Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Such Sharp Teeth by Rachel Harrison

7 reviews

jcinf's review

challenging dark tense fast-paced

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

4.75

I’m not normally a horror person, but I’ve been trying to diversify my genres. I’m glad I picked this one. It was so good!

One of the characters was so annoying to me. I just wanted to shake them by the shoulders 😅 I couldn’t tell if they were being nonchalant and didn’t care or were trying to be spiteful. 

The descriptions were very well-written. The dialogue was cheeky and witty without being corny. Rory was written like a ~real~ person. With flaws but also redeeming qualities. She didn’t feel superficial at all. 

Just overall a great book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Body horror, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

gia0203's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

picked the signed version up from forbidden planet and very glad I did. a reflective look on womanhood and trauma. how we come to live with our bodies. and sisterhood. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm and Body horror

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Blood, Gore, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Animal death, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Child abuse

booklovingcatmom's review

emotional reflective tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty

vixenreader's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

Not as much of a horror book as it
is a supernatural drama, it still is an engaging read about the how internalized rage and trauma can manifest decades later, and at the most inopportune time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Child abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual violence, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Vomit, Alcohol, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts

There is also excessive vaping, smoking, strained mother/daughter relationships, a childbirth scene and complications during a pregnancy.

kace's review

adventurous dark emotional funny fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Vomit, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Gore, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Violence, Alcohol, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Self harm, Infidelity, Car accident, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

michaelion's review

medium-paced

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

3.0

You tease me with a threesome mention and don't make it gay?! How dare!!!

This could've been werewolf Jennifer's Body! (And I include that as a spoiler because just after I asked myself "Who bit her? Who turned her?" I flipped to the last page to see what the last line of the book is and... well... spoilers for that.)

There's clearly a lot of love for the werewolf genre but the story was just fine. I didn't make the connection to the larger themes until after the sort-of climax. And I mean way after. Like, I was reading the last paragraph of the book. And no, I don't mean the last page of the story, I mean the last paragraph of the Acknowledgements section.

Usually, writers (of books, tv, and movies) put in a plot line including sexual assault as a gimmick, like "Look at me, I can mention a super serious topic so you, the audience, have to take me serious now too." Harrison doesn't do that here, and the conversations between Rory, Mia, and Cyndi are treated with care and respect, but the connection between transforming and raging and healing from previous anger wasn't really there for me, until I read that last bit about how The Body Keeps the Score was an influence.

I have never really been a werewolf girlie, but I did watch Teen Wolf all the way through even when it got bad. Those are some of the most exciting and fun parts of the book, even when it gets a little spooky scary ew that's gross.

It's also kinda written like there was room given for a sequel? If that's the case, the book is good enough that I would read that too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Pedophilia, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Incest, Body horror, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, Violence, Vomit, Physical abuse, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Infidelity

pinkupengu's review

dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body horror, Cursing, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Confinement, Blood, Death, and Child abuse