Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman

8 reviews

directorpurry's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Kidnapping, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, Suicide attempt, and War

Minor: Child abuse, Miscarriage, and Death of parent

againanew's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Wow. Excellently written and extremely creative. Also very dark and doesn't hold back.  I read horror like it's going out of style but I'm rarely satisfied. This is absolutely in my top three, ever. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism

Moderate: Animal death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, and Slavery

Minor: Murder and War

charmarie's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Enjoyed the atmosphere and overall vibes of the story - didn't enjoy the portrayal of women or people of color. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death

jess2obsess's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual assault, and Death of parent

akmay17's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

3.0

Overall, I thought this was good book with good enough writing and an interesting premise/plot. 

However, it takes place in the 30s, and the characters certainly speak like it — and by that I mean, they’re racist. Even if that character is not, like, extremely racist, they use the n-word, and there’s at least one anti-Semitic comment as well. These parts were hard to read and, to me, often felt unnecessary even it was “true” to the historic time period. I wanted to mention if that’s just not something you want to be reading. 

There’s also a racist trope presumably unintentionally used—

of a black man preying on/raping a white women—read more about the history of this of you don’t understand this has a racist stereotype/trope

as well as a few other uncomfortable depictions and passages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Gore, Infidelity, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, and Cannibalism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Hate crime, Miscarriage, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Alcohol

witheringghoul's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

1.75

I really wanted to like this book but to be honest it gave the wrong predator vibes, if you know what I mean. It’s just not for me and I also hate it so there’s that. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

I want to say there’s pedophilia but there really isn’t, the main character is just a creep and flirts with a child.

portabello_pig's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Racism, Violence, and War

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Medical trauma

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Excrement

whatathymeitwas's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

4.0

I'm not usually into books of this particular supernatural topic, but I finished this one in a day. Fantastic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Medical content, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Minor: Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Antisemitism, and Death of parent