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Tigers, Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

7 reviews

guessgreenleaf's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Grief

Moderate: Violence, Sexual content, and Mental illness

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Child death

maggiejayh's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

i wish i could rate this higher. this is so genuinely heartwrenching and BEAUTIFUL and so fucking lovely 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Sexual harassment

nitya's review

emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

Read for MLIS elective

Not what I expected but I am not complaining!

Content warning: domestic abuse, death of sibling, hair horror (for me, I am still gagging), animal death, car accident

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Domestic abuse, and Car accident

Moderate: Violence and Animal death

cmriordan's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Grief, Death, and Violence

Minor: Sexual content

azyef's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Animal death

Moderate: Suicide, Gore, Death of parent, Death, and Car accident

marywahlmeierbracciano's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Tigers, Not Daughters is the stunning tale of four young Latina sisters in Texas, told through the eyes of the naïve, voyeuristic boys across the street, and from the girls’ own perspectives as well.  A year after the death of the eldest sister, Ana, her sisters are hollow, their spirits choked by their unreliable and emotionally abusive father.  Ana returns as a ghost, haunting each of her sisters in a different way—each sister unique in her grief, developed so fully that they burst off the page.  Mabry leaves a few threads running unresolved in the very best way at the close of this precious story woven with magical realism.  I’ve never chosen an audiobook solely on the basis of its narrator, but after listening to Luis Moreno’s exquisite narration of this book, I now have reason to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Car accident, Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Animal death and Pregnancy

bronsonmh's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

 I thought this was such a powerful read about sisterhood and how the bound can never be broken even when there is a time when things are drifting apart. The Torres sisters had each other to look after while living with an abusive type father. Who was controlling and wanted the daughters all to himself. Then one night the eldest daughter Ana accidentally dies when falling down a tree while climbing from her window. Then a year later the sisters can sense Ana is back in the house. Her ghost is haunting them. I love the different points of views from the sisters to piece together their lives and how they are trying to move on from Ana's death. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, and Violence