Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

15 reviews

ekcd_'s review against another edition

adventurous tense 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? It's complicated

2.0

I read this in high school (15 years ago) and I have thought about it regularly since then. What a good book it was, how I knew it was the beginning of loving fantasy. 

Decided to read it again and uh. It’s kinda bad? The prose is trash, like truly trash. FMC is a little annoying, a little too situationally perfect. Valek is whatever. Of course the only loveable characters are the hulking loyal body cards Yelena befriends by being ~so smol and fierce~

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Torture, Deadnaming, Toxic relationship, Violence, Gore, Abandonment, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, Addiction, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Child death, Blood, Vomit, Child abuse, Transphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Outing, and Suicidal thoughts

spaghettii's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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

4.75

I could not put this book down! I had a hard time predicting a lot of the book, which was a nice change.

I knew Rand was going to betray her at some point because of how Valek described him, but wow. I like that despite being portrayed as the bad guy there was still depth to the chatacter.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Bullying, Physical abuse, Violence, Vomit, Transphobia, Confinement, Sexism, Drug use, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Addiction, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Toxic friendship, Torture, Death, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual content

brie_is_reading's review against another edition

tense fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, Violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Rape

cerilouisereads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Rape, Torture, Sexual assault, and Confinement

poetsofsweetpea's review against another edition

medium-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

2.5

The story premise is good but it almost reads like a rough draft.  We get told rather than shown what happens.  The narration was also flat and the strange music at the end of every chapter break pulls you out of the story and at times seems to mock the story itself.  if you are interested in this series,  I hear there is a revision coming.  Listen to that one instead.  its probably better done and the story itself isn't bad. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Rape, Torture, War, Child abuse, Murder, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Violence

maevebillings's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Vomit

Minor: Child abuse, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Blood, and Transphobia

jgalla's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Blood, Confinement, Medical trauma, Child abuse, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Vomit, Violence, Sexual violence, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Torture, Slavery, and Sexual harassment

sienna1508's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Vomit, Grief, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Child death, Excrement, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

aseel_reads's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

this had so much potential and it just flopped so bad. the magic system was quite vague and i don't see the point of its addition. the story was quite predictable as well. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Trafficking, Sexual violence, Medical content, Murder, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Vomit, Violence, Torture, and Stalking

lisa_m's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Don't get me wrong, this was a good book. I might even say it was a great one but it was just nothing special. I really wish I would have enjoyed it more. This could have been a five star read but something was missing. I liked the writing, loved the characters, loved the plot and magic system. My only real concern was that the romance felt rushed and underdeveloped. Since the rest was good I don't really mind though.

I think the reason I didn't like it as much as I could have is how much YA Fantasy I have already read. At some point it just starts to become repetitive. I really hope that is not true though because I love YA Fantasy. :( If I read this book 2 years ago I would have probably liked it more.

Another concern I had was that certain serious topics where discussed quite graphically which I don't like and which always makes me uncomfortable. It was used to establish Yelenas character and her past trauma but still I wished it had been less graphic.

Nonetheless I will definitely be reading the following books of the series. I also hope Ari and Janco will be in the next booka as well since they were my favourite characters. (Btw. I thought their friendship could have been established better. They basically went from not knowing Yelena to wanting to die for her which felt very rushed.) I guess I just wished it was longer but since it is the first book of a series that's not really a big issue.

Edit: One more thing. I didn't expect the romance to be Between thlse two people for two reasons. 1. it was underdeveloped and 2. he is 33 and she is 19!! I didn't even realise it that much while reading the book but at first I did think he was going to be a sort of mentor/father figure. When they started hinting at a romance I aged him down in my mind but now that I finished the book I looked it up and he really is 33! Idk what to think about that tbh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Blood, Deadnaming, Death, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Torture, Violence, and Vomit