Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus

4 reviews

emily_daydreaming's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book, this book, this book!
It pulled me in and held me captive until the very end. It is so dark and twisted and yet also romantic and hopeful. It was way more violent and gorey than I expected but it suited the story. The lives of the characters were woven together, overlapping each other in such a way that was so satisfying to me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Blood, Child death, Child abuse, Classism, Murder, Racism, Animal cruelty, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Violence, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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: Violence, Sexism, Gore, Cursing, Addiction, Animal death, Vomit, Homophobia, War, Torture, Religious bigotry, Mental illness, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Domestic abuse, Grief, Colonisation, Misogyny, Death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Medical content, Racism, Ableism, Xenophobia, Physical abuse, Murder, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Classism, and Alcohol

delienn's review

emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Animal death, Body horror, Gun violence, Racism, Death, Animal cruelty, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexism, and Sexual content

gracew's review

challenging emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

As beautiful in book form as it is in film. This book does a lot of background work and gives us POVs that makes some characters more likable and others more terrible. I think it captures a lot of what the film said in words the film couldn't. Also I just love women falling in love with monsters where the monsters are metaphors for marginalized people, particularly when there are other marginalized people in the story to drive the point that what makes us human is kindness, not violence. Del Torro is just *chefs kiss* honestly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Death, Racism, Ableism, and Homophobia