Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson

43 reviews

betsygrace's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Really good book with twists I never expected, but the story felt nice and resolved nonetheless

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Hate crime, Child death, Racial slurs, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Sexism, Abortion, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Alcohol, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Infertility, and Medical trauma

winterfinch's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

Slow burn but I enjoyed it.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death

beccaj11's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

The writing is beautiful, but the book moves slowly for a while. It’s a heavy story with a lot of loss and grief, but the magnified look at a marriage under hardship and a town deeply rooted in its history was incredibly well done. What stopped me from giving this 4.5 or 5 stars? A truly devastating ending that I found completely unnecessary. This book has so much heaviness baked into it and just as the sun starts to shine through, it is torn apart again and honestly, it made me so mad. This writer is an incredibly talented storyteller and scene painter, but I will never forgive them for that ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Death, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Alcohol, Car accident, Violence, Misogyny, Abortion, Infidelity, and Animal death

Minor: War and Terminal illness

katesbooknook's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Racism, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Cursing, Miscarriage, Grief, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Misogyny, Murder, Abortion, Sexism, and Ableism

Minor: Cancer

bookswithmybulldog's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Infertility, Child death, Pregnancy, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Medical content, Death of parent, Infidelity, Car accident, and Violence

Minor: Abortion

ledegennaro's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Infertility

Moderate: Death and Miscarriage

Minor: Animal death

adriso's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

The way that this story brought the reader along the entire journey through all the twists and turns of life was nearly cinematic. The pace gave me a lot of time to warm up to the characters and inevitably love them all even through their flaws and challenges. It was an entirely emotional and vivid experience to read this novel and I loved almost every second of it.

It was relatable, funny, and heartbreaking till the end, and I completely unraveled towards the end. It felt like I came crashing down with the characters durring their greif and heartache.<spoiler/> This is the type of book I would spend months on and appreciate all the time I invest in it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Misogyny and Abortion

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Animal death

rosie_b's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Abortion, Miscarriage, and Animal death

hollybearhouck's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

A slow burn, one that brought me to tears multiple times.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Miscarriage

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, Infertility, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, and Cursing

miriamshira's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage, Injury/Injury detail, Infertility, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Death, and Animal death

Moderate: Death of parent