Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

36 reviews

sapphicpenguin's review

dark funny mysterious

5.0

I didn't love every single moment, but this is a damn good book. Reads like one of those short stories from English class that you think about for the rest of your life, but longer and funnier. Felt like Kafka mixed with Neil Gaiman mixed with (cis) womanhood/motherhood anger.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Body horror, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Magical realism–typical unreality vibes. Discussions of childbirth.

Explicit description of the main character murdering her cat out of anger. Toddler son witnesses many acts of strangeness/animal cruelty and experiences occasional neglect/endangerment. He is portrayed as generally happy, and is never actually physically hurt. Body horror is descriptions of human-to-animal transformations.

yafi's review

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Sexual content, Gore, Misogyny, Self harm, Blood, and Child abuse

applejuiceinabox's review

dark funny inspiring mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Grief, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Violence, Blood, Body horror, and Gore

addythebookbat's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Gore, Cannibalism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Death

rumay's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Abandonment and Pregnancy

fedelikeslego's review against another edition

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

cjcrawfish's review

challenging dark funny mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Body horror and Blood

Minor: Misogyny, Sexual content, and Fatphobia

mickraine's review

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

emory's review

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Extremely graphic and upsetting depiction of the murder of a household pet at the end of the book's second part

traa's review

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