Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

12 reviews

mlovesbooks's review

emotional mysterious reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Dysphoria, and Gun violence

grundmanisk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Great novella

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Gun violence

rambles's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Animal death, Murder, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Vomit

immoralrite's review

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Trafficking, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Murder, Blood, and Gun violence

jalexpulliamkepler's review against another edition

challenging reflective 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? Yes

4.75

clever and moving. Naylor has crafted a story of interesting, sympathetic characters that truly examines so many relevant themes. My only complaint is that the prose can be a touch pretentious.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Death of parent, Animal death, Blood, Gore, and Gun violence

Moderate: Classism

Minor: Murder

feralratgirl's review

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

A thought-provoking novella about climate-change, capitalist greed,  and uploading one’s consciousness into a mammoth. 

Nayler’s work as a foreign service officer and research into poaching shine through. In under 200 pages, he takes the reader through the many perspectives of those whose lives are touched by ivory poaching. The scientists, the buyers, the poachers, and some who are in between. 

I read the novella for book club and finished in one sitting. I thoroughly enjoyed it and plan to read more of Nayler’s work.

Also, Damira should have stomped Anthony into a pulp!!!

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Death, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

prynne31's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I would have liked a different last chapter.

Also, some of the themes are much more complex than presented. However, the emotions and questions this book raises are important to ignite curiosity on those topics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Animal death

Moderate: Violence, Death of parent, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol and Colonisation

Ivory extraction, ivory trade

adhesivedolphin's review against another edition

dark informative sad 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

3.5

I thought this was such an interesting concept and had to pick it up. It did a great job telling its story in a focused narrative that only took about 4 hours to get through. I particularly enjoyed the change in Damira over time, and how passionate she was about her cause. The themes of greed, power, environmentalism and memory and poignant and distressing. On the negative, I found the narrator for Vladimir very jarring. And while the narrative was rich, it was at time hard to follow. Overall, it was a solid read, unlike anything I've read before, but not a favourite. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Gore, Murder, Blood, Violence, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Gun violence

ezwolf's review

dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.0

If I had a nickel for every time I read a book about a scientist who studied an animal so passionately that when given the chance, they transported their consciousness into said animal in the name of science and extinction, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it’s happened twice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gun violence, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Body horror, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, and Death

Minor: Vomit and Colonisation

skbat's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

5.0

Intense, layered explorations of human greed, memory, and resurrection. Made me feel feelings I didn't want to feel. 5 stars and I kinda hate it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Animal death, Death, Murder, Violence, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Grief, Gun violence, and Alcoholism