Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Prison Healer by Lynette Noni

92 reviews

marinasslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense 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

4.0

Eines der besten Buch Enden, die ich je gelesen/gehört hab! 

Die mutige Kiva hat als Gefängnisheilerin von Zalindov alle Hände voll zu tun. Auch im Gefängnis wird es nie langweilig: mysteriöse neue Gefangene, harte Prüfungen und natürlich ihre Patienten, mit teilweise mysteriösen Krankheiten... 

Die Sprecherin des Hörbuches passte sehr gut zum Charakter der Hauptfigur und war generell sehr angenehm zu hören. 

Ohne Spoilern zu wollen, hat mich das Ende einfach nur geflasht! Ich hab es absolut nicht vorhergesehen und war total schockiert! Ich bin sehr froh, das der nächste Teil der Reihe bereits erschienen ist und damit hoffentlich auch bald übersetzt wird. Ich kann es kaum erwarten!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Sexual harassment, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Confinement, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Self harm

kassidyreads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Violence, Physical abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Death of parent, Terminal illness, Rape, and Self harm

Minor: Addiction and Drug use

izzy_mckeough's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-paced

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

3.5

Written by Lynette Noni, one of my favourite fantasy authors, I had very high expectations for this book. I have to say, I was slightly disappointed by the lack of compelling plot and very slow pace. However, the book did have good characters who were believable and 3-dimensional (my favourite being Naari). The last few pages also revealed some huge plot twists which confused me at the time, but thinking back on it there was some (very subtle) foreshadowing. Overall, in my opinion one of Noni's weakest books but I'll persevere through to the second novel and hope it can add some more interesting plot to a fairly well-developed setting with good characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Death, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Sexism, and Medical content

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Sexism, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Blood

sarahsbookss's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Physical abuse, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Medical trauma, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Violence, and Vomit

chamaeleontis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-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

4.75

This book was great. It had so many amazing, and natural plot twists. I only guessed 1 of them, and part of 2 others. Nothing was set up that wasn't followed through on. The characters are all 3D, and morally realistic, which I personally really enjoyed. That's not even to mention the writing. Lynette Noni's style is spectacular. It flows so naturally, and is very enjoyable.

The one nit-picky thing was a plot point I personally didn't like, which is why it's 4.75, rather than 5.

It bothered me that we never got to know Tilda despite her being right there. I would have had a problem with it regardless of her being Kiva's mom, but that made it more frustrating. In the same vein, I get why it was done, but I feel that there could have at least been one full sentence exchanged

I would highly recommend this book for anyone who loves fantasy but is sick of repetitive plots. There's a few common tropes, but they are well done, with unique takes. I'm really looking forward to the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Torture, Violence, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Sexual violence, Drug use, Terminal illness, War, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Blood, Ableism, Misogyny, Slavery, Medical content, and Sexism

corabookworm's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

- pretty fast paced, lots of action/conflict 
- didn’t require much thought or mind energy to read
- plot was interesting enough
- characters and romance was eh, didn’t feel super connected to them but reading it wasn’t torture 
- VERY predictable plot twists

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Self harm, Sexual assault, Medical content, Death of parent, Sexual content, War, Violence, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Torture, Rape, Drug use, Death, Blood, Sexual violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Drug abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide

maregred's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, and Violence

khloereads86's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Addiction

Minor: Blood, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Vomit

nirellis's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

It felt like the book really began after the 200 page mark but oh my god was it worth the read. THAT ENDING. WHAT. My mind is in smithereens.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Confinement

Moderate: Child death, Drug abuse, Death, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual assault, Rape, and Self harm

ode_to_readers's review against another edition

5.0

Reread: 5 star again

Maybe not as good as the first time but that's because I knew all the twists this time. However, I loved all the foreshadowing and reading with the knowledge of what will happen. Its a whole different way of reading the story
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THAT ENDING ONGOMGOMGOMG THIS STORY OMGOMGOMGOGM. 

If I could erase my memory just so I can re-read this book, I would. And I would do it 100 more times. This story is everything I ever love about reading. It’s dark but has the most amazing characters with the wittiest and dry sense of humour. So many secrets to uncover and so many different storylines- from the trials to finding the cure for the sickness.

And the ENDING. No spoilers don’t worry but THE AUTHOR JUST HITS YOU WITH SO MANY PLOT TWISTS IN THE LAST FEW PAGES. And not even in the last few pages but towards the end too. I literally <i>gasped</i> out loud at one- so loud my parents were like wtf you okay? And NO IM NOT because I read so many books that you kind of start to see where the story goes and predict some twists BUT NOT THESE ONES. Like maybe a few thoughts passed through my mind but I was like naaaaah that doesn’t seem likely but then WHAM it happens and I’m still like :00000 

So it seems like this author is besties with Sarah J Maas and SJM is my favourite author so honestly if you love Throne of Glass as much as I do and her other books, give this series a try too. It is so worth it and this book was my most anticipated read for this year, so I’m thrilled I have the Fairyloot edition of it too because it’s so pretty 😍 AND AND AND the sequel is already set to come this year so it’s perfect. SO READ THIS.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Addiction, Torture, and Child death

Minor: Vomit, Murder, Death of parent, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Sexual harassment, and Drug abuse