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Pod by Laline Paull

17 reviews

miaaa_lenaaa's review against another edition

emotional informative medium-paced

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

2.0

Book summary!
Dolphin fan fic
Dolphin fan fic
Fish fan fic
Dolphin fan fic
Fish fan fic
The devastating effect of humans on the ocean
Fish fan fic
Dolphin fan fic

Good god i did not need to read this much about fish and dolphins having sex not to mention this felt clumsily written and their actions felt disjointed, 
Also please stop referring to large groups of fish/ cetaceans as people

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

berodatheelf's review against another edition

emotional informative sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

Informative and well researched but absolutely brutal, Laulie Paull leaves no punches. The story weaves humans impact on the environment with feminism but is told uniquely from the POV of various aquatic creatures (mostly dolphins). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

laurenbastian's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

A terrifying and tragic story that shows us exactly the harm we do to our neighbors on this planet. The story is about dolphins and the complex and sometimes horrifying power dynamics and social structures of the ocean. But it is also about how, amidst and underpinning it all, humans have pushed these aquatic communities to annihilation. This is a book of climate grief that does not shy away from gore and violence.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug use, Genocide, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

emilyseebold's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Ableism, Transphobia, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, and Fire/Fire injury

aileen_macalister's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious sad 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? Yes

3.75

How would I describe this book to someone in one sentence?

Dolphin fanfic with an important underlying message and an overtone of sex and violence

SPOILERS FROM THIS POINT 

The writing itself is so good! And it's such an interesting subject to cover, how mankind's actions have affected the balance of nature, but it was so hard to get past the amount of times this book describes in detail dolphin sex

It's the circle of life and all that but it was so distracting from the message of the book. The themes of the book are interlaced

1. Eco-fiction/Climate change
2. Feminism

It was an interesting take and one I'll be mulling over for a long time I'm sure. About half way through it I stopped thinking about these dolphins as dolphins and more an ancient alien race, stop me before I fall into conspiracy 

The main character is "not like other girls" and when she leaves the safety of her pod because she has internalided her own flaws she is cap ured and then horribly abused on a number of occasions by other dolphins from another pod but she seems to just gloss over this fact. She becomes more comfortable and at home with her captures than she was at home which was very jarring.

All together a weird experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexual content, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

ank3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

miada001's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

gorgeous perfect inspiring amazing creative well-researched and enthralling. one part (the wrass story) seemed rushed and unclear but the main characters’ journeys were deeply affecting and well done. another banger from Paull that takes you deep into a world you didn’t know you wanted to be in

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

paukinra's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

ainoiisa's review against another edition

dark emotional sad

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

bookbinbaby's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This is a story of our times, it will haunt and inspire in equal measure, it felt like 'Game of Thrones' meets 'Seaspiracy' for me. Brutal. Reflective. Memorable. The characters are each very interesting in how they are individually and where they interact with each other. Holds a mirror up to how we take and overpower the natural world and don't appreciate the fine balance of mother Earth and are selfish as a race and unnecessarily cruel. Laline Paull and how she is able to draw readers in to a world and society we would recognise but populate it with cetaceans and other sea fellows just amazes me and is a talent that is as unique as it is captivating deserves a lot more recognition.  I'll be reading Bees by her next, and will appreciate the natural world even more in an entirely different way than I ever did before. Powerful.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Colonisation