Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Cat and The City by Nick Bradley

8 reviews

maimber's review

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

i really loved this book! seeing how all the characters lives were intertwined was so fascinating and always excited me when i saw a sentence about a person i recognised. seeing everyone interwoven and connected through a singular cat helped to expand outside of the (usually) narrow view of books that solely focus on a few characters. it speaks about life and how easy it is to feel like you’re the only person alive and other people fade into the background. when side characters names were mentioned, their stories often appeared later in the book and that really drove home the sentiment that you never truly know what’s going on in someone’s life unless you hear from them yourself. it offered a realistic understanding of the complexity of people and their separate and widely interconnected lives.

there were some aspects of this story that confused me but nearer the end i got settled in more. my only gripe is that because all the chapters are about different characters it’s not the easiest book to sit and read in one sitting. because of how separate the chapters feel it’s almost like reading them as their own short stories. this book was a tad harder to read than books that are just centred around a few characters but i enjoyed the variety of life experiences showcased through each individual character.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Death, Infidelity, Racism, Suicide, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

sakisreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

✨ Thrifted ✨

There were SO MANY CHARACTERS and it was incredibly difficult to follow along and keep up with everything. However, the ways in which the characters’ lives intertwined and the cat touched upon every single one was clever. I gasped every time I recognised a character’s story bleeding into another’s 😳

I loved Kensuke’s comic moment! What a cool idea to include his childlike nature 👏🏼

3.5 out of 5 stars for me, thank you ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Death, Blood, Police brutality, and Grief

clairew97's review against another edition

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Abortion, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

miri42's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Child death and Death

kaseni's review against another edition

emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

A genuinely amazing book, an accurate and fascinating picture of Tokyo and it's people.
Very well written and

the whole cat situation and the huge network of people and relationships is mesmerising

Would recommend to those who what to escape reality.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, and Sexual content

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

zara89's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Car accident, and Alcohol

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Abortion, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Pregnancy

Minor: Murder

minxtte's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

Minor: Animal cruelty, Racism, Vomit, Police brutality, and Abortion

sheryl_macca's review

challenging mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

The Cat and The City is written in a very 'Japanese' way. It's slow paced, understated and full of metaphor. The City is more than a setting. Every aspect of the city is explored; as a birth place, home, place of work or a place to play, a place chosen to be in, a place you find yourself in, a place for the young, old, artistic, traditional, homeless and cash rich. The Cat is a motif, a thread that meanders through each chapter/story. Each chapter is centred around a different person but these people are all connected, knowingly or unknowingly, by the cat or the city or by both.

At first I found The Cat and The City to be calming but intriguing. It was really beautiful to read of the city and the characters we meet with their full and mysterious back stories. However, just before the halfway point we meet Mari. She is an unlikeable character with an unexpected raunchy plotline. Mari's story changed the mood, killed the atmosphere, ruined the magic. From this point on the book was less mysterious and more strange and dark. The sudden turn was jarring and it spoiled my enjoyment of the book.  There was suddenly a sci fi section, a section with photographs and a manga section. 

At the end of the book some of the plotlines had a resolution, others didn't but it felt emotional. The book as a whole ended up being much more intense than I had bargained for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Violence, and Medical content