Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones

53 reviews

k_rose95's review

dark emotional slow-paced

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

5.0

I like the way SGJ wrote this. It's written like an extended thought. 

I liked the characters, the lore of werewolves, and the ending most of all. Wasn't what I was expecting but it was so good 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Gore, and Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism and Alcohol

drossg's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

I’m not much of a horror guy, but I really enjoyed what this book was using horror to do and the more I think about it the more I like it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Grief and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying

nicosta_music's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

As someone who is a connoisseur of werewolf novels, Mongrels immediately became one of my favorites. It starts off pretty slow and unremarkable as far as these kinds of books go, but by the end I was absolutely in love. The book has such strong and hard-hitting themes about human (or I guess non-human) nature and about how you define yourself, especially by those you surround yourself with. This book is definitely gory and brutal and doesn't pull any punches, but it performs in a way that really hammers home the wisdom it is imparting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, Rape, Medical content, and Alcohol

Minor: Bullying and Vomit

apestforwrens's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful slow-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

4.75

This is th best werewolf story I’ve ever seen. SGJ, as always, puts you right in the main character’s head and knows exactly what to write to get an emotional response.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

directorpurry's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Blood

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

mochimustreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, and Violence

holly_117's review against another edition

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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Gore

outerscout's review

adventurous emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.75

found this veeery slow and hard to get into to the point where i kept putting it down for other books over 2 months, but then the ending made me cry a ton. writing is a bit difficult to visualize sometimes, something i noticed continues into the only good indians but found much improved by my heart is a chainsaw. wish there was more build-up to the main twist (?) re:

the externimation company's werewolf piss slavery

but the last part of the book was much more engaging, and love a good framing device reveal. i feel like i'd enjoy it more on a reread

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Confinement

Moderate: Torture, Cannibalism, and Alcohol

badgersorbet's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

jiggityjog's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

I thought this novel was a very unique, in-depth, & personal take on the classic werewolf tale, a horror sub-genre that I had considered played out (for the most part) prior to reading this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Animal cruelty

If animal death particularly bothers you, you may want to pass on this book because there is a fair amount of it throughout.