Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey

9 reviews

alexreadsboooks's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Violence

Minor: Child abuse

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful 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

4.0

A really nice completion of Phedre's story! Weaves between boring and intense, sad and hopeful. It resolves many storylines and plot threads. Such an interesting world, as an interpretation of our own. 
I had a really hard time staying engaged in the first half, but I was drawn in by the second half.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Murder, Animal cruelty, Blood, Sexual violence, Addiction, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Medical content, Addiction, Drug use, Genocide, Pedophilia, Animal death, Colonisation, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Religious bigotry

hippievamp's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Blood, Rape, Confinement, Child abuse, Trafficking, Sexual assault, Slavery, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Drug use, Pedophilia, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Torture, Grief, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Gore, Alcohol, Animal death, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Genocide, Medical content, and War

zone_a3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Child abuse, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Rape, Torture, Confinement, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

ambientdusk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, War, Blood, Child abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Slavery, Trafficking, and Addiction

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Self harm

ahue92's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Physical abuse, Kidnapping, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Gore, Sexual assault, and Rape

ynbushehri's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing 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? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Trafficking, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Blood, Confinement, Death, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Excrement

queer_bookwyrm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense 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? No

4.0

 "We pay for the sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen." 

Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey is the last book in Phédre's trilogy. These books were so very long, but worth it! This book book finally wraps up all the loose ends and ends on a high note full of hope and love. 

This time we follow Phédre ten years after the last book, while she continuously searches for a way to free Hyacinthe from the curse of the Master of the Straits. Her path eventually crosses with that of Melisande, yet again, but this time to find her son, who has gone missing. 

This had so much adventure in it and so much happened! This seriously could have been two books wrapped in one. I still love Carey's writing style, it's beautiful and poetic, but never shies away from horrors of humanity, of which there are many in this book. There are scenes and descriptions in this book that were hard to read, and is not meant for the faint of heart. 

I love all the characters we come to know and fell hard for the enduring bravery and resilience of Imirel as well as Phédre. We got to see different lands, languages, foods, and belief systems. We learn about the strength of women and what they endure, and we learn about the power of love. Sounds cliché, doesn't it? But the message is clear in all the beliefs in this book, love is the thing that will save us and make us whole. 

As Elua bid his children of Terre D'Ange, "Love, as thou wilt." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

perditorian's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• 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: Rape, Sexual violence, Child abuse, Torture, Slavery, and Confinement

Moderate: Trafficking