Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Recursion by Blake Crouch

9 reviews

kathywoo10's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Dementia, Death, Gun violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence, Pandemic/Epidemic, Murder, Suicide attempt, Drug abuse, Suicide, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, and Confinement

gondorgirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Gore, Grief, Violence, Genocide, Blood, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Body horror, Child death, Gun violence, War, Death, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Alcohol, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, and Death of parent

hgunsch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Child death, Confinement, Death, Dementia, Suicide attempt, and Stalking

Minor: Stalking, Rape, Domestic abuse, Pandemic/Epidemic, Mass/school shootings, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, and Medical trauma

bobbi's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Death, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Death of parent, Murder, Dementia, and Child death

mar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense medium-paced

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

3.75

very readable sci-fi thriller :]

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Death, Grief, Gore, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Child death

Moderate: Death of parent, Confinement, Gun violence, and Car accident

Minor: Mass/school shootings

carolina_has_an_idea's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

I listened to the audiobook. Wow. This story dragged on for a really long time. When everything is revealed I thought “oh I must be getting close to the end.” No. I was only 50% through the book. I keep listening because I needed something to listen to while I was doing chores around the house.

If you watch/read enough time travel fiction you can guess what the solution is pretty easily on. It was a very frustrating listening to them fail over and over again. Just go to the first timeline idiots. That’s always the solution. I also did not understand why Helena had to go back with all the memories alone. Barry could’ve done the same thing and it would’ve saved Helena from having to explain everything to him. I also did not like when Barry was explaining the meaning of life. 50 cent did a better and more concise job in his song “Many Men.”

Too long. I also remember not liking Dark Matter by the same author. Maybe their writing is not for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Car accident, War, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Confinement

kingsteph's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dementia, Suicide, Medical content, Self harm, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, Child death, Mental illness, Grief, Genocide, Confinement, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

lilifane's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

My favourite one! For me it's perfection.
I love love loooooooved everything about this and don't have any complaints whatsoever.
I even cried at the end. That's something I didn't expect from a book like this.
And woah, this felt like 5 books in one. At the end I was like "This all really happened in this one book?!" 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Car accident, Drug use, and Mass/school shootings

thebooklifeofemilyrose's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

4.0

What I liked:

• Multiple POVs
• Great character development—the Barry and Helena you meet in the first few pages isn’t nearly the same ones you encounter at the end.
• Fast paced with engaging writing
• The science aspect—I’m a huge science nerd and really enjoyed how there was an even balance of science and plot throughout.

What I didn’t like:

• Also the science aspect—at times I had to reread the same paragraphs a few times because I really wanted to make sense of the science Crouch was writing about. I’m not a physicist so who knows if anyone of it’s accurate, but I really wanted to be able to follow it and sometimes it felt a bit too dense (but it didn’t affect the plot).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence