Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

70 reviews

sophiemartin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense 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

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

creationwing's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

The story was fine, and the descriptions of nature were quiet good. I found it could be verbose at times, and, as others have pointed out, the dialogue was wasn't the strongest. While I liked the characters like Jumpin and such, the author builds tension only to accidentally deflate it too quickly and too soon. I have mixed feelings about this book. I got emotional at times, but it was lacking something that made the transition between the two (eventually coinciding) timelines choppy. The time jump in the last few chapters felt especially abrupt.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Toxic relationship, and Blood

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Drug use, Infertility, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Stalking, Car accident, Sexual harassment, and War

Graphic depictions of domestic violence, including against children.

A (frankly unnecessary) scene involving racist hate crime and slurs.

First period Coercion of sex / dubious consent / wear her down Some injuries are described quite graphically, more than expected, at least Implied painful sexual experiences. Attempted sexual assault.

mxpringle's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Alcoholism, Confinement, Racism, and Death of parent

lanid's review against another edition

mysterious reflective

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

keliza23's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Sexual content, Slavery, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

cdt96's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? No

4.0

Fantastic book, the only issue is how the black characters have been portrayed as stereotypical archetypes. This added with the controversy surrounding the author makes it lose some score for me. Ultimately though, the book is good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Cursing, Infidelity, Racism, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

flowerowl's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad slow-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

4.25

In the beginning I found it hard to get back to, but as soon as the

the guy was found dead

and the past and the nearer past started to intertwine it was very capturing. Normally I don't like it when story lines jump, but in this case it was very well done, even the beginning part that I found less capturing was well set up to then be able to fully invested for the rest of the book, making you think "ooh maybe he done it!". I was afraid that we whold get a unsatisfying ending, and i some ways a maybenwas ,but it was perfectly in line with how She was!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Murder, and Abandonment

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Racism, and Violence

Minor: Animal death, Infertility, and Racial slurs

missrosymaplemoth's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Sexual harassment

zoeelora's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

jfield351's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

3.5

This book was very well written and easy to read.
For me, it did not live up to the hype because I was able to guess the ending quite early on. 

The lack of her memories about that night was very suspicious. It was also suspicious that no one else was accused. The only time I thought that maybe it wasn’t her was when the sheriff took tate away. but that was just because his father had died

. There were some very interesting facts in here, the ‘sneaky fuckers’ theory and general animal behaviour is what i am currently studying in zoology and evolution. so that was really interesting. Having been written by a zoologist was very interesting!! I also really liked the line ‘giving away another piece of herself just to have someone else’ when she laughed for chase. really hit deep.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and War