Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

16 reviews

aileron's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, and Torture

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood, Classism, Sexism, Death of parent, and Misogyny

anna_wa's review against another edition

adventurous

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Stalking, Torture, Vomit, Cursing, Confinement, and Police brutality

Minor: Domestic abuse and Abandonment

jennikreads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Sexual content

Moderate: Murder, Blood, and Confinement

ridesthesun's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-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

MY GIRLS MY GIRLLLLLSSSSSS !!!!!

This book was just so much fun. The magical hijinks, the murder mystery, the menagerie in the middle of the ocean.... It had so much. The character work, the setting, and the plot are all the definition of Colorful™️.

I'm so proud of Maud and all the honest effort she puts into being a good person, into being her OWN person. I love her I'm proud of her, I'm kissing her on the head. And VIOLET!! Layers and layers. I love her, I can't wait to see her continue to explore her own vulnerability. 

And fuck this book for making me like Hawthorne. I thought it would be impossible and yet. Here we are. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Blood, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Murder, Torture, Confinement, Cursing, Violence, and Misogyny

maxinesf's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Classism

caseythereader's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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? It's complicated

4.5

Thanks to Tor Books for the free advance copy of this book.

 - A RESTLESS TRUTH was pitched as "lesbian Knives Out on a boat," and WOW does it deliver on that promise! I was so-so on the previous book in this series, A MARVELLOUS LIGHT, feeling that it never struck the right balance between the genres it was blending. This book does that beautifully, and puts at its heart a beautiful story about allowing yourself to be seen as you are.
- The mystery plot of this book is great fun, keeping it silly and surprising even with the high stakes.
- I think you can probably manage to read this book without having read the previous installment, but you'll be better off if you have, since this one doesn't really reexplain the magic system or the the larger ongoing story until well into the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Classism, Cursing, Violence, Vomit, Alcohol, Confinement, Grief, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexism, and Sexual content