Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

22 reviews

daniellemjoyce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Cultural appropriation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Drug use, Eating disorder, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Murder and Pandemic/Epidemic

scifi_rat's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Racism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

alyxinthestars's review against another edition

reflective sad tense slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Body shaming

Minor: Animal cruelty, Racism, Car accident, and Classism

teanahk's review

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

An interesting, somewhat unlikeable cast of characters. 
Full of sumptuous descriptions of food. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child death

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Racism

Minor: Sexual assault

ivi_reads_books's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

The story is set in a dystopian world in which an environmental catastrophe darkened earth's sky resulting in chaos and lack of food. We follow a chef to a remote mountain top where an influential man built a restaurant serving fresh food grown on his lands. A luxury only few can afford.
The book is very sensual and pleasure focussed which stands in contrast to the dying world around them. 
The book was a little bit too dark and gross for me at times but that is to be expected from a dystopian book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Alcoholism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Eating disorder, Physical abuse, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, and War

ieatbooks_'s review against another edition

reflective medium-paced

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

2.25

I was excited going into this cause I thought it was a pretty interesting premise, but I found it very disappointing. It feels like it’s building towards a theme or message, but the experiences of the main character are never meaningfully dissected, or reflected upon. The ending is especially bad, but overall, it’s just messy.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Car accident, and Death of parent

lorenag5's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Sexual content, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Cultural appropriation, Classism, and Deportation

paulasnotsosecretdiary's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

wynnebirchmaple's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.5

This short big runs deep and wide. It’s a lot of things… Dystopia, Socio-political commentary, Satire, Gastro Horror, Loss of a Mother story, and a cautionary tale regarding climate collapse, how we change food and food changes us and change is inevitable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Racism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

It’s not as bad as the content warnings might suggest but it tries to be for brief moments. Is this why Ron Charles hated this book? I enjoyed it

dystopia's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Xenophobia, and Classism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexism, Car accident, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child death, Physical abuse, Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic