Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Rats by James Herbert

6 reviews

harveyhorse321's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Well, that was horrible.
A surprising amount of sex was squeezed into a plot about giant mutant rats eating people alive, but that’s classic horror for you. Loved the sort of short stories weaved into the overarching plot.

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Mental illness, Racism, and Sexual harassment

quoth_chloe's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

1.0

The first time you meet the main character, The Hero, the knight in shining armour of this novel he remarks on the bouncing br**sts of two of his 14 year old students 👀

Yeah there’s nasty, infectious rats but I genuinely preferred them to the main character, the view on women is just appalling and I can’t stand when people say it was different then. Okay doesn’t mean it didn’t make you an a**hole. 

1 star solely for the cool mutant rat at the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

lydiavsbooks's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

A short grim horror about a plague of giant rats hungry for human flesh. It follows a variety of characters as they come in to contact with the rats, and as they attempt to put a stop to them.

It did exactly what it described, a fun little horror to gross you out. I didn't realise this was written in the 70s before I started reading it, but it then became very apparent with its casual racism and sexism. Its just very of its time. I didn't particularly like any of the characters, but I didn't feel the need to for it to get the job done of grossing you out.

A decent time but not one that will stay with me

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, and Blood

norwegianforestreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

adrianmcc's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Misogyny, and Blood

kjm_x's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Violence, Blood, Cannibalism, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail