Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Strange Bird by Jeff VanderMeer

11 reviews

aileron's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad medium-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? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, and Death

Minor: Animal death and Cannibalism

zsabella's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Animal death

willow_the_wisp's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

leo_mal's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

Switching to a non-human character (sort of) made the world of Borne a lot easier to slip into the flow of. I'm still not sure why, maybe it seemed less ridiculous for all the nonsense to be happening to a nonsense creature. Probably my favorite VanderMeer protagonist I've read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Animal death

scytheria's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Confinement and Grief

Minor: Child abuse

valjeanval's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-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

5.0

A beautiful extension of the Borne universe. It’s Vandermeer at his best with weird and wonderful prose and complex perspective taking. While it’s mostly peripheral to the original novel, I wouldn’t read it without having read Borne. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Torture, Violence, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

bedtimesnack's review against another edition

challenging mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

This story was heartbreaking and thought-provoking. It challenged me to think about animals in a different way. The story might stand on its own okay, but it's meant as a companion novella to Borne. I would read Borne before this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, and Confinement

Moderate: Torture and Cannibalism

cursivewolf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-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

5.0

Absolutely beautiful. I adore the Strange Bird. A gorgeous tragic creature. Weeping towards the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Stalking, War, and Injury/Injury detail

bakerreads's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, War, and Injury/Injury detail

maryellen's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, and Blood