Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Chicas de Papel y de Fuego by Natasha Ngan

31 reviews

cdoubet's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Vomit

kelsee0678's review against another edition

animal cruelty in chapter 2 put me in a bad mood 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

annevivliohomme's review against another edition

funny sad tense

3.0

It's so important to talk about consent and sexual assault, and this book discussed the heavy topics in a very honest way. The book manages to be critical while maintaining accessibility. The characters, plot, and especially writing, are a bit too simple for my liking, but I still think it's a solid book. An intriguing contrast is seen between the romance and the humour. Both, in order for me to enjoy, rely on timing and delivery. While the romance felt oddly paced and without enough substance, the few jokes often made me smile even in public. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

books_of_calypso's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

brigid_reads_romance's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-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

4.5

I think it’s going to take me a while to sort out how I feel about this book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Genocide, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Death of parent

hollysbookadventure's review against another edition

Tw dog dies, tw sexual assault [medical]

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Medical trauma

annaki_laila's review against another edition

dark hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Rape

Minor: Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

anaguana's review against another edition

dark emotional

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Murder, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Minor: Homophobia and Fire/Fire injury

almoore5's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

sammymilfort's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? It's complicated

1.0

I’ve had this book on my radar since I started watching booktok and no one told me how drained I would feel after.

I liked the authors writing style and the pacing of elements was good, but this book was traumatic and there was little to no reprieve.

I appreciate the author putting trigger warnings before her story to warn readers, but no one tells you how graphic the SA scenes get. I was enjoying the story in the first part (about 100 pages) but then it got to be too much for me.

I felt like many of the characters and world were underdeveloped and the only time I enjoyed this book was during the romance of Lei and Wren

The plot in itself is vague and kind of predictable, but other than that I kept thinking so many times as I read this how can this be marketed as YA?

The amount of times I was deeply disturbed from this book and had to take multiple breaks was astounding because that is how dark and truly horrible this reading experience was for me.

I know abuse is an important part in stories and highlighting it in stories is sometimes needed and important, but with this it felt cruel and unnecessary

I kept thinking to myself how could a teenager read this without being affected emotionally in some type of way. I know if I was still in my young teens I could not grasp or be able understand this in a way I do now, but this book is trauma based and I think it’s important to note that.

This story had so much potential but instead I am getting a therapy session out of this

Please if you are thinking of reading this book- CHECK TW and be prepared for graphic SA of minors and more

TW: Violence, Blood, Body Horror, Branding, Graphic SA and Rape, non consensual, physical and emotional abuse

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

I’ve had this book on my radar since I started watching booktok and no one told me how drained I would feel after. I liked the authors writing style and the pacing of elements was good, but this book was traumatic and there was little to no reprieve. I appreciate the author putting trigger warnings before her story to warn readers, but no one tells you how graphic the SA scenes get. I was enjoying the story in the first part (about 100 pages) but then it got to be too much for me. I felt like many of the characters and world were underdeveloped and the only time I enjoyed this book was during the romance of Lei and Wren The plot in itself is vague and kind of predictable, but other than that I kept thinking so many times as I read this how can this be marketed as YA? The amount of times I was deeply disturbed from this book and had to take multiple breaks was astounding because that is how dark and truly horrible this reading experience was for me. I know abuse is an important part in stories and highlighting it in stories is sometimes needed and important, but with this it felt cruel and unnecessary I kept thinking to myself how could a teenager read this without being affected emotionally in some type of way. I know if I was still in my young teens I could not grasp or be able understand this in a way I do now, but this book is trauma based and I think it’s important to note that. This story had so much potential but instead I am getting a therapy session out of this Please if you are thinking of reading this book- CHECK TW and be prepared for graphic SA of minors and more TW: Violence, Blood, Body Horror, Branding, Graphic SA and Rape, non consensual, physical and emotional abuse