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Honestly, sometimes I think it’s the only recourse. Killing men in times like these.
Joan has spent a lifetime enduring the cruel acts of men. But when one of them commits a shocking act of violence in front of her, she flees New York City in search of Alice, the only person alive who can help her make sense of her past. In the sweltering hills above Los Angeles, Joan u...more
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Published June 8th 2021 by Avid Reader Press / Simon Schuster
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SchuylerThis is a false equivalency. Women are not equal citizens and violence against women by men, FAR outweighs violence against men by women.
Until these …moreThis is a false equivalency. Women are not equal citizens and violence against women by men, FAR outweighs violence against men by women.
Until these things are no longer true, your argument FAILS.(less)
ValerieNope - it's boring. There are some moments of lovely writing but all you get is horrible people coming in contact with more horrible people. …moreNope - it's boring. There are some moments of lovely writing but all you get is horrible people coming in contact with more horrible people. (less)
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Ok... Wow. Now I know why this book is getting so much advanced praise.
ANIMAL is a VERY dark story about rage, power, control and abuse.
Protagonist Joan is such a complex character. Sometimes she's a victim. Sometimes she's the perpetrator. She seems to crave love and respect but knowingly looks in the wrong places and then her disappointment fuels her anger.
As the story unfolded I did sympathize with her but she still terrifies me!
Clearly Taddeo is a skilled writer and this book really hurt...more
May 12, 2021Matt rated it it was amazing
“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…”
- Lisa Taddeo, Animal
Animal is a heck of a literary experience, one of those rare novels that I actually seemed to feel. It’s not simply that Lisa Taddeo lands her emotional punches, though she certainly does. It’s also the way the sudden plot turns – as things go from worse to worser at warp speed – induce a sensation of whiplash, ...more
May 09, 2021Elle rated it it was ok
I’ll be honest, I’m disappointed. Even with the tempered expectations I went into Animal with, I still felt like I was deprived of what could have been a much better book. I’ve seen a lot of positive reviews here for this one, and that’s fine, we all have different opinions. But after giving it some thought there’s no way I can give a book that I have actively warned so many of my friends from reading a higher rating than this. To kick things off, let’s start with this quote:
“I am depraved. I ho...more
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Apr 02, 2021Andrew Smith rated it it was amazing
A violent death causes Joan, an unmarried thirty six year old woman, to leave New York City and head for Los Angeles. We’re not initially sure why she’s headed to L.A. in particular, but she’s clearly led a disturbed life and sees this latest incident as simply the final affront - she’s gone from this city. Her parents had died when she was only ten years old and she was subsequently brought up by an aunt, though in a way that lent her a good deal of freedom. When she had money she spent it and ...more
Apr 27, 2021Emily B rated it liked it · review of another edition
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for a copy of this book.
Up until 75% I felt very detached and indifferent about this book. I know the past of the protagonist was meant to be mysterious and revealed slowly but i don’t think it had the intended affect on me as i didn’t care too much and felt disorientated if anything. After 75% thing finally start to make sense and I started to enjoy it. I also started to appreciate the plot as a whole.
I usually love depraved, emotional, traumatised pr...more
Jul 03, 2021Kay rated it liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, audiobook, psychological-thriller, 3k-book-a-thon-jul, library-p, libby
Holy Moly!
This is such a strange book to rate and review. Joan isn't your typical protagonist. I don't even know if I like her... Joan is insecure, sex-obsessed, hungry for love and acceptance. She's a victim and she's not. This is dark and I feel her rage.
I have a whirlwind experience listening to this book. I couldn't stop listening to this wonderful narration by Emma Roberts, but when I did, I don't feel like picking up where I left off. Maybe I was unsure if I can handle more disturbing sc...more
Aug 02, 2021Elyse Walters rated it it was amazing
Shelves: abuse, audiobook, family-history, feminism, sexuality, contemporary-fiction, great-discussion-pick, women, adventures
Audiobook…narrated by Emma Robert’s
…10 hours and 48 minutes
Lisa Taddeo’s, novel, “Three Women”….didn’t impress me. “Animal” does.
It’s all about Joan. Joan. Joan. Joan! “Depraved”….JOAN!
….. a little narcissistic, perhaps…..[Joan is 36 yrs old. and single]
….Joan had a horrific childhood: parents died when she was 10 years of [and we learn of a horrific childhood event later in the novel]….
It’s Filled with rage….but the rage unravels through distorted behaviors.
we read about….
….men, sex, men...more
Jun 16, 2021Trudie rated it it was ok
Damaged and perplexing female narrators seem to be all the rage in literature at the moment. I am thinking particularly of the unnamed narrator from Otessa Moshfeghs My Year of Rest and Relaxation, or Edi and her disastrous love life from Raven Leilani's recent book Luster. Rage is the operative word here when we consider Lisa Taddeo's debut novel Animal .
