Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

10 reviews

allie_in_wonderland's review against another edition

emotional hopeful slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Confinement, Homophobia, Deadnaming, and Death of parent

ash_ton's review

medium-paced

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

2.75

This book was... okay. I wasn't really invested in the story during any point in the book. I feel bad because it's so great that there's trans and queer rep in a teen book, but I can't rate it high just for that.

The plotline idea was cool, just maybe not the execution? I just felt like I needed more. Idk. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Outing, and Transphobia

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Body horror, Deadnaming, Bullying, Grief, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Dysphoria

Minor: Sexual content, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Cursing

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Confinement, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Outing, and Deadnaming

Moderate: Grief, Lesbophobia, Child death, Death, Bullying, Child abuse, Homophobia, Death of parent, Racism, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Racial slurs, Misogyny, Animal death, Dysphoria, and Religious bigotry

julieyael's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Homophobia, Racism, Bullying, Confinement, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Body shaming, Death, Deadnaming, and Outing

thesupermassive's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Transphobia, and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent and Homophobia

rockyroadbutch's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Blood, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, and Sexual content

Minor: Dysphoria, Pregnancy, and Classism

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Transphobia, Deadnaming, Confinement, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Violence

Minor: Homophobia, Cursing, Suicide, and Racism

outtoexist's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective slow-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

3.5

This is an absolutely amazing book, but I just don't like the dream-like trace magical realism style. It is too slow and unclear for my preferences. However, the meat of this story is incredible and it has beautiful things to say about being trans. I do suggest it, despite my own rating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Deadnaming, and Death of parent

Moderate: Blood and Child abuse

Minor: Homophobia

mkosmos's review

hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Transphobia, Bullying, and Confinement

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

valereads's review

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I came into this book knowing very little about the plot itself and I felt that was a good place to start from. For those who do want to know a bit more this book follows two childhood friends, a trans boy called Sam and a girl with roses growing out of her wrists named Miel, as they come to terms with the fact they have fallen in love with each other. While this is happening Sam is just beginning to come to terms with the fact that he is transgender (a fact everybody except him seems to be aware of) and four local sisters are attempting to steal Miel's roses by whatever means necessary. On top of this there is also the mystery of where Miel comes from and what happened to her family that will have any reader intrigued.

There's little more I can say than this book was beautiful. The prose was lyrical and fairy tale-esque, and reading it felt like dreaming. That wasn't always a good thing though. As much as I enjoyed every other element of this novel, and I definitely did, it took me longer than I'd like to connect to the characters. That fairy tale, dreamlike quality to the writing made me feel distant from them. At times I found it easier to connect with the antagonistic Bonner sisters than with the main protagonists.

Overall I enjoyed this book very much. I think McLemore really did capture the trans experience well (no surprise as the author themself has come out as non-binary since writing it). This was my first time reading one of McLemore's books and I look forward to reading more from them in future.

Content Warnings: transphobia, homophobia, misgendering, outing, blackmail, racism, attempted suicide, drowning

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Deadnaming, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Confinement

Moderate: Racism