Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi

4 reviews

decie's review

challenging emotional medium-paced

4.5

pick this up when you want raw, heavy, rage-filled poetry. if you're primed for a fantasy plot you'll be disappointed. that's not what the author is doing here. it's better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Miscarriage, Murder, Violence, Grief, Classism, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death, Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Child death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pregnancy, Racism, Police brutality, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug use and Confinement

Minor: Animal death

booksthatburn's review

 It’s told in chunks, creating at feeling of jagged edges and snippets of a story. I liked it at first and then got to the

back-to-back detailed descriptions of birth and a stillbirth/miscarriage

, which is a hard no for me. Even if the rest of the book is fine I need to stop. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Cursing, Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, Gun violence, Violence, Police brutality, Animal death, Death, and Child death

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Violence, Gun violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Miscarriage, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Child death, Animal death, Confinement, and Racial slurs

Minor: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Rape, Domestic abuse, Cancer, and Panic attacks/disorders

Use of slurs is reclaimed. Institutionalization refers to imprisonment/incarceration.

bookishchloe's review

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Police brutality, Racism, Violence, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, and Confinement

Minor: Animal death, Child death, and Hate crime