Restrained is not an adjective to be applied to this story, rather this is a plaintive howl to the messy landscape of male-female relationsh...more
Well, I can honestly say this harsh, stunning, stimulating work of the author is an intense punch to the gut and not for everyone’s cup of tea! It’s bold, it’s direct, it’s complex, it’s thought provoking and it’s truly disturbing!
It is about boiling anger restrained by the anti heroine for years of mental, physical abuse, neglect that drag her to form so much dysfunctional relationship patterns. At the end she makes so many worst choices which result with more self destructive, hurt and fury! ...more
Jun 24, 2021MissBecka Gee rated it did not like it
Shelves: kindle-already-done, netgalley-books-read, 2021-books-i-read
Ugh. I have been giving myself pep talks just to keep picking this up.
I am giving up and moving on to (what I hope) will be a more enjoyable book.
I hate the writing style, hate the MC, and just cannot get into it at all.
It's a shame too, because I adore unstable (and totally bananas) characters normally.
Thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster Canada for my DRC....more
May 16, 2021Max rated it really liked it
From what I've heard, this has been a pretty controversial one on Goodreads. Animal is difficult to sort into a single genre or sum up in a single sentence because it's completely unpredictable. The writing jumps around a lot, but I couldn't help think that it perfectly suited the story.
The synopsis immediately reminded me of the recently released Promising Young Woman movie with Carey Mulligan, but Animal proved to be a much darker and disturbing story. Joan's narration is consistently interes...more
Jun 20, 2021Elaine rated it it was ok
Shelves: g-adult-fiction, pd-contemporary, subj-social-issues, drama, 2-stars, audiobook, subj-heavy-rp-scd-fv, sg-mental, this-author-is-not-for-me, sg-literary-brain-food
I feel like I need a shower. This whole book was seedy and gross, and I'm sorry I read it....more
Nov 19, 2020Megan Bell rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
In 2019, I sat down to read Lisa Taddeo’s debut nonfiction account of the desire and sexual lives of three women and read it all in one compulsive and breathless sitting. Three Women’s fans around the world will want to take that seat again, because Animal, Taddeo’s new and debut novel, will blow them off their feet.
Animal opens with Joan, its anti-heroine and a jaded survivor, witnessing a shocking and public act of violence by a former lover. This act propels Joan across the country as she tr...more
Jun 08, 2021Kristen (kraysbookclub) rated it did not like it
Nope. Just no.
I’ll write a review when I’m not raging over the last few scenes of this book. I’m sorry. What the fuck was that.
Review (kind of):
So it’s been no secret that this book was not working for me. This is true trauma porn to its core. Dehumanizing actual tragedies in people’s lives and writing them with emotion lacking detail is not something that I would ever enjoy. I’m not a trigger warning slinging kinda gal, but for anyone who has suffered pregnancy loss or anything related, messag...more
Mar 08, 2021Krista rated it really liked it
We were all over each other. We kissed like animals. We knocked into my stupid liquor shelf and it wobbled and in particular I noticed the Rémy Martin on the shelf. It had belonged to my parents and I never touched it or let anyone else touch it. But in the near future, I would let him drink it. Afterward, we were practicing a few yoga positions together, downward dog into crow jumping back into chaturanga, when his cell phone rang. His breathing was heavy but he clipped it somehow: Hey, hone
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Aug 14, 2021Pat rated it did not like it
I think I read enough of this (between a third and half) to give it a rating. But I had to DNF, I was just bored senseless with it. None of it made any sense.
This was a library ebook loan which I had been looking forward to. Maybe I missed the best parts but I think I’ll get over it!
Re: The 1 star review by professional reader 'Merricat.' I left this comment on her review and she deleted it, which only underscores the validity of my comment
This is an intellectually dishonest review. The tragedies “Merricat” cherrypicks without context for her review happen in life (all too frequently). It is, in fact, the very reason that they are triggering. Trauma and horror are used in art and fiction to create empathy and understanding for audiences with limited experience of the world ...more
Apr 23, 2021Cortney LaScola - The Bookworm Myrtle Beach rated it really liked it
Animal covers a lot of terrible things with a pretty unredeemable main character, but I was kind of riveted by it.
This is absolutely not going to be a book for everyone, but I really enjoyed it. I can absolutely say that it, and Joan, will stick with me for awhile.
I'm honestly not sure what to say about this one. The writing is beautiful and clever in its descriptive sense and formation of external characters, Lisa Taddeo is undoubtedly talented in that arena.
That aside though I found this novel disturbing and likely not in the way the author intended..I can see what she was attempting here but for me personally it was too convoluted and over written in so many places. Main protagonist Joan is so totally unlikable, the way she behaves, the way she thinks...more
Apr 26, 2021Claire rated it it was amazing
Shelves: best-of-2021, ibr-read-harder-2021, arcs
What a ride. Animal was a HIGHLY anticipated read for me, riding on my love of Taddeo’s non-fiction debut Three Women. This fiction debut did not disappoint.
