Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

What We Both Know by Fawn Parker

7 reviews

avisreadsandreads's review

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Dementia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Vomit

jouljet's review

dark emotional reflective slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, Animal death, Child abuse, Suicide, and Pedophilia

spec_tacles's review

challenging dark reflective sad 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: Blood, Grief, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Suicide, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Death, Drug abuse, and Incest

booksnacks's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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, Child abuse, and Animal cruelty

duhnae's review

dark reflective sad 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? Yes

2.5

It’s like getting to see Chekhov’s gun for the entire book, seeing someone take the safety off for a brief moment, put it back on, and then end the story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Suicide, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Incest

jolee's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

I felt totally at the mercy of this book. What We Both Know is disturbing and grotesque in its mundanity and secrecy. The slow unravelling of the narrator felt very reminiscent of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. I couldn't stop reading and I couldn't look away. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Dementia, Incest, and Suicide

Minor: Self harm

mothumn's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes

3.0

Arc Review
I thought this was an interesting and well written look into a very serious and not often touched topic. It was quite slow paced which made it hard to get through but it’s written in a way that really makes you feel like you are in the narrator's head. You bear witness to her every thought and the way her mind works around the things she is finding out and trying to find an answer to it all. I personally felt like the book was very vague on the topic in a way that made it seem like maybe she was possibly making it all up in her head, that maybe was jumping to conclusions about things that she had nothing to back up, which I dont think was the point. I thought it was a very interesting point of view to tell this from, despite my previous criticism I think the point of the book still stands. The closeness of the relationship, between a daughter and a father, was interesting to see her reaction to finding out what he had done. It was definitely a very dark topic to tackle and it was done very respectfully, although I do think that it could have done more and said a solid take on the issue.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Incest, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Rape