Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Lives of the Monster Dogs by Kirsten Bakis

2 reviews

slanderoid's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Mental illness, Animal death, Murder, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, and Suicide

aredridel's review

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

2.25

It's a bizarre book, bizarrely paced, half epistolary and half first person memoir. All tied up in uncomfortable Prussian scientism, and rather dark philosophically.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mass/school shootings

Moderate: Slavery, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Suicide, War, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Mental illness, Abandonment, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Sexual content, Gore, Rape, Grief, Genocide, and Excrement