Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

4 reviews

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Wonderfully crafted story. Audiobook narrator is also excellent.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Gore, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Bullying and Transphobia

mswarning's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Child death, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Transphobia, Blood, Deadnaming, Medical content, and Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Confinement and Eating disorder

crownoflaurel's review against another edition

dark reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Abandonment

Moderate: Transphobia

Minor: Deadnaming, Gaslighting, and Confinement

egernand's review

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

I feel like this story should have been more reflective, but wasn't given time to breathe due to the plot barging in. I don't feel that the plot added much, and prevented the character exploration or some of the setting exploration I wish would have taken place. Also, it was jarring and characters' roles/reactions to it damaged my suspension of disbelief. I liked the initial ideas of this story, but was unsatisfied by the direction it went.

The story is about children who had adventures in other worlds, and have now returned to the normal world and have to figure out how to cope. I thought that would be the focus of the book, and that it would explore things like the drastically different scope of what's important, coming from magical/extremely other worlds where you might die, or are saving the world, or are stuck as a servant, etc, returning to a world where you're just expected to do well in school, act nice to other children, behave for your family, etc. The plot overrode any deep exploration of that position these people find themselves in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, and Bullying

Moderate: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Eating disorder, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Violence, and Transphobia

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Graphic dismemberment