Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

30 reviews

kelsee0678's review

animal cruelty in chapter 2 put me in a bad mood 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

annevivliohomme's review against another edition

funny sad tense

3.0

It's so important to talk about consent and sexual assault, and this book discussed the heavy topics in a very honest way. The book manages to be critical while maintaining accessibility. The characters, plot, and especially writing, are a bit too simple for my liking, but I still think it's a solid book. An intriguing contrast is seen between the romance and the humour. Both, in order for me to enjoy, rely on timing and delivery. While the romance felt oddly paced and without enough substance, the few jokes often made me smile even in public. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence and Rape

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

books_of_calypso's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, War, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Physical abuse, Infertility, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Violence

brigid_reads_romance's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I think it’s going to take me a while to sort out how I feel about this book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Genocide, Classism, and Colonisation

Minor: Death of parent

hollysbookadventure's review

Tw dog dies, tw sexual assault [medical]

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Medical trauma

annaki_laila's review against another edition

dark hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual violence, Animal death, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Rape

Minor: Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

anaguana's review against another edition

dark emotional

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, War, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Blood, Alcohol, and Animal death

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Homophobia

almoore5's review

adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Slavery, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gore, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Outing

sammymilfort's review

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

1.0

I’ve had this book on my radar since I started watching booktok and no one told me how drained I would feel after.

I liked the authors writing style and the pacing of elements was good, but this book was traumatic and there was little to no reprieve.

I appreciate the author putting trigger warnings before her story to warn readers, but no one tells you how graphic the SA scenes get. I was enjoying the story in the first part (about 100 pages) but then it got to be too much for me.

I felt like many of the characters and world were underdeveloped and the only time I enjoyed this book was during the romance of Lei and Wren

The plot in itself is vague and kind of predictable, but other than that I kept thinking so many times as I read this how can this be marketed as YA?

The amount of times I was deeply disturbed from this book and had to take multiple breaks was astounding because that is how dark and truly horrible this reading experience was for me.

I know abuse is an important part in stories and highlighting it in stories is sometimes needed and important, but with this it felt cruel and unnecessary

I kept thinking to myself how could a teenager read this without being affected emotionally in some type of way. I know if I was still in my young teens I could not grasp or be able understand this in a way I do now, but this book is trauma based and I think it’s important to note that.

This story had so much potential but instead I am getting a therapy session out of this

Please if you are thinking of reading this book- CHECK TW and be prepared for graphic SA of minors and more

TW: Violence, Blood, Body Horror, Branding, Graphic SA and Rape, non consensual, physical and emotional abuse

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Vomit, Body horror, Gore, Torture, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent

I’ve had this book on my radar since I started watching booktok and no one told me how drained I would feel after. I liked the authors writing style and the pacing of elements was good, but this book was traumatic and there was little to no reprieve. I appreciate the author putting trigger warnings before her story to warn readers, but no one tells you how graphic the SA scenes get. I was enjoying the story in the first part (about 100 pages) but then it got to be too much for me. I felt like many of the characters and world were underdeveloped and the only time I enjoyed this book was during the romance of Lei and Wren The plot in itself is vague and kind of predictable, but other than that I kept thinking so many times as I read this how can this be marketed as YA? The amount of times I was deeply disturbed from this book and had to take multiple breaks was astounding because that is how dark and truly horrible this reading experience was for me. I know abuse is an important part in stories and highlighting it in stories is sometimes needed and important, but with this it felt cruel and unnecessary I kept thinking to myself how could a teenager read this without being affected emotionally in some type of way. I know if I was still in my young teens I could not grasp or be able understand this in a way I do now, but this book is trauma based and I think it’s important to note that. This story had so much potential but instead I am getting a therapy session out of this Please if you are thinking of reading this book- CHECK TW and be prepared for graphic SA of minors and more TW: Violence, Blood, Body Horror, Branding, Graphic SA and Rape, non consensual, physical and emotional abuse

cassie12_21's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The following spoilers are info on the trigger warning r@pe (not in detail) <there is no rape talked about in detail in the book, but it is still discussed alot, the king has paper girls whom he used for sex>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Animal death

Minor: Gore, Infidelity, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Death, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Murder