Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

In the Quick by Kate Hope Day

6 reviews

dotarvi's review

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This is not a romance novel. Ignore the publisher's description of this book. This is a story about a brilliant young woman who understands engineering problems, but not people, and the relationships she manages to build anyway. There is some weird stuff in there that comes from Jane Eyre, but it really isn't the point. The audio book was brilliantly narrated.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Medical content

Moderate: Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Grief, and Blood

beccaand's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Vomit, Sexual content, and Confinement

badbrhireads's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense slow-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? No

3.25

i love a good space fiction! rlly enjoyed the book, the main character kinda read to me as neurodivergent so it was nice to see the little things in there

i did find the whole age gap romance to be very gross and it kinda took me out of the book… i know he was a complex character but i really didn’t like him…

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

sfbookgirl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed the book for the author’s ability to vividly capture the main character’s experience of isolation and the fear of the unknown. Female astronaut June begins her space career as a young adolescent by enrolling in the National Space Program at the age of twelve. Six years later, she achieves the title of engineer. 

 

June’s story revolves around the missing spacecraft named Inquiry that disappeared when she was twelve years old. Now as an eighteen-year-old, June is haunted by the mystery of the spacecraft and is determined to find out what happened to the missing crew. Filled with easy-to-understand spacecraft terminology and the momentum of exploring the unknown, In the Quick is an excellent story for space lovers and for readers who enjoy the thrill of adventure rooted in a not-so-distant future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, Gore, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Child abuse, Confinement, and Addiction

aodhfyn's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

This story is... Interesting. In broad terms, it's well written, engaging, and contemplative. But when it comes to the mood it is often tense and sorrowful. There are few genuinely happy moments, and because of the way it's written there were numerous times I felt detached and dissociated. Additionally, I am not a fan of the ending. Specifically:

I hated James, and detest the fact that she goes back to him.

That really is a major spoiler, by the way. Anyway. Because of its quality, and the high degree of recognition I felt toward the main character, the flaws don't hold it back too much for me. But... They're still too much for me to feel happy about the book. Which is sad.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Blood, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Medical trauma, Medical content, and Grief

Read this if you are concerned about potential triggers or my review. If simply listing those triggers is already a lot, it may be best not to read this either.

this book was hard to read after about page 130+ because of the toxicity of James, specifically drug abuse, medically abusing and containing a companion due to obsession, (including gaslighting and forced drug abuse), mania, and a relationship with the main character that, unfortunately, does not end with those details coming to light. There are also depictions of tangible harm throughout the story, but not so graphic that I believe it would bother the average reader beyond a surface-level empathy pain or so.

kayleyhyde's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

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

2.0

Listen, normally when I don't like a book, I can see what it was about it that didn't work for me, but would work for others, but I felt like this was just...bad. The MC spends about 50% of the book as a 12 year old (idk why she had to be 12 except she isn't taken v seriously), the "romance" doesn't begin until the last like 60 pages (and is with a guy who knew her when she was a literal child and he was already an adult?), NONE of the science is actually explained (which is written off has her not being able to put into words her ideas), and a man is described as smelling "feral" not once, but twice. I had to read it, so now you do too. Underdeveloped, oddly paced (hopped forward through the story very strangely), and NOT the feminist Martian I was promised. I hate poorly reviewing things but damn, y'all. Also I'm so confused by the synopsis of this book talking about a "fiery love affair that threatens a rescue mission," like...that just doesn't happen. Or if it does, it's about three pages of the whole novel. And also I saw this on LGBTQIA+ lists and it's BARELY there so please don't go in looking for it. Okay, I'm done ranting now. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Vomit

Minor: Confinement and Sexual content