Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

3 reviews

fatbaby609's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Diverse cast of characters: No

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i don’t know that this succeeded in exactly every single thing it tried to accomplish, but it was so ambitious and original and invigorating that i don’t think i really mind

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Classism

Moderate: War

kurumipanda's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Colonisation, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal cruelty, Sexual content, Blood

sarah984's review against another edition

3.0

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is kind of a conflicting one for me to review because I liked the overall story but I didn't really like the book. The setting was interesting, sort of an arctic-themed cyberpunk city run by AI with a few rich human "stakeholders", where organized crime is everywhere and people are on the streets losing their minds to an illness called the breaks that no one in power will deal with because of optics. The story of a strange woman and her entourage of animals sweeping in to turn this upside down is compelling.

I just really didn't like the writing. A few of the plot twists were things that annoy me in any narrative, the language is pretentious and weird, and the author uses the word orgasmic to describe way too many things. It's not inherently a bad book, but it definitely didn't work for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Religious bigotry

Moderate: Ableism, Genocide, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content

Minor: Vomit

My rape tag is for a scene where a character feels pressured into sex but technically consents (and sees themselves as having consented later). The perpetrator in this scene also transmits a fatal sexually transmitted infection to the victim without prior disclosure.