Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

191 reviews

chloseencounter's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-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

4.0

This book began in a way that I thought I knew exactly where it was going to go but flipped so I could’ve never predicted what would happen. When you intake so much horror it can all start to feel similar and I’m impressed with what this story accomplished. I was drawn in by the POV of a cat but enjoyed this read more than I could’ve ever anticipated. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

georgiaaa's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

uchihas's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.5

Genuinely the first TikTok recommendation I’ve enjoyed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Death of parent, and Murder

Minor: Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Stalking

onmalsshelf's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Mental illness

hannamy's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

dfrancis's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Pedophilia, Grief, and Death of parent

reburkah's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-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

2.5

I read sundial first and really enjoyed the writing and went into this one hoping for the same and was excited. I found this one to be hard to get into initially and I found the "plot twist" to be shown incredibly early on. If you're not someone who reads a lot of thrillers, I think you'll enjoy this book a lot more than someone who does. I will read other books by this author but this wasn't my favorite which sucks because the cover is so stunning! 

I personally find myself to be someone who is incredibly tired of mental illness being the plot twist in all these thriller/horror books. This is nothing against Catriona Ward, I really enjoy her writing and her premises but I found this book specifically to start a lot of threads it doesn't finish and that it was exploitative in its handling of mental illness. The character is portrayed as violent, murderous and unhinged for 90% of the books and then the afterword says people with this condition are misunderstood and badly portrayed in media. 🤷‍♀️

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Content Warnings

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

angelakay's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Ho-ly shit, guys, I don’t know where to start with this one. It’s very hard to know what to say about this book–even the genre–without getting into spoilers. So let’s just say that there’s a very strange man that lives in kind of a sad house with his cantankerous daughter and a Bible-reading cat. And a new next door neighbor whose little sister disappeared at a nearby lake 11 years ago. And…nothing is exactly what it seems. I am often disappointed when books advertise “so many twists and turns!!” because a lot of times you can see the “twists” coming a mile away. That…was not the case here. It’s hard to get into content warnings without spoilers, but let’s just say it is quite dark in places and I can absolutely see how some people would nope out pretty quickly. But it’s all done in the service of a really rich and earnest story and not shock value.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Torture, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Child death

agriffin's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, and Alcohol

oonareads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail