Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

6 reviews

tamara_joy's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Truly bizarre.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Gore

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Body horror, Child death, Gun violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Police brutality, Racial slurs, Infidelity, Blood, Alcohol, and Religious bigotry

jaimemt_reads's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

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

3.0

This is a very unique book.  I recommend reading Gogol before attempting this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Blood, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Forced institutionalization, Religious bigotry, Violence, Death, and Confinement

lisztaffe's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting, Racial slurs, Infidelity, Violence, Ableism, Racism, Xenophobia, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Gore, Animal death, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Torture

rchatterjee188's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization and Gaslighting

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Car accident, Classism, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Gore, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Slavery, Stalking, Toxic friendship, and Violence

acogna's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

little_librophile's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, and Mental illness

Minor: Homophobia

Many characters end up in mental hospital The homophobia tag is for that one of the characters has the alias f*ggot. From research I found that the word used in russian sounds like that but more accurately means buffoon, but I guess my edition translates it as that 🙃