addythebookbat's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Animal death, Gore, Cannibalism, Mental illness, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Body horror, and Death
mickraine's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Gore, Pregnancy, and Sexism
Moderate: Confinement, Bullying, and Body horror
Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Forced institutionalization, and Excrement
traa's review against another edition
- 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
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
directorpurry's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Body horror, Animal death, Gore, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Pregnancy and Excrement
clare072's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Death, Animal cruelty, and Animal death
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Drug use, Grief, and Pregnancy
avasadored's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Animal death and Blood
Moderate: Death, Body horror, Cursing, Sexual content, and Gore
Minor: Excrement and Pregnancy
zalouis's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Death, Gore, Animal death, Blood, and Violence
Moderate: Cursing
saoirsebb's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence
mermaidsherbet's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, and Death
Moderate: Child abuse
Minor: Sexual content
kry_yang's review against another edition
- 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? It's complicated
4.0
I think the beginning 2/3rds of the story was really strong; the unnamed characters and their relationships with each other are truly fascinating, and I thought Yonder did a great job of capturing the everyday brutality of being a child's caretaker. Some of the language and stream-of-consciousness writing lost me at the end of the story, and I wonder if this novel could have been like 50 pages shorter...
Overall I really enjoyed reading Yonder's prose! It's on the flowery side, but there are plenty of action-packed scenes in the book, so I didn't feel like the author's prose hindered the pacing of the story *too much*. A stellar debut; one of the most disturbing/weird things I've ever read in my life, but stellar nonetheless!
(Also, so many content warnings for this book... This book is really disturbing, like probably more disturbing than anything you've read before...)
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Violence