Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

She's Too Pretty to Burn by Wendy Heard

36 reviews

ghostlyprince's review

dark tense 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Child abuse, Classism, Murder, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Child death

Moderate: Confinement and Medical content

Minor: Lesbophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Car accident

althebookworm's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Mass/school shootings, and Gun violence

hermithebs's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Kidnapping, and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Animal death

danajoy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Car accident, and Confinement

matheo's review

dark emotional mysterious tense

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Body horror, Stalking, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Mass/school shootings

Minor: Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Addiction, and Cursing

maddie____'s review

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Cursing, Kidnapping, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Animal death

linoone's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

A plot I think would be served better if all the characters were aged up a few years but altogether I thought it was neatly plotted, easy enough to read. However, the last few chapters made me roll my eyes a little

as Nico went from regular murderer to flamboyant over-the-top supervillain. A little silly for my tastes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship

Moderate: Murder and Animal death

Parent kicking out child

tahsintries's review

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

abby_shupe's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

50/50. I hated half of the parts and liked the other half but the entire time my head was spinning asking myself what the f*ck was going on. The book took so long to get started for being a fast paced book and the plot finally unfolds around the 52% mark. After that it’s a total whirlwind-and I decided I’m not a fan of thriller books. The book had me gasping and wanting more, especially when there was literally 30 pages left and a whole series of events went unexplained and left me with no details. I guess that’s the point of a thriller-an ending up for interpretation ? And please check TWs before reading this, so much went down! Also, I found the relationship between Mick and Veronica to be so extremely toxic I put the book down so often because of it. The only character I really liked was probably Claudia, the only person who overall acted rationally. Everyone in this book I would describe as morally grey, and not likable but i feel like this was purposeful, and the author wants the reader to acknowledge this. I would give this book 1.5/1 star if it wasn’t so exciting to read, but because it took me on a rollercoaster of emotions I think the 2.5 stars is deserved. I also gave it an extra .5 star because the author used the book title in the book, and I love when authors do that, it fit well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Cursing

Minor: Homophobia

quinn_eats_rocks's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Although She's too Pretty to Burn is at times, extremely predictable, I found it that there was some sort of plot twist added onto the guessable part. As I haven't read The Picture of Dorian Gray (the book that this is based upon) I'm not sure how it adds up in similarities, but I can see the general premise being similar. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting and Violence

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Animal death, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, and Grief