Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino

32 reviews

maria_mccoy's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Death

Minor: Animal death and Abandonment

hmcastaldo's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

captivating- did not want to put down 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Cancer

lgray's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, and Death

julieb3a's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.25

It didn’t feel like all that much happened, but I felt some appropriate feels at points that made it slightly better than the average book for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, and Xenophobia

savsim's review

challenging funny reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

Minor: Sexual content and Acephobia/Arophobia

alsira98's review

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

Minor: Ableism

opalmal's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This book left me desiring more sci fi aspects since the realistic fiction aspects of it made it so so depressing. It was so beautifully written but It’s bleak and unforgiving. I feel worse off with my existentialism than when I started.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death and Death

cassondradubois's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Death

sam8834's review

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Truly so much going on in this novel. It's weird but not for the sake of it. The concept of an alien girl communicating the wonder of human life to her home planet through a fax machine doesn't overshadow the heart of the character herself and the emotional coming-of-age journey the book takes you on. Awe is such a brilliant actual character in the book, but again, not for the sake of conveying quirkiness. There is ACE REPRESENTATION, which is sooooo hard to find in literary novels, and even when you do, it's some side character that barely contributes to the plot.

No notes, except for the title not at all doing the book justice. Bertino has done something great here and managed to write a clever novel that doesn't jump up and down saying, "Hi, look at me! I'm trying to be clever!"

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death

fiddle_leaf_ferg's review

hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death