Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss

80 reviews

kerishma's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal death

spadefootfrog's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Sexism, and Xenophobia

hauntedantiqueshop's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

2.75

It was… alright. I wish it had more to it. I was expecting more of a folk horror story than just. Rampant misogyny.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Racism, and Injury/Injury detail

dreadspawn's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Vomit

staticbananas's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Injury/Injury detail

flamesocks's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

snazzy10101's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

this was a beautifully terrifying read. i’ve been crying a lot at my books recently. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

caileigh's review against another edition

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Further evidence that just having a PhD doesn’t mean you’re not an idiot. 
Also you might want to have a very basic idea of bog people prior to reading. Also if you’re a rabbit owner,

you should know that they hunt rabbits.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Racial slurs

poisoned_icecream's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad 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? Yes

5.0

Silvie and her parents are participating in an Iron Age reenactment with a professor and three students. Her dad is a cringey racist and misogynist piece of shit who hits his wife and daughter. Silvie and her mom are too afraid to stand up to him because he is loud and obnoxious. It is very obvious that to her dad (forgot his name), the reenactment is really an attempt to live out his pathetic fantasy in which there are no immigrants and women are there merely to cook and clean, especially when he and the professor make a ghost wall out of rabbit and cow skulls to keep out their imaginary enemies. This entire book is clearly a huge middle finger to Brexit and I love it so much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Classism

kalldaff's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.75

Writing style was unique and, although a little tricky to get into, added a lot to the dreamy quality of the whole story. I was so fearful that this would have a tragic ending, but the fact that it ended with two women coming to the rescue really healed some part of me. The fact that it seemed so obvious that the 17 year old girl would be victimized, just as is suggested of the bog girls throughout the story, yet it is through a college girl and a midwife that we as the readers are shown just how absurd it all is. Loved it. Hard to put into words how it made me feel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Homophobia