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bwoo's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Animal death, Sexual content, and Violence
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Racism and Vomit
lizardgod's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Alcoholism
Minor: Cursing and Racism
rainbowbrarian's review against another edition
Add to that Sean's casual racism, lack of empathy, and massive refusal to give a single shit about anything but what she wants?
I hate books with miserable queer protagonists and I don't think it's progress to be all "Oh look how far we've come, queers can be miserable like everyone else". If that's something you need to find queer people relatable, you're beyond missing the point.
Graphic: Racism, Sexual content, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Abandonment
aromarrie's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
the thing i love the most about the story is that it really felt like it was written in dual pov….you didn’t just get sean’s perspective, but also the wolf that’s so pivotal to this research study that’s being done.
the combination of invasive technology and vivid descriptions of the cold & barren woods through another species’ eyes added to the surreal atmosphere, i feel.
Graphic: Animal death, Violence, and Grief
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Infidelity and Sexism
scifi_rat's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Sexism and Vomit
mar's review
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.5
also, very confused as to why this book is labelled as horror - it's unsettling in the way a nonfiction book about climate change is unsettling, but i really wouldn't call it horror. unless you're creeped out by a failing marriage ig
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual content
Moderate: Gore, Blood, and Medical content
Minor: Racism and Sexism
blacksphinx's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Despite not being horror, I think if you liked Our Wives Under The Sea you might like this. It's a different take on "failing sapphic marriage," if you can handle a narrator who is a self-centered racist dick.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, and Medical content
Moderate: Cursing, Racism, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Grief
Minor: Death
depmythmoon's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I believe this book aims to parallel what COVID did to us as a society, how it “chemically altered” our brains… with a sci-fi wolfy take. Much like we all isolated due to the pandemic and developed our obsessions with particular media, hobbies, or entertainers, this novella shows how a neuroscientist, Sean, turned to an obsession with wolves in her times of loneliness. (She wasn’t really alone though; she was just actively choosing work over her wife, Riya, who was growing tired with her one-sided support.) I feel like this aimed to show the dramatized outcome of how these obsessions and parasocial relationships that some of us developed during our COVID isolation caused our real life relationships to suffer. Then again, I’m reaching at straws here because the ending still left me confused. Someone smarter than me would have to figure that one out. I don’t believe I was the intended audience, honestly.
Sean is a selfish character whose words say one thing while her actions say another. She just cannot take accountability for her actions to save her life. This woman supposedly loves her wife and wants to mend their relationship, but each time Riya holds out an olive branch, Sean finds some way to slap it back in her face. She’s so obsessed with feeling what her wolf subject, Kate, feels and the intimacy of their supposed “connection” that she neglects the very real connection to her wife. She even has a therapist telling her that her priorities aren’t in order, and while she says she understands she has to fix things, she goes right back to obsessing over work again. I enjoyed how the writer was able to portray Sean as selfish, all the while not having the protagonist be aware of that character flaw herself.
Moderate: Toxic relationship
Minor: Mental illness and Sexual content
israelthesecond's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content
chris_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Violence, and Medical content
Minor: Blood and Medical trauma