Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin

2 reviews

ivylovesbirds's review

tense fast-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

2.5

The “protagonist” has so many insights about existentialism and how it applies to her, other humans, and her pet. She realizes that she is an animal, and that aliens could see humans as animals and exploit them, and that animals experience deep emotion, and yet, the animals that she eats are purely inanimate objects to her that she continues to exploit nonchalantly. She thinks birds and pigs are magical and that animal lives matter in one thought and complains about how the dead bird she’s about to eat has veins in the next. It’s so uncomfortable reading about her cognitive dissonance. I was hoping her obsession with death and suffering would at least lead her to sympathize with non-human animals, but nope. She has to be the most annoying, hateable “protagonist” in any book I’ve ever read and I say this as someone who has struggled with similar mental health issues. This book felt way too millennial to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Vegans may want to avoid this book.

fiekesfiction's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Homophobia