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befnie's review against another edition
Graphic: Child abuse and Rape
might_be_may's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Confinement
Moderate: Violence, Grief, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Sexual violence, Death, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Murder, Domestic abuse, and Rape
Minor: Stalking
_nessa_'s review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Pregnancy, Violence, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, and Murder
Moderate: Sexism, Rape, and Racism
Minor: Cancer, Alcohol, and Drug use
dazzle_spider_reader_1212's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Death, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Murder, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Misogyny, Child abuse, and Domestic abuse
Moderate: Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Alcoholism, Classism, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Self harm, and Toxic relationship
auteaandtales's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Graphic: Grief, Rape, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death, Misogyny, and Sexual assault
Minor: Fatphobia
sophmcgraw's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Rape, and Child death
Moderate: Gun violence and Stalking
bwwilhelm's review against another edition
Graphic: Rape, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Sexual violence
james1star's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Moderate: Mental illness, Murder, Domestic abuse, Grief, Animal death, Death, Sexual content, and Violence
Minor: Death of parent, Racism, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Bullying, Drug use, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Child death, Child abuse, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Alcoholism
kuroislittle's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
I thought this was a very interesting and thought-provoking book. It really explored the concept of justice and what feeling there is left from human justice. I also thought this was an overall exploration of the feelings we don't always talk about, the murky, hard to pin emotions that can't easily be named. It made me feel empty and hollow, but not from dissatisfaction. I really enjoyed this read. No, the empty hollow feeling came from what they wrote and the characters themselves. When you run after something for so long, to the point that you've lost yourself completely, that's the feeling I feel the author invoked.
I only take a few points off since it lagged at times, but I was really rushing through this read because it gave me a lot of questions.
I also think this was a lot more realistic and I think that added to the emotions. I feel like a lot of times events can take on this almost fable-like quality where it never seems real, but in this book you see a man. Not a "serial killer", but a man who may or may not have feelings and if he does (I read it as he does), then he doesn't know how to use them, what to do about them, and was just unlucky in his life situation. His mother's choices were shocking, but also not really. In some ways, her choices almost seemed too normal, yet those choices still helped create the "monster" who is just as weak and helpless as anyone else. Killing people doesn't put him on mythic levels in this book. To be able to look at a murderer and see how pathetic he is, I think that's powerful and I'm pretty sure that was the author's intention too if you look it up. Americans really glorify serial killers and this does (almost entirely) the opposite.
Highly recommend.
Graphic: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Domestic abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Animal death, Alcoholism, and Murder
misscroft's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Moderate: Murder and Rape