Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne

5 reviews

star_charter152'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Cursing, War, Grief, and Slavery

Minor: Excrement, Pregnancy, Confinement, and Fire/Fire injury

saltycoffee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Child abuse, Grief, Torture, Trafficking, Blood, Murder, Slavery, Xenophobia, Classism, Confinement, War, Animal death, Death of parent, and Gore

seanml's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny tense slow-paced

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

3.75

John Gwynne is a wonderful modern fantasy writer, and continues to be. This series continues with his signature style of multiple character points of view that slowly weave together as the story goes on. Plus, it’s Norse-inspired which you don’t see a lot of in fantasy for whatever reason. Oh yeah it’s hyper-violent, but luckily without the usual caveat that “it’s historically accurate so there needs to be rampant misogyny!” 7.5/10. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Death, Murder, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Trafficking, Body horror, Kidnapping, Medical content, Grief, Slavery, Stalking, and Vomit

Minor: Alcohol, Child abuse, Confinement, Torture, and Animal death

silasreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Slavery, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Trafficking, Torture, and Confinement

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Excrement, and Vomit

This book is brutal in its description of violence. Not for the squimish.

travelseatsreads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

I've struggled with writing a review for this one as I really enjoyed some parts of the book but then felt like other sections were almost a chore.

What I Liked
-Amazing world building
-Some amazing sections of writing and lots of quotable lines.
-Lots of action and mythical creatures 
-Great female characters

What I Didn't Like 
-There were chunks where I was bored
-I felt most of the characters needed more depth
-It needs a glossary and character map. There are so many terms and characters to make sense of it's easy to get lost, especially for the first book of a series.

It's quite obviously a really well written book and is getting huge praise but for me I felt it was a little bit too much hard work for the pay off of the level of enjoyment I received from it. I've no doubt however that it will make for an amazing series.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Alcohol, Animal death, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Murder, War, Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Slavery, Torture, and Violence