Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

3 reviews

maregred's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Infidelity, and Blood

Moderate: Alcohol, Classism, Death of parent, Addiction, Death, and Sexual assault

Minor: Eating disorder, Homophobia, Suicide attempt, Drug use, Confinement, Gaslighting, Outing, Biphobia, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, and Suicide

venetiana's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense 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

0.25

Wanted to DNF but skipped over 160 pages instead (they were apparently unnecessary, because I was still able to figure out what had happened).

Frankly, I knew after about 5 pages that this book would be a huge waste of my time. The characters were extremely annoying and flat. The plot was predictable and cheap. I'm glad I decided to skip a chunk so I wasted less of my lifetime on this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, and Rape

Moderate: Homophobia, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Blood, Drug use, and Ableism

Minor: Abandonment, Confinement, Alcohol, Mental illness, Colonisation, and Medical content

sarah984's review

dark mysterious tense 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

This book really felt like a paint by numbers thriller to me. All of the characters are stock teen movie archetypes and the plot follows those archetypes exactly the whole way through. Also the editing really needed another pass: people's hearts "hammered" so often that I was thinking about starting a drinking game to fit the theme.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Addiction, Alcohol, Murder, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Drug use, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Gaslighting, Grief, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Misogyny, Rape, Violence, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Death of parent, Gore, Homophobia, Sexual content, Stalking, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Medical content, and Outing