Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Kuinka murhata mies ja päästä pälkähästä by Katy Brent

63 reviews

jasreadsstuff's review against another edition

dark funny medium-paced

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

4.75

Extremely dark humour, still light and funny a lot of the times and was somehow still rooting for the love story. Love how the plot unfolded! I guessed a couple of the twists shortly before they were revealed and yet still found the reveals delightfully written with some surprising elements. I’m not one for a dark or gory book but I thoroughly enjoyed this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Miscarriage, Sexual assault, and Murder

bookishfoxes's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious fast-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

3.25

Ah, I'm struggling so much with this book. If it didn't include unnecessary disgustingly detailed scenes of killing animals, it would've easily been a higher rating. I enjoyed the story. I laughed, I nearly cried. I was shocked by plottwists. I loved reading about an unhinged character getting revenge on awful people. But the animal scenes... look, maybe I'm weird for being fine with detailed murder of fictional people, but even a mention of dead animals makes me want to puke. These extremely detailed scenes of animals being killed? It completely ruined this book for me that I almost DNFed me. It felt unnecessary and disgusting. It made me sick. 

So yeah, in the end, I don't think I'd even recommend this book because of that. If it weren't for those scenes, this would've been an all time favorites. But alas.

Not sure if I'll read the sequel. The animal deaths in this book came out of nowhere because I didn't research trigger warnings - I didn't have to because aside from animal abuse and death, I don't need those. But I'll do some research on the sequel and if it has scenes like that as well. If not, I might still read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

silvia_henry's review against another edition

dark 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Minor: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

rachel101's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Made in Chelsea meets female feminist “Dexter”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

janicecm's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

This is an enjoyable bit of fluff. Even though it’s quite dark, the unrealistic storyline keeps it from feeling possible, and therefore it isn’t heavy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Gore, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

sundaybookclub's review against another edition

dark funny tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

sarah984's review against another edition

dark funny fast-paced

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

1.0

Absolutely nothing about this worked for me. The humour wasn't funny, the characters had no personality, the plot twist was ridiculous. A lot of it felt like it was written to be quoted on twitter.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Self harm, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, and Cannibalism

caitlinvdj's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

periwinkleandpeach's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Stalking, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

ooms's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

2.25

First I wouldn’t highly recommend checking the warning for this book before you dive in. 
Although I personally felt this book was aiming at inspiration and funny with its dark humour and plot line. I think the execution missed. It is a tense book with a few plot holes and the amount of humour isn’t enough to balance the uncomfortable reflection of reality this book brings.

I thought due to the name of the book there would be more planning before the murder. I’m all for the premise of a book that puts power back in the hands of women. However I feel the graphic description of what happened to the women in this book was not equal to the death they were dealt. Also any power that it felt women may have was completely stripped away at the end with how James treated Kitty when she wasn’t prepared with any of her tools she was still unable to get away. Also ending with the 2 women killed unfortunately left me with the horrible reminder that this is the world we live in and no ones out there to help us.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Self harm, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Vomit