Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo

61 reviews

blacksphinx's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• 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

First of all, this is NOT a horror novella and I'm not sure why it keeps winding up on lists of horror stories. It is a sci-fi novella focused around a failing marriage between two academics and a research project where our narrator gets to experience what it's like to be a wolf.

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. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Sexual content, Animal death, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Cursing, Grief, Racism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death

heavster's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

catalyst226's review

dark reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

A darker story than what I've been reading lately about a scientist conducting a study on a pack of wolves. She uses a neural link to observe one in the pack. Cool science fiction with an interesting dose of interpersonal relationships.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Infidelity

misssleepy's review against another edition

challenging dark sad medium-paced

• 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Blood and Animal cruelty

Minor: Toxic relationship

lorinoel's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

kit1475's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

chris_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Medical content, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Violence

Minor: Medical trauma and Blood

chelly_reads's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

karina_dreamsinwords's review

challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

4.0

VR technology that allows you to be inside the head of a wild animal?? How crazy/insane/cool would that be?!? 

I know every pet owner has wondered what their pet is thinking or feeling at one time or another, & this book’s premise gives us a snippet of what such a thing would look like. 

A fascinating novella that may not appeal to all readers, but it worked for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Animal death

saturdayslaughter's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Ouch. A story deep with guilt, (spoilers for the ending)

it felt both awful and true to life how Sean ends up in a better place while the wolves will never recover.

Shit sucks! It was satisfying to get a very depressed mood like this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Toxic relationship