Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

8 reviews

saffeh's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

Southern small town and its supernatural inhabitants serving silly sexiness and early 2000's nostalgia through outdated tropes such as "I'm not like other girls" and "I can fix him". This is pure camp and I unapologetically love it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

wandering_seal's review against another edition

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

3.5

Righto I last read this series... twenty years ago? and in memory the books are sexy, a little transgressions and filled with that rot glossed over with southern charm that's so yummy to read. Clearly my palate has evolved, because this was barely sexy, not at all transgressive, and a little uncomfortable - our main man here is super casual about the whole slave holding business and while it's good that is referenced, I'd have liked it better handled.

Bill is so, so, so boring. Sookie can do better. Sookie is weirdly naive for someone working in a bar that can hear in people's heads. The story is fast food fine - super easy to consume and not going to fill you up for long. A younger me was very impressed with this series - today me is willing to keep going because I remember thinking Eric was worth it and I'm curious as to how wrong I could have been.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse and Death of parent

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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

Dead Until Dark is the first book in the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. The Sookie Stackhouse series is also the inspiration for the HBO show, True Blood. Dead Until Dark was a good introduction and first book in the series, I really enjoyed the journey. 

Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in a small town in Louisiana and she's always wanted to meet a vampire because in this world vampires have been exposed and humans and vampires have been trying to co habituate together.  Sookie meets her first vampire in Bill, a (confederate) civil war era vampire. Bill is quite taken with Sookie and she is equally taken with him.

I don't like that Sookie's grandma was so excited

to have a confederate speak to her descendants club. Ya'll know they were fighting to keep slavery a thing, right?

I think this was one of the only things I really disliked about the novel.  

There's a murder mystery mingled in with some paranormal romance and I really enjoyed this book. It was gory, sexy, mysterious, and entertaining. I'm giving this 4.5 stars out of 5 because I had a lot of fun with this read. 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4.5/5 Stars

I read this for free on Libbyapp.com

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

vicblue's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Murder

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

serenephedra's review against another edition

dark lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Incest, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

avie_j's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious sad 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? No

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Gore, Hate crime, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse

embla_v's review against another edition

dark mysterious

3.0

Jag gillade boken och den var väldigt underhållande. Jag kommer 100% fortsätta läsa serien. 

Boken handlar om Sookie som jobbar som servitris på en bar. En dag kommer Bill in i baren men Bill är inte vem som helst han är vampyr. Vampyrer lever nämligen offentligt bland människor. Men fler och fler kvinnor börjar hittas döda och Sookie verkar vara på mördaren radar. 

En underhållande romans mellan en människa och en vampyr. Kan definitivt rekommendera serien. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Incest, Pedophilia, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

mmefish's review against another edition

funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

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

1.5

Light/brainless but very problematic read. Would give it 1 star if I haven’t watched the show.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racism, Toxic relationship, and Xenophobia

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, and Death of parent