Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

4 reviews

autumndjarin's review

The cruelty and violence was too extreme.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death

princess_marie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Torture, Death, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs, Suicide, and Self harm

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Animal cruelty, and Domestic abuse

chughes5's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Classism, Death, Physical abuse, Medical trauma, Gore, Cursing, Body horror, Blood, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Grief

Minor: Death of parent, Animal death, and Animal cruelty

jalexpulliamkepler's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective 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

4.75

An absolute gut punch of a novel with possibly the best ending I’ve ever read. Loses just a smidge for some craft issues that are more than understandable given that this is Adjei-Brenyah’s debut novel.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Police brutality, Grief, Homophobia, Violence, Mental illness, Cursing, Death, Sexism, Slavery, Suicide, Classism, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Gore, Child abuse, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, Lesbophobia, Sexual assault, Deportation, Sexual harassment, Ableism, Alcohol, and Car accident

Minor: Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Chronic illness