Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Witch and the Vampire by Francesca Flores

15 reviews

grace_b_3's review

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Sexual content

refrejarator's review

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, War, Bullying, Torture, Confinement, Grief, Emotional abuse, Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child abuse, Death of parent, Animal death, Death, and Fire/Fire injury

amandaplease50's review

adventurous dark hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Amazing cover! Solid book so you know sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. 

Some slight twists and turns but not overwhelming and so well written. It’s in first person POV and the POV changes every chapter which can honestly be terrible in books but I never felt like I was reading in first person. And the changing of POV really added to the story! 

Small romance mostly about the witch and vampire lore which I loved. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Violence, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual harassment

shelbyslifer's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

micaelacccc's review against another edition

hopeful mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Violence, Child abuse, Physical abuse, and Blood

Moderate: Death, Animal death, Death of parent, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Murder

myplaincheerios's review

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.25

It was okay. I was really excited about a queer retelling of repunzel, but it was barely repunzel —the only thing that was the same was being locked in a tower and having long hair. it was an easy listen on my way to work, and it did grab me at some points but lost me a lot because of the many internal monologues, info-dumping lore, and I didn’t really connect with the characters at all. If the story was more fleshed out and more of showing not telling, it could have been great. It also reads not as a YA, but more for an 8th grader let’s say. I did enjoy the ending though, and would have appreciated a “few years later” epilogue kinda deal. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Confinement, and Emotional abuse

elskabee's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.5

I wanted to like this so bad but this had major problems and was not ready to be published. It had first draft energy. 

I think at its heart way deep down there is a good book in there and every now and again I would be rewarded for my effort in persisting with this book. The major problems were:
- Continuity errors
- Logical inconsistencies
- Logic errors
- Ava's inconsistent characterisation

I also struggled with the cringey internal monologues that would have been fine if they didn't happen constantly. "I thought I was weak... but actually I am powerful" type of BS is fine in small doses but this book is full of them. The writing quality was also quite inconsistent. Sometimes it would be perfectly fine, and then other times it felt very slapped together like the author intended to go back and edit it later but never did.

The general plot I think was fine, I liked some of the twists. I like that rekindling the friendship between the two leads took precedence over the romance. I liked the atmosphere of the woods. I liked the rapunzel retelling aspect.

Unfortunately this book has major shitty first draft energy, and wasn't even close to being in a good state to publish and so everyone who reads this, even those who enjoy it, will be disappointed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood

Moderate: Confinement

vixenreader's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

Repetition of themes and plot points, and hammering home said themes and plot points are the book’s weakness, but the central characters, romance, and immense folklore and imagination make up for the novel’s shortcomings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Gaslighting, Forced institutionalization, Child abuse, Confinement, Violence, Grief, Abandonment, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal death, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Medical content, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Cannibalism, Gore, and Kidnapping

Minor: Slavery, Ableism, and War

There is also destruction of nature, people being chained and imprisoned, and abusive mother-daughter dynamics.

krisalexcole's review

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Death, and Murder

booksthatburn's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Blood