Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

227 reviews

__moongal's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.0

had to DNF 

it was hard to finished. i love an unlikable character but this one was Bad 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

feralbookwife's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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

3.75

A very weird book that I very much enjoyed. If you wanted to like the Midnight Library but didn’t, this is a cheeky look at the Void and what we do to cope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Drug use, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Forced institutionalization, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Grief, Infidelity, Drug abuse, and Mental illness

tacochelle'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

I'm very middle-of-the-road with this one. I think the marketing screwed it over somewhat, in that it advertises a romance with a woman in the middle of a bad breakup and mental shutdown, who gets into a relationship with a merman. Sounds like a good time. What we got is a selfish, nihilistic woman crashing at her sister's, shitting the women in her therapy group, and hating herself when she's not fucking the merman. It's a very explicit book, detailing everything about sex whether it's appealing or not. The main character is an asshole with a lot of mental health issues. You are watching from her perspective as she is actively ruining her life and those around her, right up to the end. It is meant to be uncomfortable. It is well written, just not for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Excrement, Mental illness, Drug abuse, and Animal death

lydiacroft's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

1.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Body shaming

The main character slowly kills her sister's dog through tranquilising him so she can have sex with a merman

whiddengem's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.25

Found out there's more than one way to interpret Pisces.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death and Suicide attempt

Minor: Toxic friendship and Pregnancy

Interspecies sex happens.

whoisrois's review against another edition

dark funny reflective sad 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

not the representation I expected ♓️🤧 good tho

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

cloudyatlas's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

2.5

What did I just read

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

literaryinliverpool's review against another edition

dark funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Suicide, Abandonment, and Addiction

baileynicolee's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

1.0

I was truly so close to DNFing this book. It was such a slog. No one is likeable. The prose are nice enough but this is *not* a romance. It is crude, graphic, full of self-loathing and full of animal abuse. I wish I could unread this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

slimeswords's review against another edition

fast-paced

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

4.25

a gorgeous tale (tail?) exploring  the horrors that come from loving love more than you love yourself, or anything else. i almost stopped reading a few times, first from fatphobia and then from the discomfort of seeing myself in the narrator’s desperation. i’m so glad i kept on. everything sits perfectly balanced on the rocky edge- between self-destruction and growth,  judgment and empathy, fantasy and reality, love and hate. the ending was pitch perfect.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, and Fatphobia