Reviews tagging 'Sexual assault'

Primal Animals by Julia Lynn Rubin

4 reviews

caseythereader's review

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Gore, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Classism, and Vomit

Minor: Sexual assault

binarywho's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

1.5

It had such an amazing start and could have been one of those books I kept coming back to as a reread. The characters and all the plot points are set up so well to start off with but it’s like time run out and every thread was dropped, unexplored or brought to a tasteless conclusion and well

thé attempt to get the to sympathise and empathise with rapists can really f*ck right off and honestly ruined the book for me, it was so well setup only to fall so hard

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Graphic description of bugs

patricktreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Going into this I thought I was going to reading a casual little summer camp mystery. I had no clue we were going into college prep summer camp haunted by an active all women cult dating back the pilgrim era. 

I was in shock by the turns through the entire book from opening to those final quarter twists. There were parts that I thought were predictable at first, but then out of nowhere it would flip the complete opposite way.

I do give off one point for no content warnings. This work deals a lot with drinking and assault. I also gave a point off because of frequent the alcohol and drug use of 16 years was. I get it’s a summer camp but that was a bit shocking.

In the end, I did bump it back up to 4 because the content of the story was just so intense and good. 

Thank you to #recordedbooks and #netgalley for the audio arc of this book. I would most likely end up purchasing a hard copy of this to read again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Death, Drug use, and Sexism

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Toxic friendship

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.0

 I received this book from the publisher through Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
The narrator was great. But the story was lacking. I didn't care for the ending. It was a bit gross. Also, it got overly descriptive of the clothing. As well as just falling flat. I mean it was okay and I liked some of the characters, but it was a bit predictable. I saw most of the twists coming. But I liked that it was diverse and most of the characters were lovable, but not the main mc. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Alcohol, Drug use, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Vomit, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Stalking, Cursing, Excrement, Sexual harassment, Animal death, and Misogyny

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault