Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White

265 reviews

stardustheart's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Vomit, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Outing

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Body shaming, Confinement, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Car accident, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

adrianas65's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail

finley1's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

mxpk's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

eveningjaye's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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: Yes

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AJW's best book yet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Outing, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Body horror, Drug use, Gun violence, Alcohol

seventhtail's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional inspiring reflective 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Murder, Outing

Moderate: Mental illness, Police brutality, Medical trauma

Minor: Animal death, Transphobia

joensign's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Injury/Injury detail

lydlav's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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: Deadnaming, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Police brutality, Outing

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Blood, Fire/Fire injury

wordnerd99's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

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

moonyreadsbystarlight's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I read 20 pages of this yesterday and the other 320 today. Holy shit! Definitely one you won't want to put down. I am obsessed with the setting and how perfect of a role it played and the fact that such incredible (often overlooked) history was integral to it. The queer rep was great, particularly because of the nuanced conversions that were happening. I also don't think I've ever felt so seen by autistic rep in a fiction book. I really appreciate the overt discussion of politics and community was in this as well. 

I can't beleive it's taken me this long to read Andrew Joseph White but I am so excited that there are at least two others to read (also a little scared if this is the least supernatural and horror of the bunch as some people have said... but scared in a good way!)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Deadnaming, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Torture, Transphobia, Blood, Police brutality, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Mental illness, Pedophilia, Racism, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent

Minor: Rape

Re dogs: the main dog does not get hurt but a different dog is killer brutally before the start of the story and it is discussed several times. While no one is actively dealing with cancer/sickness, there are lots of references to black lung and other illnesses as the result of coal mining