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# Animal: A Novel

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Review: Soooooooo good - Truly one of the best books I’ve ever read. It does such a great job of depicting the casual, entitled way men commit quiet and not so quiet acts of emotional and physical violence against women. The author shifts back and forth between different points in Joan’s life where she endured heartbreaking trauma and was treated like collateral damage by men who saw her as a sexual object and not a woman worthy of real love or commitment. It’s a must-read for any woman who has ever felt disposable. Lisa Taddeo’s style of writing is haunting and beautiful. She’s like a more talented Chuck Palahniuk.
Review: Very Entertaining, Quick but Well Written - Joan is a survivor, and I love the self described “depraved” woman. Lisa Taddeo is a talented writer. I do wonder if the last quarter of the book was a little rushed, but it was still well written and engrossing. Three Women seemed more polished, but Animal does not disappoint. You won’t want to put it down.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #43,204 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #511 in Mothers & Children Fiction #1,238 in Contemporary Women Fiction #1,797 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars (3,753) |
| Dimensions  | 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.38 inches |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 1982122137 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1982122133 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 368 pages |
| Publication date  | May 31, 2022 |
| Publisher  | Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Soooooooo good
*by J***S on June 26, 2025*

Truly one of the best books I’ve ever read. It does such a great job of depicting the casual, entitled way men commit quiet and not so quiet acts of emotional and physical violence against women. The author shifts back and forth between different points in Joan’s life where she endured heartbreaking trauma and was treated like collateral damage by men who saw her as a sexual object and not a woman worthy of real love or commitment. It’s a must-read for any woman who has ever felt disposable. Lisa Taddeo’s style of writing is haunting and beautiful. She’s like a more talented Chuck Palahniuk.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very Entertaining, Quick but Well Written
*by S***B on August 3, 2021*

Joan is a survivor, and I love the self described “depraved” woman. Lisa Taddeo is a talented writer. I do wonder if the last quarter of the book was a little rushed, but it was still well written and engrossing. Three Women seemed more polished, but Animal does not disappoint. You won’t want to put it down.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Tragic, Tough, Psychological Tale of Betrayal
*by M***R on June 13, 2021*

This is not an easy book to read, and once read you might question if it was worth it. Lisa Taddeo's first novel tells a disturbing story of Joan, a convoluted character who in a first-person account reveals herself to us in a sardonic toned, cryptic memoir of a lost soul, caught in the prison of her own life. Joan's deep-rooted problems began in her privileged first ten years, until the sudden death of her parents, thrusting her into a cruel and unforgiving world where her traumatic past and unwise choices forces her to live two simultaneous lives: the superficial one she needs to survive in New York’s tumultuous social zoo and the one inside her filled with rage, insecurities, and mistrust. Joan’s provocative narrative is highly emotional and sensual, hence the likely source of the book’s tile, “Animal,” a vengeful diatribe that at first is aggressively and justifiably misandrist; however, a more subtle and passive-aggressive misogynist theme also emerges. Joan is a difficult character to like amid her fleeing from her past in New York to search for answers in the strange world of Los Angeles, specifically in the counter-culture area of Topanga Canyon to seek out the mysterious Alice for answers. Her life is a hodgepodge of seemingly unrelated and unplanned experiences as her darker, horrific motives and manipulate skills begin to emerge, revealing her past and her ultimate and unimaginable intentions. This psychological drama is not for the faint of heart, nor to those easily offended by coarse language and explicit sexual descriptions. Although the story made more sense in the last chapters, the torturous journey to get there seemed too long and arduous, purposely drawn out to inflict the most reader pain. My greatest disappointments with this book were its faux literary promotional promises and the author’s intentional deployment of shocking elements that corrupted the value of a potentially more important storyline. I felt abused rather than enlightened too many storytelling gimmicks. I understand that others might enjoy this dysfunctional reading experience, but I did not! Audible’s reading narration only intensified the story’s shortcomings, while intensifying obsessions of several broken women, lost in the tragedies of their own sad lives. I was hoping for more from a talented author and this missed opportunity.

## Frequently Bought Together

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