Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Big Swiss by Jen Beagin

153 reviews

princesstiramisu's review against another edition

funny mysterious sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Stalking, Animal cruelty, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Eating disorder and Mental illness

the_lesbrarian's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Stalking, Suicide, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Addiction, Grief, Violence, Animal death, Death, and Abandonment

learaloveslit's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Blood

Minor: Animal cruelty

finnthehuman217's review against another edition

challenging dark funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book is so dark! Like I didn’t expect the intensity that came from the story. I loved hearing Greta being a hot mess and she is just another example of a messy sapphic being a really compelling protagonist! I gave it 4 stars because the ending wasn’t a HEA more of a tomorrow’s another day. And the way Greta left off with Big Swiss was so open ended 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Suicide, and Violence

ribbenkast's review against another edition

challenging funny reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

This book is the first book that promised me weirdness and actually deliverd. None of the dialogue feels realistic, every single character in this book is deeply flawed, unlikeable and quite frankly invented new ways to be insane. But that's exactly the point. 

The writing is unlike anything I've ever read. Jen Beagin is amazing with language. Some sentences feel like a punch in the face, but it somehow feels good.

I understand that it's a defisive book, it's definitely not everyone's cup of tea and that's okay. Personally I had an amazing time with it and I will ad it to my list of favourites. 

If you think Sheena Patel's 'I'm a fan' and Melissa Broder's 'Milk Fed' were fun but you wanted something more out there, than this is the book for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Rape, Sexual assault, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual violence, Suicide, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, and Violence

The consent between Greta and Big Swiss is kind of dubious the entire time since Greta is obviously lying about who she is.

catch__up's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, and Addiction

Minor: Kidnapping, Abandonment, Suicide attempt, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Eating disorder, Adult/minor relationship, Excrement, Emotional abuse, and Medical content

spectre_warden's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

Don't waste your time. Negative 5 stars.

People who may like this book: 
hate Japanese people, 
have only seen male gaze lesbian porn, 
have never had a healthy relationship with anyone,
hate character development,
still use the 'R' word in 2024, 
and know they need therapy but refuse to go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Homophobia, Xenophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Biphobia, Suicide, Stalking, Animal cruelty, Rape, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Racism, Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Ableism

cigarete_smoke's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Drug use, and Violence

Moderate: Gun violence, Self harm, and Drug abuse

Minor: Eating disorder, Vomit, and Adult/minor relationship

knaappers's review against another edition

3.0

honestly it was so weird but i did like it but i do feel uncomfortable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Stalking, and Animal cruelty

lauraportalupi's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

4.75

I loved listening to the audio book version — usually I’m not a fan of audio books but this one was great. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Stalking, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction