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Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment
Even though the video was indicative as to what was most likely going to happen post book, I still was sort of left dissatisfied when he never jumped in. I get the appeal of leaving an open ending of sorts, like “will he or won’t he? We all know he did” but yeah idk just wish it was slightly longer?
pretty bad ass about the girlfriends feet getting ripped off tho lmaoooo
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood
Moderate: Alcoholism
Minor: Death
Graphic: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence
Minor: Animal death, Excrement
Graphic: Addiction, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Violence
Minor: Animal death
Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Ableism, Drug use, Eating disorder, Excrement, Vomit, Car accident, Suicide attempt
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Excrement, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Drug use, Blood, Vomit, Grief
Minor: Confinement
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt
Minor: Gun violence, Homophobia, Excrement, Cannibalism, Car accident
Moderate: Animal death
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail
Wow, the characters. Okay. Phew! Nakota is positively repellant. She uses people. She manipulates people. In fact, I daresay she does not bother to interact with anyone unless she is using and manipulating them. She knows Nicholas loves her and uses that to twist him around her little finger. She’s calculatedly vicious. As for Nicholas, he isn’t Mr. Perfect himself. He loves Nakota in his own weird way, mostly by letting her walk all over him. He spends most of his time drunk. If Nakota had been the point of view character, she would have been too unlikable and obnoxious. Nicholas is perfect as the PoV character, because while he’s no angel, he’s better enough to be engaging despite (or maybe because of) his flaws. Both characters constantly grate against one another. It galls Nakota that Nicholas is transforming when she is not. Nearly all of the characters in here are deeply flawed people.
The flow of the narrative–told from Nicholas’s point of view–is somewhat stream-of-consciousness-like. There’s a lot of exploration of Nicholas’s thoughts and ruminations, and yet I wasn’t bored at all once I got into the story. I never felt like we were retreading too much ground, or that there wasn’t a need for it, or that it slowed things down. Nicholas’s thoughts made things more interesting instead of less.
My only (totally minor) objection is that I wanted just a little bit more at the end. I felt like it ended a bit abruptly. The ending was still very good; I just felt it wasn’t quite as amazing as the rest of the book.
Content note: Sex, animal harm/death, suicidality, and the amount of violence and gore you can expect from pretty much any horror novel.
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Blood