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The Binding by Bridget Collins

41 reviews

shelvey's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

paperlo's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-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? Yes

4.5

I truly had a wonderful time reading this book - the start was a little slow but it was worth sticking with, because once the story got going it became a truly wonderful adventure. My only problem is that I think the story needed just a few more chapters, or at least one - it ended just as I wanted it to, but I really wanted to see a little glimpse beyond the ending, to have a few more questions answered. I think that would have been a lot more satisfying as a whole.

That being said, I love the characters and thought the various twists were interesting and well done. It gets quite dark in places, never overwhelmingly so. All in all, fun and exciting. A lovely read! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicide

tamsynh's review

dark 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Vomit

cherry__tomatoes's review

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.25

Really great read. I really liked the first two parts of the book. I especially loved the first part and how the author handled it. The last part of the book was a tad bit confusing to me, but overall a really good read, and I really enjoyed the ending. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Death, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

orlagal's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Body shaming, Child death, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Outing, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

tinyjude's review

dark sad slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

Generalmente, no tengo problema con personas no lgtbi+ (por lo que he podido encontrar en internet) escribiendo historias con personajes protagonistas lgtbi+, pero cuando toda la historia se centra en la homofobia y en cómo los obligan a borrar sus recuerdos por ser gays, ahí tengo un problema (por no hablar de como es otro caso de una mujer hetero escribiendo historias con hombres gays y centrándose en el sexo más que en desarrollar los personajes...)

El libro te vende una idea muy buena e interesante que podría haber dado lugar a conocer una gran cantidad de personajes y experiencias diferentes, buenas y malas, así como reflexiones sobre los libros y el por qué leemos y escribimos. Sin embargo, esto es un libro de romance centrado en el dolor y trauma de los personajes. Las mujeres reciben abusos sexuales y luego se les fuerza a olvidar para continuar violándolas (quizás esto era una crítica social, pero el modo en que todo ha terminado, no me hace creer que lo sea), o se les miente y manipula. Hay muchas preguntas que no se llegan a responder, pero eso no es tan relevante como el hecho de que Bridget ha creado un mundo de fantasía donde podría haber diseñado una historia de amor queer sin centrarla en la homofobia y el dolor (ya tenemos suficiente de eso en la vida real, gracias). Con todo, mi mayor problema es que la encuadernación es utilizada para agredir continuamente a víctimas y se convierte en una terapia de conversión que me hizo vomitar. Y aunque no creo que Bridget apoye la terapia de conversión por razones obvias (cómo termina la historia), ninguna de las personas que los maltrataron a ellos y ellas sufre consecuencias, y gran parte de las escenas de amor entre Emmett y Lucian son escenas de sexo que no se describen pero a las que se alude de forma constante. Me hubiera gustado ver más escenas de ellos simplemente conociéndose, riendo o haciendo más cosas de parejas.

Por último y una de las cosas que más me repugna de la autora es que es una TERF (podéis comprobarlo por las organizaciones que sigue en Twitter y tweets a los que les da like). Los derechos Trans son derechos humanos y es horrible que aún haya gente que tenga estas visiones tan retrógradas. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Forced institutionalization, and Sexual violence

miamcmillan's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.5

i adored this book more than i can say. the romance was beautiful and the writing  gorgeous. the premise was really interesting, i’m not sure i can ever read another book without thinking of the lore of this one lol. i loved lucian and emmett so much, they felt very believable and had good development in my opinion. i also found the setting really intriguing - it almost had a more sinister, slightly less overtly pastoral thomas hardy feel at times. how beautifully written it is really stands out to me;

not reallyyyyy a spoiler but there is a passage after lucian and emmett get together where bridget collins describes their summer together before alta forgives lucian and it was entrancing. i’ve thought about it so much since reading it

the only reason it’s not 5 stars is because i found part one a little slow. i just fell in love with this book and it’s characters, truly enjoyed it so much. one of the lovelier books i’ve read recently <3 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Homophobia, Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Rape, and Suicide

the_one_krissy's review

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.5

I hesitated between two and three stars for this one, because even though the premise was really interesting, the story didn't feel engaging at all to me, and reading it eventually became an unpleasant chore. I disliked both Emmett and Lucian, despised Lucian's father and de Havilland, and didn't actually enjoy reading about ANY of the characters with the exception of Seredith, who died very early on. There was way too little about the actual binding and way too much endless angsting. Plus everybody was constantly freezing to death, which for some reason annoyed me immensely.

This book just wasn't a good match for me. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia, Violence, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Suicide

larawade's review

challenging dark mysterious medium-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

4.75

I loved this book. I read most of it all in one day. It’s such an interesting concept of what books and stories are, while being intense, moving, and generally an absorbing tale. Loved it loved it loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Suicide

This book deals with the removal and telling of events that people wish to forget, the most painful ones, which means some of the most horrific things that people do to each other are mentioned, talked about and experienced by the characters.

heytayashleigh's review

slow-paced

• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

1.0

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Content Warnings

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