Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III

44 reviews

lars_'s review

2.75

Oh! Well, ok then

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Islamophobia, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Self harm, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Lesbophobia

blueroo's review

dark sad tense

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Islamophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse and Self harm

gaetkoguy's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-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

Quite the page turner! Dark and mysterious and quite twisted. Heed the content warnings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Cannibalism

Minor: Animal death, Stalking, and Suicide attempt

c_alma_d's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Pandemic/Epidemic

_terah_hansen_'s review

challenging dark fast-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Self harm, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, and Cannibalism

vyralvyris's review

dark sad medium-paced

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

1.5

A waste of time. Bland story, awful cast of characters, and way too much potty humor for what the story tried to be. Also sounds like it was written by an only child who has never seen siblings interact. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, and Cannibalism

b_fruits's review

Cliff hangers are such a lazy tool to end a “ooh but what WAS the big spooky thing!!!” story. So much shock value, little content. Gross but not in an interesting way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Gore, Self harm, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Cannibalism, and Injury/Injury detail

racl's review

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

2.0

I had heard such good things about this book, but it wasn't for me. Granted, I finished it in two sittings, but it's fairly short and mostly dialogue so that's not saying much.
The very end is compelling but you have to sift through 90% of the book being fart and butt jokes (to the point it's far outside the realm of realistic for the child character).
It's more shock horror and body horror than anything else when you do get horror, but mostly it's just listening in to a deeply disfunctional family and that's not fun to me personally.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Vomit

Minor: Excrement

owlribbon's review

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Blood, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Infidelity, Vomit, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

chelford's review against another edition

This was an intense read, and well-written, but I am mildly traumatized and refuse to believe the events as relayed by the unreliable narrator. Also, and potential spoiler, but

I find it hard to believe a family could simply sit and starve to death for days before thinking to chip away at the door with a sharp object.

. Regardless of how much it upset me, the book was definitely well done. I'd recommend it, with reservations. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Child death

Moderate: Sexual harassment