Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Dust by Hugh Howey

8 reviews

lpdx's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Terminal illness, Confinement, Death, Excrement, Child death, War, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

sophieamreacher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? No

4.5

Brilliant end to the series. It’s going to stick with me for a long time, I’ll be thinking of the characters and imagining what they’re up to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Abandonment, Murder, Suicide attempt, Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Vomit, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Gore, Body horror, Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Confinement, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Kidnapping, Medical content, Violence, and Terminal illness

jessy4550's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Medical content, Genocide, Gun violence, Gaslighting, Blood, Violence, Vomit, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Forced institutionalization, Terminal illness, Gore, Grief, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Police brutality, Abandonment, and Classism

srm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

4.0

There's a lot I like about how this series wraps up, but the tension and plot of this book relies far too often on situations that could be solved with a 15 second conversation. I'm willing to roll with maybe one instance of characters getting interrupted before they can say the important thing, or characters refusing to listen as someone tries to explain, or a character refusing to explain because the other character obviously knows what he did (untrue). But the book would be half as long without these. It just became intensely frustrating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Death

Moderate: Murder, Grief, Cursing, Blood, Medical content, Gun violence, and Violence

wormgirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging hopeful sad fast-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Religious bigotry, Violence, and Confinement

Minor: Child death

theimposter's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Genocide, Kidnapping, Torture, Animal death, Colonisation, Confinement, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Terminal illness, and War

kylieqrada's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.0

An excellent wrap-up to this trilogy. It's shocking to me how these days dystopians follow events that I can easily see happening IRL. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence and Violence

Minor: Sexual violence

kiikaridino's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement