Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

67 reviews

directorpurry's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, and Car accident

amaranth_wytch's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Torture, Violence, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Body horror, Cursing, Drug use, Gun violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying

mcuthill's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

3.5

Loved the concept, but the writing style is very stereotypical YA; every emotion or reaction is ratcheted up a few notches too high, and nary an opportunity is missed to punch things up with an extraneous adjective or adverb. Despite obvious efforts to flesh her out, the MC feels oddly hollow in that 'insert self here' kind of way.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Blood, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, Lesbophobia, and Gaslighting

shadowykittenwizard's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Biphobia, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Gaslighting

archaicrobin's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad 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

4.0

Camp Damascus is fun campy horror at its best but with a terrifying under-layer that touches on the evil of gay conversion camps and organized Christian based religions overall.  Excellent representation, excellent characters and story! This one is very out there so I recommend to those that can look past logic and appreciate fun horror. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, Lesbophobia, and Fire/Fire injury

brioches22's review

dark funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

laboromi's review

dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Homophobia, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Stalking, Car accident, and Gaslighting

Minor: Confinement, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Alcohol

emizulu's review

dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.5

I loved this book. Heartfelt, heartbreaking, and fulfilling. Interesting world building, at just the kind of pace that lets you put together a few of the background pieces yourself. Would definitely recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Biphobia, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Car accident, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, and Dysphoria

errie's review against another edition

dark

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

rachelunabridged's review

dark 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Gun violence, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Car accident and Fire/Fire injury