Animal

Lisa Taddeo

2021 • 401 pages

Ratings30

Average rating3.2

'Joan is an unforgettable anti-heroine. I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about her' Elizabeth Day 'So insanely good and true and twisted it'll make your teeth sweat' Olivia Wilde 'Like a series of grenades exploding' Marian Keyes I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig. That's a cruel thing to think, I know. He did it in a restaurant where I was having dinner with another man, another married man. Do you see how this is going? But I wasn't always that way. I am depraved. I hope you like me. ------------ A 2021 Highlight for: Guardian - Sunday Express - Independent - New Statesman - Evening Standard - Cosmopolitan - Red - Grazia - Daily Mail - Daily Express - The Week - Irish Times - i - The Sun

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Brenna

One sentence synopsis... Thirty, flirty, and not-so-thriving Joan narrates her descent into depravity after one too many traumatic events push her over the edge.

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Read it if you like... ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation' or ‘Luster'.

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Dream casting... Allison Williams, Alexandra Daddario, or Leighton Meester as Joan.

July 26, 2021

3.5

July 20, 2021

Beth

This book wasn't for me. Taddeo is an extremely talented writer and I found the first half of the book compelling and darkly engrossing. But I found the book became too much for me in the last 10%. Personally I found it too provocative and gratuitous.

Trigger warnings for murder, multiple scenes of rape and sexual assault as well as scenes of very harrowing violence. For example this book contains a description of a miscarriage and a vivid description of a crime scene. If these things are too triggering for you just be warned.

Thanks to the author Lisa Taddeo, Bloomsbury and Netgalley for a review copy in exchange for an honest review.

May 7, 2021

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