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emilyandthewhippet's review against another edition
4.0
Perhaps I'd built this book up too much in my head. After all, it's on a subject I find so interesting and I've had it on my shelf a good four years before it was read. It was slow and I found myself disappointed that the book neatly finished, only to start yet ANOTHER chapter. I wouldn't read it again.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Depression, antidepressants, hunting, hunting of animals, guns, misogynyabi_sarah's review against another edition
4.0
It felt so genuine and full of raw emotion throughout. Helen’s writing about her experiences of raising/ training a Goshawk whilst going through grief and depression was so refreshing to read, because there wasn’t any big underlying philosophical meaning. It was just a honest account of a woman’s difficult period of her life and how she coped.
I want to read more books like this, I loved visualising myself out and about with Helen and Mabel (the goshawk) just living and being.
Graphic: Death and Grief
zoinkie's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood, and Death of parent
ashenlar's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, and Death of parent
rcsreads's review
3.5
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Blood, and Death of parent
Minor: Injury/Injury detail
mandkips's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Animal death, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, and Mental illness
Minor: Blood
kilonshele's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Death
ehmannky's review against another edition
4.0
There were parts (especially some of the falconry parts) where I felt myself just sort of skimming, but then they'd be followed by moments of grief I felt were so relatable that I had to put my book down for a moment before I could continue reading. It's a lovely book, and I recommend it to others who are grieving but are put off by the overwhelmingly Christian religious grief-coping books.
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent
amberinbookland's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Grief, and Death of parent
jenlovesbooksandcoffee's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Pedophilia, Antisemitism, and Abandonment