Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys

11 reviews

bswanntastic's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

don't skip the epilogue or author's notes, they close out the novel really well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

Minor: Child abuse, Animal cruelty, and Violence

greylandreviews's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

“How could we expect others to feel our pain or hear our cries for help when all we could do was whisper?”
A really informative and interesting book. I really like when Sepetys only writes from one point of view. When she does multiple, it just becomes jumbly and pacing is kind of thrown off. The narrator for this one was good also.
I never knew this about Romania and I'm really glad I learned about it. Giving a voice to a silent past is what Sepetys is a master at.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Police brutality, Animal cruelty, Blood, Alcohol, Death, Excrement, Body horror, Violence, Medical trauma, Genocide, Gore, War, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Vomit, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Cancer, and Sexual assault

speterson47's review

3.75

Set in Romania during the 1980s we are shown the life of Cristian and his family. All of them are terrified that all those they interact with are secret informants of the regime, and will expose them if they share their true feelings for their leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu. His life turns upside down one day when Cristian is found to have broken a rule and must also become an informant. Do they have any hope of a new way of life? When they can sneak radio time, they hear countries around them are changing. Can Cristian do anything from 'inside' the system to help bring that change? It is worth the risk?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty

readingwithkaitlyn's review

dark emotional medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexism, Death, Torture, Murder, War, Gun violence, Animal cruelty, Violence, Police brutality, Misogyny, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Gore

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Excrement

Minor: Death of parent, Child death, Classism, and Alcohol

davidd044's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Grief, Cursing, Blood, Murder, Gun violence, and Excrement

Minor: Animal cruelty

ghast's review against another edition

dark hopeful inspiring reflective tense slow-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? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Medical content, Death, and Gun violence

Minor: Animal cruelty and War

unforgivenparrot58's review

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Blood, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Classism, Death, Gaslighting, and Violence

Moderate: Genocide, Gore, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Mass/school shootings, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Grief

Minor: Excrement, Torture, Sexism, and Pregnancy

skyejay95's review

dark informative inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

As someone who didn’t know much about the topic, I like how informative and fast it was to know what was going on. I didn’t get that emotionally attached to any of the characters because of how fast it was but I also don’t like books that make me cry, so the emotional distance combined with the short chapters was really nice for me. It kept me engaged, focussed, and I kept drawing comparisons to today’s world. You felt the tension and seriousness of everything that was going on the entire time even if you didn’t deeply connect to any of the characters. I enjoyed it and learned a lot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: War, Violence, and Gun violence

Minor: Animal cruelty and Murder

clevelandbookgirl's review

reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Toxic relationship, Death, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, and Blood

Moderate: Gore, Torture, Grief, Alcohol, and Police brutality

Minor: Toxic friendship, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, and Animal cruelty

shesreadthat's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Genocide, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Police brutality, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Antisemitism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Torture, Violence, War, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Gun violence