Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets

129 reviews

nathanielcrossinggum's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional fast-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

2.75

Okay maybe 2.75 is a little harsh I was just kinda left with a "meh" feeling about this one. It's very confronting and genuinely does make me feel for the people who had to work here and does present interesting relationships between this people as they're slowly radicalised. I just found a lot of the substance to be quite.... Meh. 
The characters are not very likeable. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. You don't need likeable characters for a good story. But I just feel that I needed to find someone likeable. Or at least interesting. But they truly do just represent the worst of western politics. Apathetic or entirely radicalised in the wrong direction (the fascist direction).
Maybe in its original language this is a much better, more craftfully told story but as the translation, I just think the writing was not doing its job. Short stories like this need to be much more interesting and I'm sick of short novellas like this where the vibe is "bleh, humanity is horrible and here are some horrible humans" and the writer doesn't even bother to make the writing good.
Again, perhaps the original language version is better but this just left me feeling... Bleh. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racism, Self harm, and Antisemitism

charnewb's review against another edition

challenging dark sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Minor: Eating disorder

theprinceofdenmark's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

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

this is a morality play about how the Internet is bad. the thesis of this is apparently

seeing disturbing content on facebook makes you into a rapist.

befuddling to say the least!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Antisemitism, and Injury/Injury detail

will0wh's review against another edition

dark reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

I find the topic of the book very interesting, I like how it explored issues of desensitisation and trauma. I feel it could have been longer to fully explore the topics but I like how it was done.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Xenophobia

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Antisemitism, Religious bigotry, and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse

This book has basically every content warning, not particularly graphic but upsetting scenarios are spoken about frequently

bookbird's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Antisemitism, and Alcohol

stellahadz's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.25

While the premise of this book was interesting, the story felt incomplete. It had a lot of potential, but it didn't quite live up to it, in my opinion. The ending felt like it came out of nowhere. I would've liked for it to be longer, with more time and space to flesh out the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Antisemitism

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Homophobia, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Blood, Stalking, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

wowsmeows's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Stalking, Gaslighting, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

kurumipanda's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Self harm, Suicide, Antisemitism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Stalking, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use

izypup's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

4.75

While there is a lot of content warnings for this book, it’s a lot less graphic than what it seems to be made out to be when I saw reviews. It is primarily an insight on the effects of being desensitized/over-exposed to disturbing media online than about discussing the disturbing media. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Racial slurs

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Antisemitism, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

lesemauuus's review against another edition

challenging tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Self harm

Moderate: Mental illness