Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

64 reviews

paperkindle's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

3.0

It started out slow but then it turned into a good read. Not really overwhelmed by it. And the end was lacked a bit of closure. 

Similar books: The hunger games, The knife of never letting go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Abandonment, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Misogyny

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Blood

Minor: Vomit

meghan_w's review against another edition

This one is a little too dark for me right now. I might come back and finish it down the road.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Torture, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Murder, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Dysphoria, Bullying, Blood, Violence, Death, Confinement, and Physical abuse

erinomaista's review

medium-paced

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

3.5

The book was an enjoyable read and it had such an interesting concept! But I thought it could’ve been better executed. The entire plot essentially hinged on a relationship that seriously squicked me out,

Tierney and one of the Poachers who were literally hunting 16 year old girls so they could skin them alive

and I thought the ending was really disappointing

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Drug use, Gore, Confinement, Homophobia, Murder, Suicide, Violence, Bullying, Pregnancy, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Lesbophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Blood, Cannibalism, Classism, Sexism, and Torture

bubblybelle's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Child death, Gore, Murder, Sexism, and Blood

Moderate: Gaslighting and Confinement

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

kirkspockreads's review

Not good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Confinement, Murder, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Death, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Torture

shannonredwine8's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gaslighting, Murder, Toxic friendship, Classism, Confinement, Death, Religious bigotry, Vomit, Child death, Colonisation, Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Violence, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child death, Body horror, Cannibalism, Bullying, Blood, and Animal death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Emotional abuse, Bullying, Animal death, Cannibalism, Blood, Grief, and Gore

emilylandry's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Blood, Gaslighting, and Bullying

Moderate: Body horror and Pregnancy

Contains pregnancy and description of childbirth

katelynndzindzio's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

This book follows the journey of Tiereny and depicts how she matures and adapts to the world she is in and tries to be that change that needs to happen. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Classism, Child abuse, Toxic friendship, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and Mental illness

Minor: Pregnancy

emilywemily6's review

dark 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? It's complicated

4.0

This book was a lot and I am still sifting through my feelings. It felt like a mix of The Handmaid’s Tale, Lord of the Flies, and The Hunger Games. This story was gruesome and the oppression the women are conditioned for within this society is horrendous. Unlike The Handmaid’s Tale, this book was more bizarre and less relatable to our current day, definitely leaning more towards horror than pure dystopian fiction. There was a lot of mystery inherent to the plot since no one in the community talks about what happens during the grace year, and I think my lack of knowledge about the book beyond the synopsis helped me enjoy the reading experience more. There were a lot of twists and turns and I really didn’t know where the book was headed! I really hated reading about the magic/madness of the girls in the enclosure and almost DNFed because I was very unsettled and frustrated with the behavior. This book was also pretty gorey. The romantic subplot was sweet and wholesome but I wanted more depth/deeper connection between the characters; they seemed to jump from trusting each other platonically to becoming intimate. The last 50 or so pages broke me. This book also uses a lot of ambiguity, which was intriguing yet sometimes frustrating. I really liked the realistic approach at the end where the girls supported each other in public for the first time, and while the world was the same, the girls and women were not. A sequel would be really fun to read to see how this world changes overtime! Revolution doesn’t happen in an instant. Lots of interesting themes that make this a great discussion book for YA and adults alike, though some of the author’s choices seemed to be more for shock value than for furthering the plot. Reading about sixteen year old girls was also not my favorite because these are the worst sixteen year old girls I have ever heard of.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, Child death, Murder, Sexual harassment, Stalking, Trafficking, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Blood, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Classism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Transphobia, Violence, Suicide, Death, and Self harm

Moderate: Medical content, Ableism, and Sexual content

Minor: Infertility

rachelcotter1's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Toxic friendship, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, and Domestic abuse