Animal is a gritty, graphic novel which follows 36-year-old Joan (not sure if I’d call her a protagonist or an antagonist) from New York to LA following a grammatical, violent incident. Although it’s clear that this is the inciting incident for Joan’s move, Animal is one of those novel where the motivations of the characters are a bit hazy, ...more
May 05, 2021Sarah rated it it was ok · review of another edition
1.5 rounded up
Sigh. Where to start... having absolutely loved Three Women and enjoyed the extract of this that I'd read I was certain this would be one of my top reads of the year -- it was definitely one of my most anticipated, but ended up being a huge letdown.
Instead I'm sorry to say that I found this to be almost instantly forgettable and an utter slog to get through and it feels like I read a different book to everyone else! The protagonist, Joan, is in her late 30s and has recently relocat...more
Jul 05, 2021switterbug (Betsey) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
“I drove myself out of New York where a man shot himself in front of me…He did this in a restaurant where I was having dinner with another man another married man. Do you see where this is going?”
That’s all in the first paragraph--and, no, I did not know where this was going, but I was riveted to the spot. This is the story of 36 year-old Joan, a survivor, whose parents died at age 10, and therein raised by her knowing and urbane Aunt Gosia, who taught Joan how to be independent. But, as the re...more
Mar 15, 2021Kim rated it it was amazing
it’s very hard to find words for this book. “masterful” comes to mind. lisa taddeo can write fiction, CONFIRMED.
the protagonist, joan, is so unlikeable and fascinating that the only comparison is ottessa moshfegh’s characters. this is a story about a hurt woman who hurts and is hurt by men, and as we zeroed in on the events that started all of this, the downward spiral of her life, i found myself leaning in. so much ugliness in these pages, but it’s irresistible.
Jun 15, 2021Michelle rated it really liked it
🚁 Whew ! What a wild ride! 🚁
WARNING: If you can’t handle hearing the words “rape”, “I’ll kill myself”, “ I want to kill someone,” can’t deal w/ cursing this book is NOT for you. Sexual & Graphic content, but I don’t want to say too much due to spoilers. Go into it KNOWING you may not be the appropriate audience.
“Smart older men will have a way of crawling up your leg. It won’t feel seedy at first & it might seem like it was your idea ...”
Joan has been through such reoccurring life-long trauma ...more
May 28, 2021Mel rated it it was ok
Shelves: female-rage, rape-culture, fiction, trigger-warning
It pains me to say this, but Animal unequivocally did not work for me. I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised, since I wound up DNFing Three Women as well. Lisa Taddeo is undoubtedly talented, her prose traffics in big ideas parred down to snappy one liners or short paragraphs that read like mini rage-fuelled manifestos. I found myself highlighting a lot of quotes to circle back to, and there is plenty of buzzy capital C content for Emma Roberts and other celebrities with book clubs looking for th...more
Dec 02, 2021Maria Espadinha rated it really liked it
Animal — The Story behind the story
“Animal became, for me, a way to show the way that cuts—both small and large ones—deepen and manifest and metastasize over time to become canal-depth stripes. And these stripes are the markings of an animal, of a woman, in this case, turning into the very beast she has been whipped and/or caged into being.”
“With Animal I wanted to show the guts. I wanted to show the way the past can handicap you. Of all the stories I heard for Three Women, there were so many I ...more
May 03, 2021Roman Clodia rated it liked it · review of another edition
I appreciated the intent of this book and the way it shows us a woman scarred by trauma and filled with rage, but the even, flat prose doesn't seem to track with the contents of the book. I can see that Joan is fighting a crushing sense of social and self- alienation but the voice is so even, a kind of literary monotone, that I was always detached from the story being told.
There are some bold and shocking moves in the book, and a long-awaited reckoning with a generalised culture which is so com...more

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Jun 23, 2021Lou (nonfiction fiend) rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Animal is the brutal, fascinating and profoundly disturbing journey from one woman's designation as prey for those in her life to feast upon to the omnipotent predator who now stalks them. For far too long, unmarried thirty-six-year-old Joan endured the cruelty of men. She loves one of them, but he stays cold. And the one who loves her will one day throw himself in front of her. When he shoots himself in the head right before her eyes, she flees the city. Joan escapes from New York to Los Angele...more
Apr 05, 2021natalie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Thank you to Bloomsbury for this gifted ARC.
This book hits you like a sucker punch. I knew Taddeo’s debut novel was about female rage, but I wasn’t quite sure what the tone of the book would be, or even what core themes the book would include.
Animal follows Joan, a 30-something year old as she relocates to Los Angeles in search of a woman called Alice, with whom Joan is obsessed with for reasons initially unbeknownst to the reader. The reader watches Joan as she connects with Alice, slowly unc...more

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Jul 07, 2021Shandi Pattison rated it it was amazing
ARRRRRRGH. Heaps of emotions. I hated it… I loved it… I despised it… I adored it… 😳. Hard to rate but I think if a novel evokes rage, heartbreak, disgust, familiarity, laughter… it’s probably done as the author intended. I will likely think about this book and the characters for some time….
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