Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Banitka by Anna North

55 reviews

shaun_dh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

“No plot, just vibes” really fits here. Initially I was eating it up, but I was left wanting more

The premise was great and I liked the MC, but nothing felt fully developed. I was obsessed with this merry band of misfits—so gay! such gender fuckery! such unabashedly feminist energy!—but we never really got to know them. And I really wanted to know them! 

Where the book ended up going was good, but again, not nearly fleshed out enough. It all felt one-dimensional and ultimately left me disappointed 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Misogyny

Moderate: Animal death, Infertility, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Minor: Incest, Racism, Sexual violence, and Transphobia

jfalb330's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Homophobia, and Racism

Minor: Mental illness, Miscarriage, and Self harm

abmochapman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

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

3.75

A very interesting premise and a well-crafted adventure

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Blood, Police brutality, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Abortion, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Incest, Rape, and Suicide attempt

hannahpings's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

3.0

maybe the most disappointed in a book i've been in a long time. queerness is made both accessory and token, and the story north is trying to tell in no way justifies the alternate history she's created for it. absolutely wild to me that you can set out to purport that biological essentialism is bad (but perhaps i'm giving her too much credit?) and then come up with a book that is... very much supportive of biological essentialism. even aside from my own icky feelings about outlawed as a queer person, so much of what north has done here feels like craft malpractice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Transphobia, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Abortion and Colonisation

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Incest, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Alcohol

brookebatesratesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• 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: Animal death, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Suicide, Blood, Abortion, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Rape

acemummerz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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: Gun violence

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

chasingpages1's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense 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? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Racism, Self harm, Police brutality, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Mass/school shootings, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and Classism

moonvest's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

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

2.5

GOTTA check those content warnings, folks!!

This is objectively a good book, but it was just more yucky than what I can handle right now. I was promised “lesbian cowboys” but it’s largely about child death and grief. Which is, you know, a trigger for me.

You’d probably like it though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Incest, Infertility, Miscarriage, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death

aubreystrawberry's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Blood, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Blood, Medical content, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

rachealcroucher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Homophobia, Infertility, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal death, Body shaming, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Classism