Reviews tagging 'Cursing'

Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

21 reviews

yafi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Sexual content, Gore, Misogyny, Self harm, Blood, and Child abuse

aliyachaudhry's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Drug use, Gore, Cursing, Sexism, Violence, and Animal death

Moderate: Alcohol, Sexual content, and Excrement

msradiosilence's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Gaslighting, and Gore

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

Minor: Body shaming

emory's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Misogyny

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Extremely graphic and upsetting depiction of the murder of a household pet at the end of the book's second part

traa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Alcohol, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Cursing

Moderate: Mental illness, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Body horror, and Drug use

Minor: Classism, Misogyny, Child abuse, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Stalking, Excrement, and Gaslighting

avasadored's review against another edition

dark funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Electric, practically crackles. An overall sensation and a brutally honest depiction of the separation but also connection between motherhood and womanhood. A refreshing horror story with enough humor to make it digestible while also knowing when to cut back on such to explain the intensity and disturbance of certain scenes. I hope Yoder continues to write more novels in her career. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Death, Body horror, Cursing, Sexual content, and Gore

Minor: Excrement and Pregnancy

finleyfrogreads's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood

Moderate: Cursing, Misogyny, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Drug use

edgaranjapoe's review against another edition

challenging reflective slow-paced

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

1.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Murder, Sexual content, Cursing, Child abuse, and Violence

crypticapricorn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring fast-paced

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

3.5

Keeps you guessing, that’s for sure. I found it a tad self indulgent; saying what the message is supposed to be rather than simply showing you. Thought-provoking and deeply important messages about women and motherhood are present even if overshadowed at times by a “self aware” style that turns annoying. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Body horror, Blood, Animal cruelty, Cursing, and Gore

racl's review against another edition

inspiring mysterious reflective fast-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

5.0

As someone who has no intention of being a mother, I didn't go into this book expecting to be as touched, as inspired as I was. Not only is it a very real look at motherhood - both the trauma and the deep love of it - but also the magic and power of womanhood without truly villianizing men by the end
The main character is allowed to be human, to be vitriolic and vulnerable, selfish and self-sacrificing. The author doesnt shy away from gore and the woman's mistakes but also makes the shame, and later self discovery, truly palpable. Incredible read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, and Drug use

Minor: Pregnancy