Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann

15 reviews

pvp_niki's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Bullying, Death, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

renreadsbooks's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

3.75

really unsure how to rate this. very beautiful artwork and deeply disturbing with many questions unanswered. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Child death, Animal death, Body horror, and Murder

melancholymegs's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Child death, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Gore

Moderate: Murder, Toxic friendship, Violence, Torture, Blood, Car accident, and Body horror

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, and Fire/Fire injury

ohboysidd's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Cannibalism

wyabook234's review

adventurous dark fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Murder, Blood, and Cannibalism

tea_at_mole_end's review

dark

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, Child death, Animal cruelty, Vomit, Murder, Death, and Animal death

chandlerkl's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Animal cruelty, Gore, Child death, and Violence

spooderman's review

dark mysterious reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Classism, Colonisation, Grief, Torture, Gaslighting, Gore, Slavery, Toxic friendship, Violence, Death, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Minor: Eating disorder, Kidnapping, Genocide, Fire/Fire injury, and Dysphoria

thebetterstory's review

dark sad fast-paced

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

3.25

I don't really know what to make of this one. It succeeds at being cruel and strange and disturbing, which is perhaps all you should ask from a horror story. The characters are painted as broadly and with as little depth as you'd expect from a fairy tale, and you hardly have time to feel anything about them before they're killed off. The art, however, is lovely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal cruelty, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Ableism

ce_read's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Listen, not all books have or are meant to have a "plot." Just enjoy it for what it is.

I appreciated that I didn't feel like I was being forced to come to any particular conclusions about right and wrong, kind of like... how the natural world is sometimes just brutal and so are humans (because humans are also nature, plot twist!)

I actively laughed out loud at the consequences of the little person who tried to get food by pretending to be a baby bird.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Confinement, Murder, Outing, Animal cruelty, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Ableism, Body horror, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore