Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Primal Animals by Julia Lynn Rubin

6 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

simplyammee'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcohol

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

fig29's review

challenging dark tense 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: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Alcohol, and Sexual violence

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Infidelity

other tws: anxiety/panic attacks, fear of bugs (entomophobia), blood mention/self harm, hazing (licking blood), underage alcohol usage, mention of parental abuse, cheating (from a parental figure), murder off page (recounted), mention of dead animals (+ horse fetus), sexism, discussions of sexual assault/harassment, arson, emetophobia warning (a lot of discussion of wanting to throw up & on page throwing up),

readswithrachel's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Body shaming, Death, Drug use, Gaslighting, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual harassment, and Vomit