Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Strange Bird by Jeff VanderMeer

8 reviews

u53rn4m's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Grief, and Torture

scytheria's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Torture

Moderate: Grief and Confinement

Minor: Child abuse

valjeanval's review against another edition

challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

5.0

A beautiful extension of the Borne universe. It’s Vandermeer at his best with weird and wonderful prose and complex perspective taking. While it’s mostly peripheral to the original novel, I wouldn’t read it without having read Borne. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Torture, Violence, Animal death, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, and Medical trauma

bedtimesnack's review against another edition

challenging mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.25

This story was heartbreaking and thought-provoking. It challenged me to think about animals in a different way. The story might stand on its own okay, but it's meant as a companion novella to Borne. I would read Borne before this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Cannibalism and Torture

cursivewolf's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-paced

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

5.0

Absolutely beautiful. I adore the Strange Bird. A gorgeous tragic creature. Weeping towards the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Animal death, Body horror, Torture, Violence, Physical abuse, Animal cruelty, Child death, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Stalking, Medical trauma, Medical content, and War

booknug's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia and Confinement

bakerreads's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, War, Violence, Toxic relationship, Torture, Medical content, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Slavery, Confinement, Medical trauma, Grief, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Death, and Blood

mangoelk's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was making me tear up while reading. Heartbreaking, cruel, and beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Grief, Animal cruelty, Confinement, and Violence