Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara

72 reviews

rexpostfacto's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

If ever a content warning was needed for a book, it's this one. Beautiful writing paired with a haunting and vile faux memoir tragically based on some true events. 

The epilogue and post script literally had me holding back gags and left me feeling nauseated. 

I highly recommend the audiobook; being able to really hear Ronald's notes and emphasis on things makes all the difference imo.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Child abuse, Racism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Dementia, Death, Cultural appropriation, and Rape

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Sexism, Suicide, and Medical content

procopio's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Animal death, and Child abuse

romewithlove's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Animal cruelty, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Deadnaming

allegrayr00's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Child abuse, Colonisation, Rape, Sexual assault, Animal death, and Incest

Moderate: Gaslighting, Confinement, and Misogyny

lolo_readsbooks's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

wowweee wow. she sure does love writing about unlikeable gay pedophiles. strong themes about colonialism, imperialism, western “objectivity”, and consumerism. just like, the end reallllly went there. 

norton is deeply unlikeable and the post-script was hard to get through. the last fifty pages were ill paced. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Pedophilia, Rape, Animal cruelty, and Sexual violence

partybonus's review

challenging sad medium-paced

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

I do notttt recommend! It is a trigger warning minefield and full of really wretched moments. The lush rainforest backdrop and descriptions of the scenery belong in a travel guide which is what I think this writer was before they became a writer. I wish I hadn’t read it. It haunted me and I am not interested in shockingly violent and horrendous situations in books anymore, especially when there is zero reason for it. Stay away! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Classism, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Rape, Trafficking, Animal death, Colonisation, Incest, Body horror, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Xenophobia

justagirl22's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

4 stars because Hanya is such a great story teller and reading her books pushes my boundaries. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Violence, Physical abuse, Animal death, and Toxic relationship

Content warning & light spoiler: Toxic relationship - described near the end of the book, physics abuse. Violence - towards animals in terms of hunting and (now deemed) unethical science practices. Rape & Adult/minor relationships Pages 212 - (onward, sporadically) allusions, not specifically stated, of gang rape

*ritual of U’ivuan culture to initial a young boy to sex, all men in the tribe older than the boy would penetrate the boy to “show him how to have sex”.

Pages 461-467 “post script” details sexual assault on a minor (this is the end of the book, easy to skip this section)

moonpeach's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

thismustbemyexit's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

that ending is insane.  i figured as much, but the simplicity and—violence?—with which it was delivered shocked me. 

was also interesting to read this after ‘to paradise’ bc many of the themes (and characters) are strongly reminiscent of one another, though yanagihara’s writing and flow has much improved. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Minor: Incest, Pedophilia, and Rape

sammysloth's review

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Animal cruelty, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Child abuse

Moderate: Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Genocide, Sexual assault, Abandonment, and Sexual violence