Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Cujo by Stephen King

45 reviews

lizziemarie01's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Death, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Classism, Misogyny, and Gaslighting

Minor: Murder, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Drug use, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Racism, and Sexual assault

brunchisyum's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

seeker42's review against another edition

dark tense slow-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Violence, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Child death, and Child abuse

Minor: Murder, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, and Cursing

kreglow's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Misogyny, Murder, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Animal death, Grief, Cursing, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Stalking, Child death, Classism, Death, Gore, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Racial slurs, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Sexual harassment, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Panic attacks/disorders

skelleybean's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Sexual harassment, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Sexual content, Violence, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Gore, and Body horror

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Confinement, Grief, Physical abuse, Cursing, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

kgdavis88's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Animal death and Child death

Minor: Rape and Racial slurs

jacob_dion's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, and Violence

Minor: Racial slurs

idaida's review

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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape

nadia's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I wasn't sure how much I was going to get into a book about a monster dog, or how scared I'd feel while reading it, but I got into it and I did feel scared, tense, and on edge at various points! Again, also fun to see the small advantages to my King chronological read with this one! A solid book, with an unsurprising emotional tug, that goes a lot deeper than the obvious scary parts!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Body horror, and Child death

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Rape

hue's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

2.0

If this would've been written entirely (or mostly at least) in Cujo's point of view, this could've been a four star book. But the unnecessary, hideously boring jarring affairs, childhood memories and what other garbage (like Steve Kemp's existence) that didn't further the plot and didn't grow on the characters made this such a drag to read. The amount of characters with no relevance and still five pages worth of character background made me want to quit the story. Typical Stephen King.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Excrement, Gore, Child death, Domestic abuse, Animal death, and Body horror