Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Rouge by Mona Awad

11 reviews

applejuiceinabox's review

challenging dark inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, and Mental illness

grrrcait's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Body horror, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Animal death

linneak's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Medical content, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Blood, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Gaslighting, Addiction, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Body shaming

glassflowrr's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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? It's complicated

5.0

Another absolute masterpiece from Mona Awad. I love how dreamy and confusing it feels at times, and how well I'm able to feel Mirabelle's almost hypnotized state through the prose. The climax had me biting my nails and crying. Awad could write a book about a sentient shampoo bottle and I'd love it. It is definitely a challenging read if you aren't used to Awad's fever dream prose but I highly recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Animal death

Moderate: Racism and Alcohol

Minor: Body horror, Gore, Classism, Blood, and Body shaming

aliyachaudhry's review

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.0

need to read mona awad's review of top gun: maverick

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Bullying, Blood, Body shaming, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Racism

booksandteatime's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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, Racism, Death of parent, and Grief

chasingpages1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, and Body horror

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

medini_l's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Abandonment, Addiction, Body shaming, Bullying, Death of parent, Grief, Suicide, and Animal death

sarasreading's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• 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

4.5

I love how Mona Awad crafts such complex themes and narratives, weaving many ideas and nuance into an ABSOLUTELY unhinged wild ride of a book. I devoured this (pun intended). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Grief

Moderate: Abandonment

booksbeyondthebinary's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Racism, and Animal death

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, and Religious bigotry