Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae by Graeme Macrae Burnet

10 reviews

junancollins's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-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

5.0

I have never felt so much sympathy for a psychopath. I have also never been so uncomfortable with my own sympathy for a psychopath. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Violence

Moderate: Bullying and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Sexual assault

kstericker's review against another edition

dark 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Sexual violence, Rape, Sexual assault, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Gore, and Grief

writingcaia's review

dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Wow so I read this whole book thinking it was non-fiction. Fuck me! 
(Totally my bad if I had paid more attention to reviews and blurbs I’d have known it before. Now I’ve to find me another non-fic to read this month.)
And, how the hell am I going to rate this?
It was interesting for sure. Gruesome and historically sound (for a know nothing me), but the characterisation, the setting, the familial and societal relationships does resonate with what I’ve come to assume and identify of the times in isolated, poor communities ruled by Lairds (Lords) and their constables in Scotland. Also, my mixed feelings towards the killer and his actions, wether insane or not, from my part were real too.
Ah, crap. I guess I liked it, if it made me feel so much, and honestly the beginning was kind of hard to get into, but afterwards I was quite eager to see where it would lead, and there was a lot of hope for a certain outcome by the end of it.
The court part in what it diverges from the biography was relevant but I did suspect it. 
There’s so much at play here, age, poverty, ambitions or lack of, insanity, lust, vengeance, intellect, premeditation, we know nothing and have to infer everything with the same degree of distance and the same information as if we were a juror. It’s a hard job and I wouldn’t want it. Actually we do have more information as we have the biography, which does make you get more familiar with the young killer.
Definitely a cool play on the narrative part. It fooled me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Blood, Murder, Violence, and Sexual violence

Minor: Incest, Rape, and Suicide

shinysarah28's review

dark reflective sad tense

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Violence

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Rape and Suicide

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Infidelity, Medical content, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Medical trauma, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Dementia, and Rape

a1exander's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Child death, Violence, Murder, and Confinement

Moderate: Blood, Suicide, Alcohol, Stalking, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Death, Sexual violence, Rape, Death of parent, Mental illness, Classism, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Ableism, Abortion, and Incest

feebles640's review against another edition

dark medium-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Mental illness, Gore, Murder, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Alcohol, Suicide, Rape, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Sexual violence

Minor: Child abuse

carmen_cruz's review against another edition

dark sad tense 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

2.0

A very slow read that becomes a page turner near the end. I wished it wasted less time with young roderick being clueless or had developed other, more interesting, characters further. As it is, this is an unreliable but also boring narrator story about an unhinged murderous man.

I was more taken by

his sister suicide

than I was his whole story

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Torture and Child abuse

Minor: Animal death

alisonannk's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Child death, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Classism, Rape, and Suicide

Minor: Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Confinement, Grief, Incest, and Sexual harassment

kellyinbookland's review

dark informative tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Child death, and Animal death