Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

6 reviews

lynssss's review against another edition

emotional mysterious relaxing slow-paced

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

3.5

Listened to the audiobook which made it enjoyable to listen to the narrators' voices and accents. But as the book and it's parts are written in first person the accents really stay with the characters who are "narrating" their parts and don't deviate. I enjoyed the end of the book when there are a lot of characters converging in one scene but there was little payoff after these scenes and the action fell rapidly after this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Torture, Hate crime, and Mental illness

Minor: Rape and Lesbophobia

msradiosilence's review against another edition

0.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Abandonment, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Cursing, and Racism

Moderate: Abortion, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Alcoholism

Minor: Pregnancy and Rape

mymorie's review against another edition

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

hardbackednooks's review against another edition

The flap/description of this book ruined the "big reveal" of the first half of the book and the character dynamics made me wildly uncomfortable, which I think was intentional. I just couldn't stand to read more of it. Also saw in some spoilered reviews that one of the characters is later revealed to be trans and their story and transness in general is handled very poorly. Glad I didn't finish it, honestly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Racism, Physical abuse, Animal death, and Transphobia

freshbatchofbooks's review against another edition

No longer vibed with it. I guess this what I get for waiting 7 years to read a book lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Violence and Sexual harassment

running away

malloryfitz's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, and Slavery

Minor: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Transphobia, Abortion, Deadnaming, Drug use, and Sexual assault