Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Jedyni dobrzy Indianie by Stephen Graham Jones

344 reviews

serenedancer's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

It took me a bit to get into the book, but once I was in I was hooked. I really enjoyed it.

The horror is well done but not too gruesome. Even as someone who has aphantasia it was still effective. Overall I would recommend the book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Racism

farmpaws's review against another edition

5.0

Absolutely incredible 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Gore, and Violence

ticklemetiff's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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? Yes

3.25

If you can’t handle animals brutally dying, this is not the book for you. If you aren’t a fan of basketball, this is not the book for you. It wasn’t a bad book, I just couldn’t get behind all the animal brutality. & that’s a me problem I guess. How the antagonist is set up is pretty cool, it was a little confusing in the beginning. I think switching between main characters so early on threw me off for a minute. But again, probably just a me problem. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, and Cultural appropriation

meagand's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.5

I found three guys who were the main characters hard to sympathize with at times, though I liked all the women. The animal violence is pretty graphic and keeps coming up. Like another reviewer said, justice for Harley! Oh and there’s like so much basketball talk! Like a lot of basketball. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

throwback682's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The ending was a tearjerker for me. 

Shout out to Chuck Tingle for introducing me to this author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

kellsbells374's review against another edition

challenging emotional 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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

In terms of craft, I think this book is really well done. I have two things that held me back from giving this 5 stars. 
1. The pace felt a little off at times. I think it came from switching between "protagonists" but it took me out of the story a bit. 
2. For a book that had sortve a revenge plot where a female character was exacting revenge on men who did something shitty, there certainly were a LOT of women who got killed (horribly) as collateral damage. I feel like that maybe fit the horror genre but it kept making me frustrated because I couldn't relate to the "antagonist" destroying all these women almost as pawns or punishment for the men. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism

refrejarator's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.25

The first I've ever read by Jones. Holy hell. It was devastating, it was brutal, and painted a horror story vastly different from any I'd ever read before. Had me freaked out from the first chapter, which is very rare for me! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Book is written from perspective of Blackfeet Native Americans and therefore includes racism, police brutality, and the impact of genocide and colonisation that is still felt by Indigenous peoples today.

wispy_reviews's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Racial slurs, Racism, and Death of parent

heynonnynonnie's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.0

A decade after a hunting transgression, a supernatural entity haunts a group of Blackfeet men and starts taking them and their loved ones out one by one. 

This was very meh for me. I love the concept. I mean, indigenous supernatural karmic war sounds metal as hell for a horror book, and the first chapter smashed my expectations. It's a perfect combination of concept, style, and pacing. But the next 100 or so pages moves at such a slow pace before giving the reader sporadic moments of action. The voice takes some effort to fully appreciate and can be cumbersome during the slower parts of the story. I didn't care for the basketball scenes and their inclusion left me confused. I'm holding out hope for this author's other works because there were several chapters that were 5 star standalones for me, and I'm so in love with the concepts from his books.  

TW: Animal death (hunting and pets), animal cruelty, murder, gore, violence, racism

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Racism, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, and Alcohol

chriswoody94's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Suicide, Violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Drug use