A review by shelfimprovement
The Animals by Christian Kiefer

4.0

This book kind of felt like the weirdly verbose, hypermasculine love child of a Hawthorne novel and a Hemingway novel. It was interesting and compelling but, I actually stopped reading towards the end because

Spoiler

there's a scene in which all of the titular animals are murdered.

That's something I just can't do. I realized what was going to happen and I skimmed the last forty pages or so. I think it's a good book otherwise, an interesting character study that others will surely love.