Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White

265 reviews

clumsykay5's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional inspiring fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Deadnaming, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

frank_alexander1129's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Some of the best trans masc representation I’ve ever had the privilege to read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Toxic friendship

Blood feud emphasis on the blood, contains a lot of police brutality and corruption

fil_harmonica's review against another edition

3.0

dark tense medium-paced

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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It goes a different direction from AJW's previous books. While this is probably more true to him, and I appreciate the diversity and the fresh subject matter, I just didn't really like it in comparison to his other books. As a lifelong city-folk, I appreciated his depiction of a world I really don't relate to with rural Appalachian and how he humanizes both the good and the bad. Less horrific than I expected. While it is supernatural in the sense that Miles sees the ghost of an ancestor, it didn't feel as essential to the plot. The true horror was society, how

a blood feud would play out for so long and how the Davies' influence was so insidious. How it was clearly about to continue in the son.

While frightening, wouldn't really call it horror.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Transphobia

Minor: Alcoholism, Alcohol

ghcstbats's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Transphobia, Blood, Car accident

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Vomit, Police brutality

zombiezami's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective tense slow-paced

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I cannot say enough good things about this book. It is amazing. Not just amazing for YA. Simply amazing. I really hope that this book gets into the hands of all who can relate to it, as well as to those who can't, because it is that life-altering/life-saving. The work that went into this is apparent: the historical research, the family research, the research into autism. The book's plot was organized very well and allowed each of these elements to shine. I'm so impressed by this! I just finished the audiobook a few minutes ago, and I have chills.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Alcohol

Minor: Incest, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, War

alex_again's review against another edition

5.0

dark hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Love love LOVE when characters get mutilated by the plot. Physical altercation? Irreversible physical consequences! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Outing, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Cursing, Deadnaming, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Car accident

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Vomit, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

Trigger warning: not graphic gore of, but off page loss of an eye.

pawtory's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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This book y'all. One of the roughest but most relevant I've read. Not for the faint of heart but I think would benefit most people to read (felt the same about The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by the same author, but that one is historical-paranormal and this is contemporary with only a minor bend to paranormal). Technically YA but it really doesn't feel like YA.

The way it played out might have been somewhat predictable, but still felt it was executed well. Class/unions, identity/gender, family ties, expectations, autism/neurodivergence, Appalachia, the opioid epidemic, acab, generational violence... Js I think you should add it to your reading list. The narration was well done too (that's my preferred format but it was ... Visceral, made me incredibly uncomfortable at points).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Transphobia, Blood

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent

nerdy_teddi's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Dysphoria, Classism

aidenm's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

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HOLY FUCK this was so good. Yknow that meme that’s like “I need to talk to a gay person” that’s me rn but rural trans people. There is fire in my veins

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Transphobia, Police brutality, Car accident

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death

maks's review against another edition

5.0

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andrew joseph white’s best one yet. insanely good, insanely dark for a ya novel - i’m an adult and still gritted my teeth through a lot of it. please read it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Police brutality, Murder

Moderate: Torture, Transphobia, Kidnapping

Minor: Ableism