Reviews tagging 'Violence'

The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander

7 reviews

beccaand's review

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Body horror, Terminal illness, Violence, Cancer, and Gore

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

thebetterstory's review

dark medium-paced

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

4.0

A beautiful, angry scream of a book. The prose is unselfconsciously strange and beautiful, with the elephants' perspectives handled with especially gorgeous aplomb.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Terminal illness

Moderate: Classism, Confinement, Animal cruelty, and Violence

Minor: Misogyny, Death of parent, and Animal death

hendrixpants's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Animal cruelty, and Murder

palomees's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Violence, Body horror, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Cancer

bookwyrmknits's review

challenging dark sad medium-paced

2.5

This is a very powerful story, but it is not a happy one nor is it an easy read. I enjoyed very few parts of this book (all the parts I properly enjoyed were the ones narrated by the elephants and telling their stories) — the rest of the book was too raw for me to say I "enjoyed" it. However, it is incredibly well crafted, and it's worth reading for a lesson in how to write a novelette if nothing else.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal death and Violence

Additional CW:

graphic description of radiation poisoning

uss_mary_shelley's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

 A novelette that really captured my heart. Knowing about the main events in this alternate history and them being brought together like this that also felt so kind and important made the short book a lovely read for the day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Violence

pandapuffs's review

dark mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty