Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Off to the Races by Elsie Silver

8 reviews

irisvdn's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Cursing, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Drug use, and Alcohol

Minor: Misogyny and Sexism

autumnwitch14's review

funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Sexism, Death of parent, and Medical content

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Drug use, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Cancer, Gaslighting, and Death

kell_yeah_reads's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

per my spreadsheet:

i think i need to read read it.

spice 🌶  - a 4 🌶  spicy (romance.io scale)
length - just right
reading speed - read in 2 days
did it make me cry? - not this time

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Grief, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use, Violence, and Infidelity

hapalyn's review

funny lighthearted 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? No

3.75

This book wasn't my absolute favorite by Elsie, but I think that this series will still be fun to read through. Vaughn was just not my favorite mmc, and Billie was cool (but she felt off in the 2nd half of the book, like a different person). 

I think the 3rd act breakup was just... annoying I guess. I think if the book was longer, there would've been more time to realistically build the characters' relationship up. I just didn't feel like we had enough scenes of them together (especially any with a lot of tension) to believe their relationship was real. Like, yeah, they had sex, they argued, blah blah blah; but, I didn't feel like they actually had any reason to like each other more than they would a different random person?

 I think reading Chestnut Springs before this series wasn't a great idea, but regardless I did have fun reading the book and will continue on with the series. (I'm interested to see Stefan's character arc and redemption!!) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Excrement

Minor: Death of parent and Animal cruelty

mcfoody's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Animal cruelty, Drug use, and Panic attacks/disorders

dianaschmidty's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Sexism

Minor: Animal cruelty and Infidelity

apolen's review

emotional lighthearted

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Ableism, Sexual content, and Cursing

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Death, Infidelity, and Death of parent

andeng's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Misogyny, Death, Grief, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Animal cruelty