Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White

263 reviews

agameboi's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fatphobia, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

milo_sneezer's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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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Pretty great read! I enjoy fast paced books, and this one was no disappointment. It's inclusive, thought provoking, and thrilling. It held my attention from start to finish.
The only problem was that some of the deaths in the book are a bit unrealistic, but other than that, I'd definitely recommend this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Transphobia, Police brutality, Murder

Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Death of parent, Dysphoria

Minor: Gun violence, Sexual content

begray's review against another edition

4.0

dark tense

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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This book was very tense the whole way through. It was not even in the vicinity of fucking around. The interactions between like the politics of the setting and the characters themselves as well as the time the book is set do some really interesting things. Uhhhhh additionally the vibe of like

what do you mean I'm autistic, I'm just an unsocialized dog

absolutely took me tf out. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Gore, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Deadnaming, Death, Drug use, Sexual assault, Transphobia, Death of parent, Outing

scramuel058's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Torture, Kidnapping

cactusrackreads's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Holy crap. This book was so good I literally could not out it down. I even brought it to the bathroom with me.

It’s dark and awful, and hopeful all at the same time. Could not recommend more. 

And the main character’s dog is a Black Mouth Cur!!! The best dogs in the world!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Deadnaming

cboddie's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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10th & up

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Deadnaming, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Transphobia, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

rats_and_tats's review against another edition

5.0

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: Complicated

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 This author doesn't miss. That was the most tense book l've read in a WHILE. Thank god it has a good ending, all the books I've read by this guy do but god he really has to run you through the ringer every time. All gas no brakes, read it in maybe eight or nine hours total because I couldn't put it down because there are NO GOOD STOPPING POINTS. This book had me stressing. The first night I read it from 1-7 am!

The autistic rep (main) was great and he is aromantic and gets in a qpr too(end of book)! Also trans (main) and nonbinary rep. Lots of content warnings for gore (and more). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Addiction, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Outing

Minor: Ableism, Fatphobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking

ohmage_resistance's review against another edition

dark emotional tense

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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I generally liked this book. The real strength of it was the representation (the MC being trans, working class from Appalachia, and autistic were the main focus, but he was also aro-spec and

became disfigured

, and the cast of side characters was also pretty diverse). I did like the way that working class issues in Appalachia were talked about. It was never particularly subtle, so know that going in, but I think it works especially well as an intro to these topics that probably not a lot of teens are familiar with. 

I'm reading this for an online bookclub, so I'm excited to see where discussion will go with this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gore, Gun violence, Transphobia, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Outing, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Deadnaming, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Dysphoria

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, Car accident, Death of parent

I might be forgetting stuff. Drug use is painkillers that the MC is on due to injuries that he quits cold turkey and experiences withdrawal from.

gloriabyrd's review against another edition

5.0

dark fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Violence

jlimonata's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Less Appalachian-horror and more intergenerational blood fueds - transcestors and kind of coming-of-age?? Really moving. If you're looking for representation of autism, trans masc coming-out, unapologetically fat, non-binary friends, aromantic discovery... you'll find that here. Mind the content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Deadnaming, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, Outing, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury