Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale

5 reviews

mariakureads'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

3.5

Found this was a bit of a slow start but once it picked up, it was entertaining and engaging.
The first person POV from the FMC, Dashti, was different as the book is set up as her journal entries to tell the story.
Written for a younger audience, the writing style fits as it's not over the top or overly complicated. It doesn't need to be for it's a sweet story that has an overall sense of resilience and hope.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Abandonment, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Violence and Death

silver_valkyrie_reads's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

2023 reread:
Bumping this up from 4 to 4.5 stars on this read, though I'm not quite ready to mark it as an all time favorite. Mostly it's just a sweet story with lovable characters, but that does what it does very well. This time through I also noticed how well done the character arcs and development work. 

There's a short section where the classic relationship lie comes up as a plot point, which actually makes total sense in the context, but still stresses me out just enough to keep this from being a true favorite. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Classism, Grief, Death of parent, Confinement, and Bullying

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Mental illness

Minor: Excrement, Child abuse, Sexual assault, and Suicidal thoughts

cblunier's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Body shaming

Minor: Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Classism

krutikasurve's review against another edition

mysterious slow-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

3.5

This was a sweet story of a maid and her lady. I love how we see the maid grow into her own person. The lady is super annoying through out, which makes sense given the context but still was a lot. It was a bit slow paced but picks up in the last 3rd and, oh boy, does it pick up. The love story is sweet but I felt they could've done more or less with it. It was a weird amount of romance. I still really liked it though (for the last third).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Confinement, and Emotional abuse

rini's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Moderate: Animal death