Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

7 reviews

zams's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

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

1.75

This book is still very readable, but I certainly didn't realise how insanely toxic this relationship and Edward as a whole actually is.
In addition to that all of the girls at Bella's school seemed very stereotypey in mostly bad ways

Idk if that's a spoiler or not but does Esme also work or is being a mother to 100-year-old-teenagers and occasionally volunteering and donating her only job?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement

jodean's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Car accident

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement and Medical trauma

nonidude's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

Quite pleased with the overall plot and ending. I don't really like any of the characters (except Alice), but I enjoyed the book regardless. It was a quick read for being almost 500 pages - tempo and structure was solid.

One author complaint would be the adjectives. "Medium build" and "nondescript" and "average looking" are a few that come to mind...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident and Gaslighting

Minor: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Gore, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

lonely_tardigrade's review

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

1.0

I only reread this to go through and highlight all the signs of abuse. Almost every page had a highlight on it. No idea why this is still considered a romance novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Stalking, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Death, Rape, Sexual content, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

darkefyres's review against another edition

emotional relaxing medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Medical content, and Stalking

Minor: Animal death, Death, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, and Colonisation

grboph's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

2.5

This is maybe one of the worst books I've ever read. I am legitimately unsure why my eleven-year-old self enjoyed them as much as she did. Probably for the reasons I gave it two and a half stars, which is pure entertainment value and being unintentionally hilarious at times. But seriously, I'm not sure how this book was even published. The writing is terrible, the characters are all incredibly annoying (all for completely different reasons), and Edward and Bella's relationship, which is held up as being romantic and perfect and star-crossed, is actually very toxic and abusive (one of their first ever conversations is just Edward gaslighting the hell out of Bella and it made me quite uncomfortable). This book (and the series) makes an excellent hate-read, and I'm definitely going to be finishing out the series at some point soon. The only people I think I'd seriously recommend this book to are eleven-year-old girls or someone who I really want to confuse. However, I'd recommend it to anybody else looking for something comically bad and cringey to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Blood, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Violence, Medical content, and Car accident

Minor: Death, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Abandonment

chloevienna's review

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense fast-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

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting