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Cujo by Stephen King

28 reviews

seeker42's review

dark tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Violence, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Child death, and Child abuse

Minor: Murder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Cursing

kreglow's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Animal death, Grief, Cursing, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Stalking, Child death, Classism, Death, Gore, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders

patrickcline279's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.25

If you like Pet Semetary you'll like Cujo. It's quite underrated I think, not sure why no one talks about this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death

Moderate: Domestic abuse

idaida's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape

nadia's review against another edition

dark tense 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

4.0

I wasn't sure how much I was going to get into a book about a monster dog, or how scared I'd feel while reading it, but I got into it and I did feel scared, tense, and on edge at various points! Again, also fun to see the small advantages to my King chronological read with this one! A solid book, with an unsurprising emotional tug, that goes a lot deeper than the obvious scary parts!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Body horror, and Child death

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape

hue's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

2.0

If this would've been written entirely (or mostly at least) in Cujo's point of view, this could've been a four star book. But the unnecessary, hideously boring jarring affairs, childhood memories and what other garbage (like Steve Kemp's existence) that didn't further the plot and didn't grow on the characters made this such a drag to read. The amount of characters with no relevance and still five pages worth of character background made me want to quit the story. Typical Stephen King.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Excrement, Gore, Child death, Domestic abuse, Animal death, and Body horror

greenrequiem's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Child death, Domestic abuse, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Strong warning if you are an animal lover

the dog dies, and we see the story from the dog's perspective at times as he get sicker

ameliaflint's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Really good! I wasn’t expecting this to be as literary as it was - it had all the hallmarks of a typical pulpy horror (which I wouldn’t mind) but it was more a story of human life than anything. While it was my first introduction to King’s work, I understand that it is a bit of an outlier in its humanness. It makes the book even sweeter that it’s a one-off. Very good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Gore, Animal death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape

thebookvincicode's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

Why the use of the n-word? And why did the cop think of his seventh grade daughter’s breasts coming in as he was mauled to death by a rabid dog?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, and Animal death

hk848's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Blood, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Death, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Vomit, Excrement, Violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse