Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The One by John Marrs

4 reviews

knitdyeread's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Stalking, Violence, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Torture, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy

elviolet's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual harassment, Blood, Violence, Pregnancy, and Death

Moderate: Kidnapping and Miscarriage

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Death of parent, and Abortion

sten89's review against another edition

emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Miscarriage, Mental illness, Suicide attempt, and Abortion

Minor: Pedophilia, Blood, Animal cruelty, and Alcoholism

atlas_shruggs's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.0

 Another decidedly OK book for this year. The plot was decent, I'll give it that, and some of the characters were pretty interesting. The Novum was cool, with the whole DNA Matching, but I just didn't feel particularly invested in any of the characters and their stories. In the beginning I found Christopher's chapters to be the most entertaining, but during the end I was looking forward to Nick's chapters more than anything. I kind of felt like this book was just five books all mashed together, since they didn't really overlap at all, and some of them felt way too different from the other ones. If you made me read one of Jade's chapters and then one of Christopher's and told me they were from the same book, I would think you were lying. I'm not sure if this is because I'm not used to reading adult thrillers, but I had to make an index of the characters and their main plot points so I wouldn't get too confused.
Over all I think I just didn't really mesh with the writing style, so it was pretty average for me.
Also like, all the trigger warnings for this book, jesus. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Medical content, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Emotional abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Infidelity, Homophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders