Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

6 reviews

pedanther's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, War, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Rape

Moderate: Body horror, Colonisation, Blood, Confinement, Grief, Mental illness, Sexual content, Torture, and Xenophobia

Minor: Ableism, Drug use, Gun violence, Slavery, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Alcohol, Bullying, Child death, Classism, and Cursing

sandragloz's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

Jedao🥲

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Emotional abuse, and War

intoblossom's review

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

3.0

Mostly for the worldbuilding. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Gore, and Gun violence

Moderate: Genocide and Torture

Minor: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, and Suicide

confusedmuse's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, War, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Suicide

Moderate: Body horror, Dysphoria, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Confinement, Colonisation, Grief, Murder, Self harm, and Torture

lbevs's review

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I adore this book with the bottom of my heart, but it is Exhausting. This book put me through the ringer emotionally, but I loved reading it. Lee’s writing is pretty aggressive, and while I think the worldbuilding is really strong, there’s almost no exposition so you have to figure it out while you’re reading. So if you don’t want to feel like you’re putting together a puzzle while you’re reading, this might not be a great match for you. That said, I found it brilliant, and I fell in love with the characters while staying on the edge of my seat. Also, this books (and series) has good LGBT+ rep, but no (or not a lot of) romance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Body horror

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

Minor: Torture, Rape, and Genocide

trazac's review

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

2.0

I had a particularly difficult time reading this book. It is outright confusing and meant to be. There is borderline zero exposition, so all details are scrapped from conversation and narration, precious though they be. Also borderline zero descriptions of what anything looks like. Perhaps that won't be an issue with some readers, but I had a hard time picturing anything that was happening which only lead to more confusion. The middle 60% of the book is outrageously boring, with interspersed sections of brand new POVs of characters who are spun up with a lot of detail only to die immediately.

Otherwise well written. Good character dynamic and somewhat compelling theater of war style writing that I just personally cannot find interest in. Character growth somewhat limited and complicated. World is built somewhat well but utterly confusing. For a relatively short book, a ton of information is introduced and never explained. Perhaps that makes the world more true-to-life but it also means many people will walk away with a totally different idea of what happened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Gore, Mental illness, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content and Gun violence

Minor: Confinement and Suicidal thoughts