Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher

8 reviews

cuddlygryphon's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Cursing, and Gore

Moderate: Medical content, Vomit, Self harm, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Cannibalism, Confinement, Grief, and Gun violence

spineofthesaurus's review

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Violence, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Drug use, Gore, Alcohol, Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Torture

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Gaslighting, Animal death, Medical trauma, Infidelity, and Ableism

Minor: Incest and Cannibalism

kattybusiness's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Violence, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, and Murder

hazelsnoot's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.0

The worldbuilding was genuinely scary, but the two main characters constantly making quippy jokes got old fast. Hated all the fanfic references,  and at one point the main character talks about incest shipping which felt very unnecessary and gross. Liked Simon but wished we saw more of him as a rounded character vs just the MC's GBF.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Confinement, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Antisemitism, Ableism, Incest, Sexual content, and Homophobia

superiour_medium's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-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? No

4.5

An excellent look into multiversal cosmic horror. Kingfisher portrays the main characters Kara and Simon in a humanizing manner and writes dialog that actually reads like humans talking. The pure horror of the

Willows as a malignant force & the Eldritch things that walk amongst them hearing thoughts and having the ability to unravel people like Sturdivant

are when Kingfisher’s horror is at its best.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Body horror

Moderate: Animal death and Child death

Minor: Confinement

Most of the animal harm is related to the taxidermy in the museum, not actual animals. That being said the visual of

the Willowlight Otter impaled on Prince’s antlers

is still fairly visceral

vanadiumbean's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I think I prefer her romance novels. The writing style is fun, conversational and approachable, but stretches a little thin sometimes. Sometimes a humorous aside is just distracting from the stuff that's really interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Blood and Mental illness

Minor: Infidelity, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Animal death, Car accident, Child death, Confinement, and Murder

annact's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Confinement

jessiebertram's review

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

This shit was WEIRD and I loved it! I liked the this-world bits more than the willow bits, and so can’t give it the full five stars. But if you’re looking for a strange ass book with creativity levels off the charts, then this is for you! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Alcohol