Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell

9 reviews

vaguely_pink's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Classism, Cursing, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood

Moderate: Homophobia, Medical content, Sexual content, Body shaming, Bullying, Biphobia, Animal death, Classism, Fatphobia, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Confinement, Alcohol, Suicide, Ableism, Deportation, Drug abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

sabinehunter's review

adventurous emotional funny medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Animal death, Cursing, Violence, and Grief

reading_grin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.5

Ne zdaleka tak dobré jako první díl, ale lepší než druhý. Těžce soucítím s Bazem. Objevuje se zde můj oblíbený motiv: “schválně jak fungují končetiny navíc v této konkrétní knize”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Confinement, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcohol, Abandonment, Death of parent, Grief, Medical content, and Sexual content

headachesince03's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted fast-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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Confinement, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Animal death, Cursing, and Death of parent

ridesthesun's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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

4.25

OH THEY!!!!!!!!!!!!

The character work in this book is so damn brilliant. The journey they go on together and individually is beautiful. Everyone is dealing with so much trauma, and they're all a little bit of a mess, but the growth is SO GOOD. The antagonist in this one was really a fascinating twist, and seeing how it affected Simon was heartbreaking but made so much sense. 

The only thing keeping this from being a 5 is how suddenly it ended. I felt like we were just wrapping things up, we were healing, revelations were coming out, growth was sinking in, and then it ended. I just feel like there could have been a few more chapters to really wrap things up, to give closure to these characters and finish some of the loose storylines. I know that these are more character centric than plot centric stories, and I'm all for that, but it just felt like there were a lot of plot bits that never really got wrapped up. 

And what's gonna happen with Simon's magic?? What did Smith's spell actually do to him?? He was a mage all along, but what does that look like for him now?? It just felt like those were the questions that have been building for the last two books, and we never got them answered.

anyways, highly highly highly recommend. wingy and vampire boyfriends, rivals to lovers, magic goofiness, healing and growth and tender face touching. so much tender face touching. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Classism, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Medical content, Confinement, and Death

lunep's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Confinement, Medical content, and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Classism, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, and Murder

roodborstje's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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: Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Child abuse, Classism, Confinement, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Grief, Homophobia, and Murder

captainoliimar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Death, Cursing, Confinement, Animal death, Alcohol, Car accident, Grief, Murder, Stalking, and Violence

skudiklier's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective medium-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? Yes

4.75

God, I love this series.

It's a bit bittersweet because I've only recently become fully aware of the extent of Rainbow Rowell's issues--namely, her racism in her earlier book Eleanor & Park, and her subsequent lack of apology or any form of acknowledgement of the harm she's caused. Eleanor & Park continues to be her most well-known and successful work, and it's being adapted into a movie, and Rowell still hasn't done *anything* to make up for its racism. Which is inexcusable, and leads me to think I shouldn't support her or her work moving forward. 

That said, I do love this series. If I were to think of this book without that knowledge of Rowell's racism in her other work, then I would unreservedly recommend this trilogy, and say this book was my favorite of the three. It's so much about intimacy, and healing, and how to make relationships work, and family, and I cried even when I didn't need to at all. It was beautiful. 

But I don't believe the art and the artist can be separated like that--not when she has refused to listen to those she's harmed, or acknowledged said harm at all. I don't think Rowell or her work should be supported, at least for now. I won't be buying any of her future books unless she fully reckons with the harm her racism has caused.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, and Cursing

Moderate: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Grief, Homophobia, Medical trauma, and Animal death

Minor: Kidnapping, Child abuse, Murder, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Suicide attempt