Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis

15 reviews

sxndaze's review

3.5

adventurous funny lighthearted 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

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it’s an interesting concept with a sweet execution!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence, Kidnapping

Moderate: Sexism, Blood, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Torture

shiradfrankel's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

ribbonquest's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark funny 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

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The start of this book is going to feel very familiar to anyone who's watched fantasy anime in the last decade. A man awakens in the body of a dark lord with no memory and tries to fake it. It's not the body swap/isekai story of anime, rather an amnesia one. The amnesia thing annoyed me for the first third, before Gav stops being such a blank slate.

The story is comedic and dark, hitting a lot of the beats you'd expect from a "dark lord turns good" story. There's slapstick and horrific magical torture back to back. I liked a lot of the side characters much more than Gav himself. He's a bundle of confusion, self loathing, and cowardice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Blood

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Animal death

fluffyreadsthings's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Sometimes you just need something fun and light, and my favorite flavor of that is definitely this variety of rather kooky spin on classic fantasy concepts.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Murder

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement

essieruth's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark funny lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

erynelle's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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+ Fun fantasy novel, the characters don’t feel hollow or one dimensional
- some areas could have been edited or rewritten but overall pretty good

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

parenii_audiobooks3x's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Terry Pratchett/Princess Bride level humor and reflection. A delectable listen with inclusive ideology and efforts. The whole package. Great resolution and denouement, too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Dysphoria

Minor: Rape, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Sexual harassment

often subverted a la Pratchett

Chekov's tentacles

rafalcopter's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This book was so funny and heartwarming. Highly recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Racism, Sexism

Minor: Confinement, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder

micheala's review against another edition

4.0

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I was a little apprehensive going into this. Based on the premise I was hoping for a very specific tone, and the last time I had that combination it didn't work out *cough*How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying*cough*

This however was delightful. It was the perfect mix of campy and melodramatic, and met my tone expectations perfectly. 

Orla and Grrribeetle and all the goblins were such fun characters. 

I would have loved to see an epilogue however I'm happy enough with the way it ended anyways.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Body shaming

cmbohn's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark funny lighthearted mysterious 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

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This was a book club pick and I gotta say, I really liked it! Gave was a fun character, as he changed over the book. The names are pretty crazy, but I liked the goblins and the garlic festival. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail