Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Notizen zu einer Hinrichtung: Roman by Danya Kukafka

274 reviews

katerina_l's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol

beachsbrooks's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Incredible dive into the history and mind of not only a serial killer on death row, but also the lives and experiences of several women connected to his life. Doesn’t lean heavily on explicit violence, but still contains some absolutely gut-wrenching chapters. No “flat” characters to be found in the main cast. An empathetic and emotional exploration of fate, family, justice, and women’s empowerment, among other themes. Easily a “must read” for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death

sydoodle's review against another edition

4.0

dark reflective tense slow-paced

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this took me so long to finish, but it was good! i fucked w the ending more than i thought i would. got a little bored here and there i fear

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Murder, Abandonment

logsbooklog's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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this was fantastic; it was nauseating, but has such a powerful core to it. it acts as a refutation towards the attention economy. an ode to the mundanity, and to the people that are robbed of that mundanity. the writing of the 3 core women is near-flawless, and their endings are equal parts satisfying and harrowing. my one gripe with the book actually ends up being ansel himself. while his portions of the book are excellent, his characterization ends up a bit flat for me; weirdly, the closest comparison i can draw to this book is bojack horseman, stories of women harmed by a powerful man and having their stories subsumed by them. ansel, though, does not get the depth that bojack does, certainly at least in part intentionally since so much of the book contends with the idea that who he could have been is nothing in the wake of what the women he killed could have been. however, in the absence of his characterization, he ends up being a stereotype in his own right: the unremarkable sociopath. this is a fair assessment of him, but it made questions in the book of how we integrate people who don’t experience love or care for others into society ring hollow when the only example they have is intentionally flat. this is ultimately a minor gripe though, this is a dense complicated book that will stick with me forever and has just so much to mull on.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment

vaykay's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I read this because I watched @newlynova's YouTube reading vlog "until she read a five star book," and wow... she was right. I sobbed, and I slobbered into my pajama shirt.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Police brutality, Car accident

meganmclean's review against another edition

4.0

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse

klandry98's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Medical content, Stalking, Pregnancy

Minor: Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Alcohol

smg67's review against another edition

3.75

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book is not an enjoyable read nor is it fun. It is however a remarkable work of fiction that reflects on the closing hours of a serial killer as he faces his execution. Despite the crimes I felt a sadness for the little boy this killer once was; deserted and alone. This book has left me somewhat melancholy but maybe that isn’t such a bad thing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment

megan_j's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was good. It really pointed out everything that was wrong with our current state of justice and how we view ‘true crime’ and the people who commit it, when our focus should be on the victims and what was taken from them. Kept me gripped 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment

roguetm's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Murder

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Sexual violence