Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman

76 reviews

acesiever's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Child abuse

unsighted_reader's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

hotbitch's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

mxpringle's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

This book definitely didn't live up to my expectations I had of Alice Oseman after reading Heartstopper, but it was still really powerful. I found a lot of the ways that the novel represented mental health and emotional abuse to be subtle, yet ultimately very heart rendering because of their subtlety. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Minor: Racism, Suicide, and Acephobia/Arophobia

cookiecat73's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.5

This was my first novel by Alice Oseman (although I've read heartstopper online), and I really liked it!

Something I wasn't really aware of going into the book was that a main part of the plot revolves around things happening online, and a youtube channel called universe city, and if I'm honest, it was my least favourite part. I loved the characters, but I found all the internet drama a bit too overdramatic and although the plot was good, I think I would have enjoyed it more if it was less over-the-top. I also found it a little too fast paced? I think some of the emotional scenes could have done with a little more time, things could feel a little rushed at times, or there was a time-jump which I felt skipped over too much.
The characters were definitely my favourite part, I thought they were all really good.
Some thoughts on the ending:

I think I would have prefered the ending to have been a more low-key scene with just the friends hanging out and recovering and healing and starting to thrive and re-adjust to the new lives they're building for themselves, rather than another dramatic scene with Aled's internet fame being the happy ending, although I did like the way it was done. I was also sort of hoping Aled was going to come out as non-binary at the end, becuase he often mentions how much he relates to radio and feels like he is radio, and radio is agender. Also with the whole hair thing. Again, I'm okay with how it ended, I just would have liked that :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Drug use, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual content

abrokenmirror's review against another edition

emotional hopeful

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Alcohol

Moderate: Animal death, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Confinement, Eating disorder, Homophobia, and Gaslighting

wa1t's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

bumblemee's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This is my favourite book for a lot of reasons. A few of them include:
- the phrase "I'm platonically in love with you."
- having a friendship as the most important relationship in general
- the very relatable struggle of not knowing what to do with your life, what you want from it and feeling lost
- starting my love for fiction podcasts

... I will leave it at that because I still don't know how to put my love for this book into proper words. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

readsbygillian's review against another edition

adventurous reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

This is a great coming out of age book that hits me where it's supposed to hit me. I'm nearly 27 years old, yet the struggles and emotional trauma and self sabotaging trait of characters relates to my life as no longer a young adult. Funny how that happened. It had so much potential beginning to middle but ending was not just for me. It couldve done better. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty

alice451's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death