Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler

19 reviews

storybookvisitor's review against another edition

Way too sad. Was crying from the beginning 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty

haleymonkey5000's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

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

pipettesandpages's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Blood

tacochelle's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective 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

3.5

The blurb calls this a eco-thriller, but that's not quite it. It's speculative fiction, a slower paced philosophical novella. It's good, but go in expecting that. It's also detailed about the poaching industry, especially what's left of the animals, so big content warning if that makes you uncomfortable. But the way the subject is approached is really complex, almost too complex for such a short book.

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Content Warnings

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

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

pvp_niki's review

adventurous dark informative reflective 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Gore, Murder, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Vomit and Alcohol

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

ebrooks's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Gore