Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo

35 reviews

sakisreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

I was looking for something short and sweet; I definitely got the former 😂 

The intimacy Sean and Kate encapsulated felt incredibly human and I couldn’t stop reading 😳

IMAGINE A HUMAN AND A WOLF BRAIN LINKING UP LIKE THAT!

I also thoroughly appreciated Riya’s honesty. I know I’ve been Riya before so to watch her go through her and Sean’s relationship was difficult but necessary ❤️ 

I’ll be thinking about this book for a while I think. 4 out of 5 stars for me, thank you ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Injury/Injury detail

lizardgod's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Vomit, Sexual content, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Violence, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Emotional abuse, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism

Minor: Racism and Cursing

laurianeisreading's review

dark fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Animal death and Torture

Minor: Kidnapping

scifi_rat's review

dark reflective tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Sexual content, Animal cruelty, Grief, Cursing, Alcohol, Medical content, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Sexism and Vomit

readingpicnic's review

3.75

Failing sapphic marriages in books make me sooo sad (similar to Our Wives Under the Sea). This story posed very interesting questions about ethics, conservation, and intimacy. The main character was genuinely so morally gray, and I did NOT support most of her behaviors, but my discomfort and disgust with her actions and thoughts also intrigued me. You can see her growth throughout the story as she learns the cost of her selfishness with her work project and her ambivalence towards and unappreciation of her wife. Their relationship was so complicated but felt very real. It gave me hope that after everything, they were still working on it, even though they had both made mistakes and had miscommunications. The wolf scenes were so visceral and strange, but also cool. I could definitely see this type of scenario posed by the book taking place in real life where a big corporation funds something like this in order to monetize it to the masses as a VR experience. What a trip.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Infidelity, Terminal illness, and Sexism

Minor: Racism

mar's review against another edition

sad fast-paced

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

1.5

idk i think this should've gotten more fucked up sorry. i mean i got the themes it was going for - kinship with animals, ethics in science/research, loneliness, repression - but it just fell competely flat for me :/ 

also, very confused as to why this book is labelled as horror - it's unsettling in the way a nonfiction book about climate change is unsettling, but i really wouldn't call it horror. unless you're creeped out by a failing marriage ig

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Gore, and Medical content

Minor: Sexism and Racism

amanda_the_librarian's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

the wolf dies. It’s really sad.

charlotteer's review

dark reflective sad tense 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

3.0

The writing style felt almost lyrical to begin with but towards the middle/end it became more repetitive, with the same words or a similar description used noticeably more than once or twice. 

The plot was interesting and was explored well in its 105 pages but I felt as if it fell short of a few expectations and was a little lack-lustre because of this. 

Overall, a little too monotonous for me but I did enjoy reading it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Medical content

Moderate: Gore, Infidelity, Animal death, Violence, and Vomit

Minor: Sexism, Racism, and Alcohol

blacksphinx's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-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

2.5

First of all, this is NOT a horror novella and I'm not sure why it keeps winding up on lists of horror stories. It is a sci-fi novella focused around a failing marriage between two academics and a research project where our narrator gets to experience what it's like to be a wolf.

Despite not being horror, I think if you liked Our Wives Under The Sea you might like this. It's a different take on "failing sapphic marriage," if you can handle a narrator who is a self-centered racist dick. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Sexual content, Animal death, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Cursing, Grief, Racism, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death

heavster's review

dark emotional sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty