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Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

16 reviews

placeholder13's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Dysphoria

Moderate: Mental illness, Alcohol, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Sexual content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Body horror

gondorgirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, and Sexual content

aliyachaudhry's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Drug use, Gore, Cursing, Sexism, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual content, and Excrement

fedelikeslego's review

dark reflective medium-paced

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

1.0

I don’t know how to feel honestly. I had very highly expectations because the premise is amazing. What I found is an extremely boring collage of ideas. There’s so many things that are just randomly put in the plot and then never explained/finished? It’s just frustrating honestly. It feels like Yoder’s publisher just forced her to make the novel longer.

- Who where those strawberry dogs? Was she just loosing her mind? I didn’t get it.

- What was even the point of the Wanda plot? I have no idea.

- The relationship with Nightbitch husband was just so useless, also he changed in a second? Like, so unexpectedly? I got the point of him just being good, but “typically male” the whole time, but it could have been deepen it better? It just sounds so stupid

- Honestly, just the whole dog thing that she randomly set aside.

- her son just disappear? Like, I get the point of her finally being a free human being (again, difficult after motherhood), but like, he just suddenly disappear?


What was I expecting from this book before reading it?
Literally a mother who turned in to a dog, but like, fisically, not only mentally.

What would i have preferred, after reading it?
A short book would have been much better, not a short story, but like a 100-120 pages book, so less then the half of it. 

As a artist myself I loved every single time she talked about art, making art and being an artist. I also loved the performance at the end, made perfect sense with her feelings (Not feeling sure about his husband reactions? You’re eating a rotten cadaver from the ground? Sounds great! I’ll shower you, i’ll love your performance!)

The domestic cat violence was a blow to the heart, I didn’t want to read it.

So… I’m just disappointed, I expected much more in terms of both plot and general message? Let’s objectively look at it, no emotions, how could you not found obvious what she said? The “perfect mother era” finished like decades ago? A lot of people think that and admit that right now, there’s communities, support groups. Literally nothing was revolutionary about it.

Don’t get me wrong, the 1 star is not because “it’s too weird”, I read weirder books, it’s just not good, extremely poor execution.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Gore, Mental illness, and Misogyny

helhas3letters's review

dark funny inspiring mysterious 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: Animal death, Blood, Gore, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol, Child abuse, Death of parent, Drug use, Medical content, and Pregnancy

mickraine's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Gore, Pregnancy, and Sexism

Moderate: Confinement, Bullying, and Body horror

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, and Excrement

thebearnest's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Alcohol

traa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Cursing

Moderate: Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Body horror, and Drug use

Minor: Classism, Misogyny, Child abuse, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Excrement, and Gaslighting

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.5

This is….. weird. Really, really weird. For a while, it’s okay that it’s weird. It’s very (almost obnoxiously) clear that this is a metaphor for matrescence. The loss of identity in motherhood, the struggle to find meaning in your life outside of your child(ren), the silent resentment that builds between partners over the distribution of parental duties… bonus points for the author bringing in mommy group MLM dynamics as this is a REAL problem. In fact, the choice to NEVER name the main characters (the mother/nightbitch, the husband, the boy) is a choice I didn’t love at first but I’ve come to respect by the end, it makes sense. I do think this could be quite good, perhaps, if I was a mother. Unfortunately (or, fortunately, perhaps) this just reminded me of the many, many reasons why I have no interest in bearing a child. Probably could’ve been 4 stars but I do not understand the ending at all. I’ve sat with it for a while and I think this will continue to live in my mind but whatever the author is trying to say with the performance art of it all is lost on me. 
“Nightbitch” is such a great title though. 100/10 for that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Mental illness, Blood, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Misogyny

morecrocs's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, and Blood

Moderate: Alcohol and Pregnancy