Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

43 reviews

kayla0530's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I’ll be thinking about this for a while. I’m searching for every book that has vore or romantic cannibalism in it and this came highly recommended to me. It’s beautiful and tragic at the same time and almost made me feel the way I felt when I read exquisite corpse the first time. I do wish certain scenes were more descriptive but that’s just me being a creep. I read this book once and am already thinking of getting a tattoo based off it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Murder

allthingseryn's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Murder

lizardgod's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

2.5

Kudos to a book making me queasy? That's about all it had going for it, nothing really to write home about.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Racial slurs, Racism, and Alcohol

Minor: Infidelity and Stalking

cabeswaren's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Blood, Vomit, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

Minor: Cancer

0ogazanami's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction and Body horror

Minor: Child death, Misogyny, Sexual content, Torture, Vomit, Cannibalism, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

brainbread's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

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

1.75

it was a kinda fun read ngl, but it was really short. sometimes it felt like things were missing and the pacing would feel a bit rushed, but it is less than 100 pages and that can all be boiled down to the unreliable narrator but even that feels like a cop out. there is a lot of /I'm just gonna tell you what happened/. honestly, it felt like if you took the sentences and made it bullet points it would read in the exact same way as the book did. that is to say, it feels like plot points were listed and the important bits are randomly added on to make the story make sense while not having any real footing. it felt like it needed to be expanded upon greatly, which makes sense since it is less than 100 pages

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Blood, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

possible tws: if you like animals, then I'd say maybe be cautious of this book. similarly, there is violence against a poc character initiated by the white, main character so if that may be troubling to you, maybe avoid this book

hen800's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.5

A really effective, depraved horror. Poetically written - but I didn’t find the main character’s obsession with vultures that believable, as we’re thrust into extreme thoughts from the start. Would’ve been more believable if the descent into obsession was slower, so it felt less like a gross-out horror that just intended to shock.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

heartachesbi's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Child death, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Racism

hayleyw's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Cannibalism, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual harassment

keddy4306's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

HAHAHA only read this to induce vomiting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Eating disorder, Gore, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Cannibalism, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting