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haleydoeshairs's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment
alex_likesbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Infertility, Miscarriage, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail
yesbethhh92's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Wow wow wow. This was incredible.
In Animal, Joan flees New York after witnessing a horrible act of violence. From there we follow her to Los Angeles, where she seeks out a woman named Alice for reasons that are slowly uncovered.
Joan reflects back on her life since childhood, recalling her relationship with her parents and a traumatic experience that affected the rest of her life and dictated all her future relationships with women and men.
This book is about the entitlement, cruelty and entitlement of men, and how this manifests in women as pain, rage and madness.
I could feel the primal rage growing in me as I read this book, and the tension kept building to an emotional and devastating end.
Lisa Taddeo is a master with words, and I love the way she created parallels between the stories of the different characters.
I loved this so so so much. I wasn’t sure about it early on, and took some breaks from it because it’s quite slow in the earlier chapters. But once it gets going, it really gets going, and by the end I was crying.
I highly recommend this but check trigger warnings first as there as some graphic parts.
“It was my father who had driven my mother mad. But once again, mad is not right. The world had set me up to believe that it was women who went mad. It was simply women's pain that manifested as madness.”
Graphic: Child abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Death of parent, and Murder
clairebartholomew549's review against another edition
- 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
3.0
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Infertility, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment
matlock's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Graphic: Death and Death of parent
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Dementia, and Sexual harassment
Minor: Dementia
hanltosh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Blood, Abortion, Death of parent, and Murder
itsbilliam's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Death, Drug use, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Dementia, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship
laurenhannah217's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Infidelity
annabel98's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Please, please read the content warnings, and understand they are very graphic.
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy
paigem4rrie's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail