Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

10 reviews

iszys's review against another edition

inspiring 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? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Pregnancy, Animal death, and Confinement

Minor: Incest

hanngigi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Domestic abuse

Moderate: Racism, Medical content, Animal death, Sexism, Sexual harassment, and Violence

Minor: Incest and Stalking

smarzipan's review

slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Death, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Misogyny, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, and Violence

microbemom's review against another edition

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

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Racism, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Bullying, Confinement, Sexism, Violence, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Animal death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Death of parent, Death, Incest, Medical content, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Cursing, Blood, Classism, and Medical trauma

purplepenning's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Violence, Blood, Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Gore, Gun violence, Animal death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Religious bigotry

Minor: Rape, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Incest, Infidelity, and Sexual content

sassyshark's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Gun violence, Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Addiction, Blood, Colonisation, Death of parent, Medical content, and Racism

Moderate: Hate crime, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Stalking, Confinement, Abortion, Body horror, and Miscarriage

kellymariecox's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement and Physical abuse

Minor: Sexism, Terminal illness, Religious bigotry, Alcoholism, Animal death, Racism, and Sexual content

freetobme's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

Moves along. Didn’t find a lot of things to ponder or that I wanted to write down. 

Didn’t seem consistent with Fred’s character or prior statements that he and Alice didn’t wait until they were married, especially considering the era. 

Parts were pretty predictable. Like the annulment.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Pregnancy, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Car accident, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Terminal illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Murder, and Sexual content

bel017's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful informative sad tense fast-paced

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

I loved the characters: such strong, amazing, but realistically drawn women.
The setting too, was so well rendered. What an awful time and place. I'm sure the beauty of the place was supposed to shine through, but the dirt and poverty and hardship, and knowing those kinds of things really happened there and still happen all over the world, and that we all benefit from the misery of others, was tough.

Several times I had to skip a page or two to avoid traumatising content

a woman being beaten, a dog being killed

But reading about the friendship and the women's determination was wonderful.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Sexism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Racism, Xenophobia, Bullying, Confinement, and Violence

Minor: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Incest, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Religious bigotry

hodanayan's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Racism, Sexism, Addiction, and Confinement