Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The North Water by Ian McGuire

13 reviews

sirissacgluten's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual content, Vomit, and Colonisation

Minor: Alcoholism, Antisemitism, and Cannibalism

jackbifrost's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Medical content, and Colonisation

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual violence, Vomit, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Outing, and Alcohol

kissmyash0600's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This was a brutal and difficult story to get through. I also feel like it lost momentum partway through. Given the time period, be aware of racism of antisemitism in the story. None of the characters were particularly interesting and I feel like there wasn’t much development that made me prefer any character over another. There was one character worth hating, which was very clear, but other than that, the characters were pretty blah. It seems like this wanted to be a story of hardship and survival during the whaling trade, but it just didn’t fully work for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Blood

Moderate: Drug abuse, Homophobia, Excrement, and Murder