything that's gonna happen in the story, which is a good thing. Worth the read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

cosmic333's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Racism, and Animal death

Minor: Transphobia and Deadnaming

grimdark_dad's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Animal death, Child death, Classism, Death, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Violence, Alcohol, Slavery, Gore, Racism, Confinement, Gun violence, Blood, and Cursing