Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois

13 reviews

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

3.5

if you can suspend your belief and just enjoy this gory and unrealistic lord of the flies parody, this isn’t a bad book. a lot of it is implausible but if you can look past that and just read, this is fine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

thebookcloser's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

This book was everything I imagined and more. 😍 If you loved Lord of the Flies, this book is your gold mine. LOTS is a modern take on this classic but I would say the darker, adult version. 

I saw many reviews on Goodreads that poorly rated this book because you had to “suspend your disbelief.” This is a true horror book in every form and those that rated based on that missed the point of this book. 

For another reader to get the same “wow” factor it gave me.. I can’t spoil, but if this book peaks your interest know the themes are deep and they are the biggest takeaway from the story which is why I picked it up to begin with. 🖤

Lastly, the writing style is unique. There is no “chapters,” there are obvious “breaks.” POVs would jump sometimes between paragraphs but it became easy to follow once I understood. I actually enjoyed it. 😊

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty

wholesome_chaotic's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

2.0

The description of the audiobook advertised Winnie the Pooh meets Blair Witch.

This is neither of those things.

What I got was a sadistic remix of Lord of the Flies. The morals and commentary ripped out only to be replaced with a thumping of violence, stupidity and the feeling it's saying more than it actually is.

The ending of the book is quite possibly worth the read/listen because it just veers left enough to be surprising.

This book also contains some of the STUPIDEST adults I've ever experienced in a book. Maybe the book was trying to say adults aren't that different from children when faced with horrible situations. However, this goes beyond just adults making mistakes. They were just dumb.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Sexual assault, and Violence

anissawren's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Car accident, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Fatphobia, Infidelity, and Death of parent

eb10's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

cabrera_bre's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, and Murder

pierreadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Animal cruelty, Excrement, Vomit, and Alcohol

enchantressreads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Excrement, Vomit, and Car accident

Minor: Animal cruelty and Child abuse

jackiesspookyshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

mellowreading's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

1.75

this book,,,, a flop lol. It somehow managed to be both fast paced and slow paced, everything happened so quickly but it DRAGGED. The author had beautiful writing at times, really good descriptions of nature, but prettiness doesn't matter when it serves no purpose, drags, and just makes things more convoluted. I was so bored with this book. The transitions from perspective to perspective were so confusing for no reason. The author needs help organizing their thoughts - this book could have been much better with some editing. People looking for an edgy slasher will be lost in the wordiness. As for the slasher element - this book, despite being about child death lmao, was nowhere near the most shocking/horrific/gross/tense thing Ive ever read, because it was 1. ridiculous and 2. had no stakes. We are thrown straight into the plot without time to care about the characters and whats going on, or establish any suspense. This book can't even be marked as super edgy or horrific for dealing with the death of children, because they didnt FEEL like children. They felt like pretentious middle aged poets lmao. No kid talks or thinks like that. I finished this book because I heard the end was shocking and terrifying but i was bored halfway through the description of Enzo being eaten alive. It was kind of goofy. Earlier in the book, a kid runs into a tree branch (at child speed) and breaks his legs, gets his face ripped off, dislocates his shoulder and instantly dies, and Enzo gets his legs, face, arm, etc slowly eaten by a wild animal and lives through it???? ok lol. this book was dumb and a drag. i gave it a 1.75 because the writing could have been very nice, if the author wasn't so flowery and long-winded. This book isnt even worth reading to push the limits of what you can stomach on a horror perspective - the grossest part of this book was the description of the woman shitting in the very beginning. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Gore, Violence, Vomit, Car accident, and Murder