Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Sunshine Court by Nora Sakavic

43 reviews

flowerparrish's review

emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I have wanted this book desperately since 2016 and it lived up to every hope of what it could be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Gaslighting, Grief, Confinement, Violence, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Bullying, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Slavery

Moderate: Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Murder, Trafficking, Torture, Suicide, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Stalking

Minor: Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Cursing, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Mental illness, Drug use, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

lara11209's review

dark emotional hopeful 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Confinement, Rape, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Bullying, Blood, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

finiteworlds's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Mental illness, Torture, Emotional abuse, Violence, Rape, Sexual violence, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Blood

Minor: Confinement and Child death

starrypinksky's review

dark emotional funny hopeful tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Sexual violence, Violence, Self harm, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Child abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Domestic abuse, Suicide attempt, Death, Rape, Violence, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, War, Vomit, and Trafficking

natnat_7's review

dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Panic attacks/disorders, Bullying, Suicide, Physical abuse, Torture, Sexual violence, Self harm, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Body horror

Moderate: Gaslighting, Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Homophobia, Medical content, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

veolie's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

“I am just a Moreau,” Jean said, flat and fierce. “I am not—” “

So was Elodie

,” Neil reminded him, and Jean stopped breathing. “Remember that the next time you think you aren’t worth saving.”

I was scared of the book ending, I don't want it to end, checking the status bar all the time, keep reading paragraphs again and again so that they will last longer, until I soaked every word up and burned it into my memory.

I would've liked the story to be about Jean learning to love himself, disattached from Jerejean (I'm more of a Renejean type of person anyways), but I guess the majority of the crowd really looked forward to it and Nora delivered on that note.

This book is what we all wanted, but didn't know we needed yet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Self harm, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Torture

allforevermore's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Can I give more than 5 stars? Cause if I could I would because it's what this book deserves. I put those 5 stars when it showed up because I knew, I just knew, it was going to be good and I WAS RIGHT!!
My heart and soul are so broken, it took me two whole days to read it because I kept taking breaks to cry and try my best to deal with what was going on.
I'm so proud of Jean, he went through so much even as a little kid, he suffered so much yet, somehow, he found the strength to wake up and deal with another day, another torture, another practice. He never deserve any of that. I wish I could protect him and give him every that's good in life.

Thank you Nora, thank you for making this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Emotional abuse, Sexual violence, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Violence, Confinement, Mental illness, Sexual assault, and Rape

Moderate: Bullying, Suicide, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, and Self harm

Minor: Blood, Child abuse, Abandonment, Murder, Cursing, Death, and Suicide attempt

fanboyriot's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

♡ Jean Healing

♡ So Many Queer Characters

♡ Jeremy Being an Absolute Sweetheart

Everything about this book was fucking amazing!!  And the fact Nora had her sister design the cover again was so awesome.  While yes, a lot of this book was sad and filled with all the things Jean had to deal with—or at least most of the things he had to deal with, there was healing, a glimpse of hope for him and oh my god, if he doesn’t get the happiest of endings I will riot. 

Jeremy, the sunshine court himself was so wholesome.  His patients with Jean was written so lovely.  Their friendship (that hopefully is something more later) is so wonderful.  Jeremy doesn’t push Jean but doesn’t let him get away with his old methods of self-comfort.  There is a lot of work for Jean to do as far as getting fid of the Raven mentality/lifestyle but it’s so nice to see the start of healing with the shit hand of life he was dealt.  All the moments were Cat was teaching Jean how to cook and the forehead kisses were everything.  And Wymack being the stubborn person he can be, helping Jean while he recovers, like bro—I love Wymack so much 😭 he treated Jean as if he were one of his foxes.

Kevin being called out for his fanboy behavior for the USC Trojans had be laughing so much.  Neil being an absolute icon with his attitude problem still intact, and his ability to be a little shit to all authority figures was hilarious to read.  I was also really happy about Jean and Renee’s friendship, it was perfect.

Overall, I adored this book.  Reading about all the old characters again was so nice and the new characters were wonderful (a few got what they deserved, they know who they are) but USC is going to be a wonderful place to Jean to get the life he finally deserves.  And I’m so happy for him.

Spice Level: n/a

Angst Level: 💧💧💧💧💧 (5/5)

POV: Duel, Third Person

Release Date: 13, April 2024

Rep: Bisexual(Main Character), Gay, Queer (Main and Side Characters), Lesbian (Side Characters), Trans (Side Character), Non-Binary (Side Character), Poly (Side Characters), LGBTQIA+ (Main and Side Characters, BIPOC (Side Characters)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Sexual violence, Death, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Eating disorder, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Gaslighting, Gore, Bullying, Murder, Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Confinement, and Homophobia

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, Sexual assault, Child death, Rape, and Suicide attempt

colecordium's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT SO LONG FOR THE NEXT ONE???????

Also Jean Moreau needs to be protected at all cost, I would die for this boy. 😭

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual assault, and Rape

pa1nted's review

dark emotional hopeful sad tense 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: Physical abuse, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Grief, Murder, Child death, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Trafficking, Cursing, and Drug use

Minor: Medical content, Confinement, Abandonment, Blood, Forced institutionalization, and Homophobia