Reviews with content warning for Animal cruelty - Stray Dogs

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sharkleggings's review

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challenging dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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rtaire's review

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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visbookish's review

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dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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oldandnewbooksmell's review

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dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

Trigger Warnings: Murder, animal killings, animal abuse

Sophie can’t remember what happened to her lady and she can’t remember why she’s suddenly in this house filled with other dogs. But when she smells her lady’s scarf again, it all comes back to her. Now, she must convince the other dogs and hope they all can survive this.

This novel has been on my radar for a while now and I finally got around to it. I don’t read a lot of horror novels, but I seem to be into horror graphic novels.

The art in this looks kiddish (the illustrators are My Little Pony artists) but this novel is anything but

there’s murder, a skinned dog, and trophied dog heads in a closet

. It’s dark and imagery - I like what they did with the dog’s memory, not 100% sure if that’s true or not, but it worked for this story.

I think this will be a book I will reread, especially around Halloween and such.

I’m going to include more of the harm done to the dogs here so you can decide more if it’s okay for you

Though it’s not directly shown in the panel a dog does get kicked. The action of killing one of the dogs is set behind a shed and not seen, but “heard”. There is a page where a dog’s skinned fur is hanging. Another dog gets covered in glass from a broken window. A dog also gets hit by a car

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