Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar

84 reviews

akswhy's review

challenging emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

To say I loved this book would be an understatement. When I finished it, I wanted to tear apart my (wildly annotated) copy apart with my bare hands and eat it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Torture

Moderate: Confinement

peggy_racham's review against another edition

4.75

A war across time and space, love across the same. Two agents and lovers. I loved reading this book,falling in love with the characters, as they are falling on love with eachother. The descriptions of love as a hunger, as violent, profane but beautiful and full of life. And its lesbians.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Death, Genocide, Medical content, Gun violence, War, Body horror, and Confinement

oliii_24's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, Grief, Suicide, and Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Confinement

Minor: Torture

lizzield's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Confinement, War, and Suicide attempt

dannothedino's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Mental illness, Blood, Forced institutionalization, Suicide attempt, Violence, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and War

Moderate: Vomit, Murder, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Animal death, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, and Torture

Minor: Abandonment and Cannibalism

miss_sunshine's review

adventurous emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Vomit, and War

Moderate: Murder, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, and Suicide

the_true_monroe's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

I read this for a queer book club and I was very hesitant at first as the writing style was beautiful yet so difficult for me to understand. 

Despite how confused I was throughout the book, I think I was able to follow along well enough to at least very much understand and LOVE the ending. 

Also, the cover is beautiful!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Animal death, and Death

Moderate: Body horror and Blood

Minor: Confinement, Genocide, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Torture, and Suicide

theirgracegrace's review

adventurous emotional reflective fast-paced

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

4.5

In the endless battle between the dystopian Agency and the utopian Garden, agents battle across time. Travelling up and down the threads of time, Red and Blue come across one another by pure chance...or is it? Red belongs to the Agency and Blue is part of the Garden, but through a series of letters, their relationship turns from rivals, to friends, to something more. I adored the settings of their letters and the ending completely blew me away. I will definitely recommend it to my friends!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, Murder, Body horror, Confinement, Grief, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Cursing

Minor: Colonisation, Genocide, and Pandemic/Epidemic

alexalily's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Stalking, Animal death, Torture, Death, and War

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

I'm glad I had this on a long trip, because that made me read it slower. If I had breezed through it in a day, I don't think it would have had the same impact on me. I love when stories are just a bit incomprehensible in the settings or mechanics. I don't need to know what the war is about, how the timelines work, how some of the letters could possibly be orchestrated, I just loved the devotion and ferocity between Red and Blue. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Murder, Violence, Grief, and War