Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

La Vorace by Chelsea G. Summers

121 reviews

sineadlily's review against another edition

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

lucimolri's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No

3.0

“The choices that we have, the choices that we make-these choices condemn us, constrain is, and create us”.

3 ⭐️. Para lo corto que es, se me ha hecho un poco largo. No coge ritmo hasta que no llevas un 30% del libro, y la prosa puede hacerse algo pesada, ya que aunque es algo que entiendo por la personalidad de la protagonista, tanta palabra culta se puede llegar a hacer pesado. Aun así, una lectura interesante.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Cannibalism, and Murder

Moderate: Cancer

minanonim's review against another edition

dark reflective 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

2.75

This book is the memoir of a serial cannibalistic murderer who worked as a food critic. The premise sounded interesting and I had heard good things about this book. While the start was engaging, I quickly started to struggle. The writing style is flowery to a pretentious level, which fits the character, but quickly became tiring. There were paragraphs I ended up glossing over, which is very rare for me. For the relatively small page count, this book felt so so long. It read like a literary novel, the diary of a slightly technology-averse, extremely pretentious food critic, with some sprinkles of murder and cannibalism every now and again.

I do not, by any means, want to say this is a bad book. It is, however, definitely not the book for me. It is a classic case of "I don't mind any of the ingredients, but I don't like this recipe."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Infidelity, Cannibalism, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death

sallyrooneystanclub's review against another edition

challenging dark funny medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Blood, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Excrement, Vomit, Antisemitism, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Classism

vixenreader's review against another edition

challenging dark lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

4.0

As distasteful of a novel as going to a slaughterhouse to see where your steak comes from, it is still a compelling character study about the worst person to serve at any fine dining establishment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Cannibalism, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Fatphobia, Rape, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, and Gaslighting

Minor: Drug use, Excrement, Police brutality, and Medical content

Be aware that this text deals with sex intermingling with slaughter, bigotry towards polyamory, rimming, BDSM, butchering humans for food, imprisonment, tasteless sexual quips, and self-righteous opinions about food.

sheianus's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

Made my mouth water, made me gag a bit, and made me curious about what I’d taste like?
I appreciated how the narrator is a middle aged woman, as I feel we don’t read these types of stories with that demographic as the MC. It feels a lot more fleshed out as she takes us through her life and all these events that coalesce to bring us to where we find her. She’s lived a good amount of life and I feel the story shows that well. The story is told by an unreliable narcissist, and it definitely shows! But I like it all the more for that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Violence, Cannibalism, Car accident, and Murder

thenoboshow's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Stalking, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

The writing captured the pretention of the writers career in food journalism. As most people who eat with their eyes I feel like I could have been more excited about the storytelling in a visual format like a movie or TV show. Living in the head of the main character didn't give us the space to empathize with her nor the distance to understand the charisma that must have existed to allow her to move through the world as she did. A third perspective would have really served.

pantrat's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cancer, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

courtnyklly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.75

• unreliable narrator
• characters you hate 
• over descriptive food talk that will leave you hungry 
• over descriptive murder and gore that will leave you reeling 
• chaotic evil female energy 
• burn the patriarchy taken to the absolute extreme
• bizarre hannibal lector vibes if hannibal lector was an upper class white woman in her 40s 

but also:
• long tangents that are mostly irrelevant sub-information
• an unshocking “twist”
• two murders that we didn’t get to hear about that i would’ve preferred over some of the random stuff that was included
• a slow moving (sometimes confusing) account of the life of someone who is extremely unlikeable except for the fact you want to know how she ended up in prison

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

ohheyclaude's review against another edition

challenging dark 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, and Cannibalism