Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

19 reviews

roveronez's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

The begining is very disturbing, then it gets interesting, then it gets WTF??? The story starts stretching indefinitely, it becomes a bit hard to follow some events as the author takes her sweet time to continue some parts left suspended, and then close to the end some very nonsense things take place and I wondered "why put this in the story?". The whole thing with Susie and Ruth and Ray next to the end was just unnecessary and weird and it spoiled the book for me. What started off as a strong yet difficult topic to swallow became a nonsense by the end. I'm really frustrated by how things evolve in the last third of the book. What a shame...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Infidelity, Grief, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

michaelion's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

The only part I didn't like so much

was her coming back to life to have sex. Like I get it I don't wanna die a virgin either but there's more life to live other than sex!

I loved everything else though. No complaints!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, and Dementia

books_and_coffee_vibes's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book was really good and sad at the same time. I really felt the pain of the salmon family and I loved how I could follow their grieving. 

It was very realistic in the sense of not getting any closure. I also really enjoyed the fact that we are viewing it from Susie’s perspective and how she yearns to be with her family and make it right. 

It was a really good book and very sad. I really do feel sorry for what the characters went through but I’m glad they have managed to move on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

lovenecy's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

This book did not end well. There was no happy ending; no pretty little bow to tie everything up. I don’t like books that don’t end well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Murder

sadiaa's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, Stalking, and Murder

tigertheory's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

people being human. loved it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Alcohol

Minor: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

patydenisse's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

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

2.0

You think you’ll love the book, but then you keep reading and ask yourself why is this or that on the book, the it gets sooo bad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, and Sexual harassment

It is not for kids, I would even say teens, there’s explicit sexual content

kryolitee's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.0

I don’t quite know what to say about this book. It was okay, but I didn’t like the writing style. It had me hooked for the first and the last few chapters but I couldn’t tell you what happened in between. In the middle of this book it kind of started to drag, nothing was really happening and I had to force myself to continue reading. 
Overall I would say that this book wasn’t good but it also wasn’t bad. 2 stars. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Pedophilia, Rape, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body horror, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Stalking

sarahsbookss's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

kaylaannsreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death