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avoticat'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
4.5
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Gore, and Blood
Moderate: Drug use and Misogyny
Minor: Mental illness, Excrement, and Alcohol
This is a book about a woman who turns into a dog and then spends the majority of the book in-between these states. There is violence towards animals, body horror, gore, and a fair amount of internal speculation on if this is really happening. There is also a MLM that sell herbs that have a drug-like effect.lavieenrose'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, Gore, Xenophobia, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Sexual content, Violence, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Dysphoria
Minor: Excrement, Abandonment, and Alcohol
toksoplazmozy'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
5.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, and Blood
Minor: Pregnancy and Alcohol
cozychels's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Blood
Moderate: Pregnancy
Minor: Misogyny and Alcohol
torturedreadersdept's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Blood, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail
placeholder13'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
2.5
Graphic: Animal death and Dysphoria
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Mental illness, and Alcohol
Minor: Body horror, Sexual content, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
gondorgirl'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? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Moderate: Body horror, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, and Alcohol
aliyachaudhry'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
4.25
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Drug use, Gore, Sexism, Violence, and Blood
Moderate: Sexual content, Excrement, and Alcohol
fedelikeslego's review against another edition
- 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? Yes
1.0
- Who where those strawberry dogs? Was she just loosing her mind? I didn’t get it.
- What was even the point of the Wanda plot? I have no idea.
- The relationship with Nightbitch husband was just so useless, also he changed in a second? Like, so unexpectedly? I got the point of him just being good, but “typically male” the whole time, but it could have been deepen it better? It just sounds so stupid
- Honestly, just the whole dog thing that she randomly set aside.
- her son just disappear? Like, I get the point of her finally being a free human being (again, difficult after motherhood), but like, he just suddenly disappear?
What was I expecting from this book before reading it?
Literally a mother who turned in to a dog, but like, fisically, not only mentally.
What would i have preferred, after reading it?
A short book would have been much better, not a short story, but like a 100-120 pages book, so less then the half of it.
As a artist myself I loved every single time she talked about art, making art and being an artist. I also loved the performance at the end, made perfect sense with her feelings (Not feeling sure about his husband reactions? You’re eating a rotten cadaver from the ground? Sounds great! I’ll shower you, i’ll love your performance!)
The domestic cat violence was a blow to the heart, I didn’t want to read it.
So… I’m just disappointed, I expected much more in terms of both plot and general message? Let’s objectively look at it, no emotions, how could you not found obvious what she said? The “perfect mother era” finished like decades ago? A lot of people think that and admit that right now, there’s communities, support groups. Literally nothing was revolutionary about it.
Don’t get me wrong, the 1 star is not because “it’s too weird”, I read weirder books, it’s just not good, extremely poor execution.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Alcohol
helhas3letters'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? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Sexism, Violence, and Blood
Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, Medical content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol