Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois

10 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

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

lizardgod's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Physical abuse and Sexual assault

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

deirdrizzle's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

I don't generally get a physical reaction from reading, but the last 10% or so had me feeling nauseous. It's time for a light, fluffy palate cleanser. 

Having taught first grade, the kids were completely unrealistic. Their thoughts and actions took me out of the story a bit.

The calm narrator of the audiobook made this even more unsettling.  I highly recommend listening to this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death and Gore

Moderate: Animal death, Excrement, and Vomit

noonanjohnc's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Grief, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Car accident, and Alcohol

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

chloseencounter's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I don’t know what I was expecting, I went into this read pretty blind to what it was about. I’m not sure what I thought it was going to be, but definitely not what it was…

This novel was beautifully written and brutal, the descriptions of graphic violence where some of the most agonizing and genuine I’ve ever read but that’s sort of all this story had to offer. I kept waiting for there to be some sort of lesson or point to the brutality but there just wasn’t. I just keep coming back to the why of it all. You may expect a story to have a plot, or a lesson, or even be a character study but to me, it just wasn’t any of those things. I suppose it was meaning to stand for loss of innocence but I didn’t even get enough time and introspection with each character to see that. I suppose if anything the ending was…ironic, I guess.

The hunter becomes the hunted.

I don’t think of myself as someone who is bothered by violence but also I don’t really find joy in reading about the terrible and upsetting deaths of six year olds, one after another…and for what? Was it some weird metaphor for Darwinism? I honestly have no idea and at the end of the day that left me with a lot to be desired. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, 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

piaschj's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

2.75

I liked the beginning and it set up. However Mid way through and to the end was quite boring. Its weird to call a book about murderous killing children boring, but here We are. I did like the breaking of the fourth wall and the author reminding me that everyone in this book are children. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, and Murder