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Pod by Laline Paull

14 reviews

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

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Content Warnings

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

julesreadsstuff's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.75

I found it a little slow and complicated to get into initially but then once the pace picked up it was exciting and devastating and I didn’t want to put it down! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Child death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Grief, Death of parent, Excrement, Murder, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexism, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

pinkfluffygoat's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Rape, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Death of parent, and Animal death

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

withlivjones's review

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

4.0

An excellently-crafted story of belonging and survival in the face of ecological crisis, from the perspective of marine life. Paull does a fantastic job of bringing the ocean to life and making every character seem so… human? It’s also super clear how badly the climate crisis has affected the oceans and their wildlife, and Paull doesn’t sugarcoat this at all - don’t go into this book thinking it’s going to be a whimsical story about dolphins because it’s sooo dark. Beautifully written with a lot of emotion - the only thing I didn’t like was that the romance (although I wouldn’t even call it that) at the end felt really rushed to the point that it didn’t make a lot of sense character-wise, it would have been better with a couple more chapters dedicated to developing the relationship between the characters. Other than that, though, I loved it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Child abuse, Child death, Addiction, Animal cruelty, and Death of parent

creepycrawlybookworm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative 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? No

5.0

I can completely see that this book would not suit everyone, but I really loved it. There were some real surprises in here, amongst the darkness. I generally love fiction with animal protagonists anyway, so maybe I am slightly biased, but I really appreciated this book for it’s beauty, rawness, brutal honesty, heart wrenching twists, and also the rays of hope.
If you loved The Bees, and The Handmaids’s Tale, I’d highly recommend it, but I would definitely check trigger warnings if you need to do so, some sections are brutal to read, representing the animals’ survival and struggles in graphic scenes, so please go in forewarned. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Death, Rape, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Excrement, Child death, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Ableism, Medical trauma, Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

vrhayes08's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Drug use, Violence, Sexism, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Gore, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, and Addiction

kwahl's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Excrement, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, War, Abandonment, Bullying, Child abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Rape, Addiction, Animal death, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Suicide, Torture, Trafficking, Vomit, Genocide, Kidnapping, Murder, Body horror, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Colonisation, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Sexual assault

booking_along's review

dark informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

3.0

this is a bit of a difficult book to rate and review. 

i see why people love it and i can see why people don’t. 

it’s brutally honest and how’s a direct view into how the marine life is effected by humanity in different ways - but all of them destroying and killing the marine wild life  in some way either directly or indirectly.

so this isn’t a light fun read but a brutal one. 
but one that needs to be told that way. 


so i can see why some people read this and are horrified by how it is written and describes some moments or how they… well not like since it’s brutal and horrific but that this book does what really happen justice and because of that is very well done. 


as someone extremely invested in marine life and wanting to help in any way i can… i expected to love this. 

and in some ways i was blown away by how the author managed to tell this story as she does. 

but at the same time… i don’t like the humanization of the animals. i didn’t enjoy reading the thoughts and “hearing” the animals talk with each other in the same ways that humans would. 
and that might sound weird but i but i can’t explain it better than that. 

i just would have liked a more nonfiction fiction writing style as an observer that sees the different behavior in Ea and all the other things and tries to understand… i don’t know.

i just didn’t love reading about dolphins and whales that  thinks like a human. 

i don’t even know if it’s just because i wasn’t in the right mindset or if the writing style just doesn’t work for me but something just kept annoying me with this book and it’s story it just never became this great story to me that it could be. 


i wanted to read this and love this but sadly it didn’t work out like that. at least not for me. 

but i do think that this book can work for a lot of people and that anyone that thinks this looks interesting should try it. 
and it’s wonderful that this book became short listed for the “women price for fiction” because hopefully more people will read it because of that and will learn and see the horrors that the oceans and the inhabitants of it go through. 
which certainly is something more people need to learn and hear more about! 


so i do recommend this book.
even if it didn’t work for me personally as i had hoped. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Murder, and Violence

quirinius's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, and Rape