Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

121 reviews

izypup's review

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

4.75

While there is a lot of content warnings for this book, it’s a lot less graphic than what it seems to be made out to be when I saw reviews. It is primarily an insight on the effects of being desensitized/over-exposed to disturbing media online than about discussing the disturbing media. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Racial slurs

Moderate: Antisemitism, Sexual content, Rape, and Alcohol

Minor: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Suicide, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Violence, Physical abuse, Homophobia, Grief, Alcoholism, Death, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Stalking, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Bullying, Blood, and Racism

lesemauuus's review against another edition

challenging tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Animal death

Moderate: Mental illness

oktoberlyran's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Antisemitism

pamshenanigans's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.5

We Had to Remove This Post dives into the dangers of disturbing content posted in social media not just towards the audience viewing them but also towards the people moderating them. While I wasn’t exactly wowed by the book, I can sort of relate, as someone who works in the digital marketing space. The story is written in a way that the MC, Kayleigh, is talking to a lawyer or representative for the lawsuit the other ex-employees were working on. 

Kayleigh is desperate for a job and needed the money so she signed up to be a content moderator. Moderators are tasked to view disturbing, violent, and offensive content to decide whether to keep this on the platform or not. 

Dangerous job aside, Kayleigh also had to navigate fragile relationships that may or may not be affected by the nature of their job. 

Another disturbing detail about this book is that it happens in real life, albeit not exactly how it happens in the book. There are content moderators around the world tasked to evaluate certain content. Moderators who have experienced long-term exposure to disturbing images and videos and are dealing with anxiety and paranoid thoughts. 

I’m also pretty sure that similar to this book, there are ridiculous nuances that need to be followed, content that may be dangerous but could generate clicks and views as long as they fit a certain absurd standard. A sample from the book: “Death threats against a pedophile are allowed; death threats against a politician are not; a video of a religious zealot blowing themselves up in a daycare center should be removed, on the grounds that it’s a terrorist propaganda, not because it depicts violence or child abuse.” 

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Content Warnings

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

emilyatthelibrary's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Terminal illness, Animal death, Antisemitism, Self harm, Racism, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Body horror, Islamophobia, and Injury/Injury detail

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xashleyxvix's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Racism, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Drug use, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexual content, and Suicide

aliceloyallaleon's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Suicide attempt, Sexual assault, Stalking, Antisemitism, Animal cruelty, Gore, Sexual violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Rape, War, Biphobia, Racism, Sexual content, Suicide, Alcohol, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Body horror, Bullying, Gaslighting, Genocide, Hate crime, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Pedophilia, and Self harm

emcatbee's review

dark fast-paced

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

2.0

I don't really feel like this book made the point it wanted to, and was mostly just upsetting content.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Animal cruelty, Rape, and Antisemitism

trippalli's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

3.0

It's a challenging book full of awful things happening on the Internet and the witness stress of those paid to review flagged posts and the hardships of that job, their coping.... Their fallout of beliefs from flat Earth to denying the Holocaust, the tiers of what most need taken down and what isn't is hard, the hopefully things they see, some described, is really hard to hear. Especially a young girl cutting her face before killing herself.. And how they take the cutting post down and find out about her suicide later because they can't stop thinking about the girl and remember her real name and investigate. Along in the story is the narrator trying to have a relationship with her girlfriend that goes through it's own hardships in parallel to the harshness of this job both women and their friends work at.


It's well written but full of so many trigger flags, most of not all of them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Antisemitism, Biphobia, Child death, Mental illness, Self harm, Body shaming, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, and Suicide

chrishham's review

challenging dark reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Death, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Child death, Racial slurs, and Body shaming

Moderate: Blood, Suicide, Animal death, Self harm, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Sexual assault