Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Among the Beasts & Briars by Ashley Poston

13 reviews

tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Grief

geilie's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Animal death, and Body horror

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

book_siren's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death of parent, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, War, Body horror, Abandonment, Murder, Violence, Confinement, Death, Genocide, and Kidnapping

thoughtsontomes's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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? Yes

4.0

I ended up really enjoying this since it had so many things that I love in books. This is a creepy sentient forest with body horror elements and a main character that has nature magic, so that's always going to be a hit for me. Her best friend is a fox, and I love foxes. There are elements that I kind of predicted but then the author went about them in a way that was really cool. I also appreciate how she makes the world inclusive and not homophobic. Although the main couple is straight, there are lots of casual mentions of gay side characters and there is not opposition in world to that. I enjoyed both POVs in this story, and my only complaint is that it wrapped up a bit quickly and easily when there should have been more consequences for some of the things that happened. There are also some scenes that happen after the end of the book as extras that imply more stories could happen in this world following different characters, and I'd love to see those!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Death of parent and Child death

iamkallia's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

brookey8888's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed this. I didn’t guess a plot twist in the first like three pages of the book but that didn’t bother me. I just really liked our characters. I thought they were funny and I really like the chemistry I’m a fucker for romance. I felt the story was interesting and kept me engaged. It kind of reminded me of the bone houses but better. I also love the diversity for sexuality’s in this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, and Animal death

joisaddler's review

adventurous dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Grief, Gore, Murder, and Violence

ashleycmms's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Self harm

caitlindee's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I enjoyed this so much! A great, fast-paced, standalone fantasy with some wonderful characters and a unique world. I thought the writing style was great, the world-building was clear but not info-dumping, and the character/relationship development was done very well!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Gore

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Animal death

diana_barv's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

2.75

I picked this book up for the storygraph challenge; it was supposed to be a book catered to my main moods: dark, adventurous and mysterious. And yes, I got magic, an enchanted forest, curses, a prince and princess, a girl who gets to be more than what she thought she could be and all that bass. It even fitted a wlw couple by the end (albeit way to briefly it almost felt like an afterthought). But all in all... I didn’t like it. It was fast, way to fast at times. The climax left me like ... that was it? And the aftermath was all off page. And it was a relatively short time to fix all that mess. It had a lot of blood, tbh I was worried Cerys was gonna bleed out! The romance... it could have been very good but it felt so flat to me. And most of the plot twists were totally predictable. I didn’t like that Cerys kept saying she was just a gardener’s daughter! And yeah, lots of plot holes. Perhaps a younger version of me would have loved it, but I am afraid to admit that I’ve definitely outgrew YA by now :c

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Grief