Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Una última parada by Casey McQuiston

68 reviews

bg_oseman_fan's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

This was an incredible read. it really felt like a love story to 70’s queer history told in a way that brings it to the present. Casey’s characters are always people you want to root for, regardless of what is going on. She also managed to make it feel like we inhabited all the place in the story and befriended all of the characters. A really fun read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Hate crime, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Homophobia, and Violence

Minor: Lesbophobia, Sexism, Xenophobia, Confinement, Grief, Misogyny, Racism, Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Cursing, and Racial slurs

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

3.5

It was engaging, emotional, sexy, funny, sad, and sweet all the way through. I could pick it up and put it down and easily drop back into the story until I had another spare moment. The characters feel very real. I even teared up a few times! It's been a long time since I've read a book that so beautifully tells a story. I love McQuiston's way with language, and I love the queer representation. It's definitely worth the hype.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Confinement

Moderate: Abandonment and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia

piphux's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Abandonment

Moderate: Homophobia, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Death, and Mental illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Drug use, Biphobia, Transphobia, Police brutality, and Racism

rachelelouise's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious relaxing 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

4.75

I LOVED this book. If you like Casey McQuiston’s other books you’ll like this, but I thought it was even better than Red, White, and Royal Blue. I found it to be much more real and compelling, and the characters were much more relatable to me: they’re capital Q Queer, they’re radicals, they’re service workers, they have mom trauma, etc. This book made me swoon, laugh, cry, and long to go to a drag show.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Abandonment, Blood, Confinement, Police brutality, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Car accident, Cursing, Death, and Racism

crykea's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, and Alcohol

lipstickitotheman's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.0

Love love the ghost butch, and many of the background characters, but I'm not into the main character very much. The ending was sweet, but it lowkey felt like a betrayal of

Jane's character for her to stay in August's time. It's a fabulous ending for August, but it's really really tragic for Jane, and it's lightly addressed but Jane loses everything and everyone she's ever known except for August.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Grief, Death, Homophobia, Alcohol, Car accident, Lesbophobia, and Racism

mx_sunshine's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

I wanted to enjoy this more than I did. I loved the premise of this book. Time travel, the funky 70’s, girl in leather jacket, girls!
And there were parts of this book that made me laugh out loud.
But from the start I found it a bit.. cringey. The mother seemed one dimensional and I didn’t believe August’s childhood was realistic. It was just kind of told to the reader for us to accept that it’s second-nature for August to solve things and pick locks.
And I kept reading about how tough August was but I never got that from her? I get it, she carries a knife. There’s moments where the reader is told she “breaks character” and becomes “soft”. But it’s not really established.
I don’t feel like there was any character development. Maybe that’s because I didn’t connect with the characters.
I liked August’s roommates, Niko, Wes and Maya. But there was a lot of stuff that was thrown out there that wasn’t relevant.
Like a dog was introduced at the start and not mentioned beside a one-liner at the end?
I feel like this book could’ve been cut down a lot.
I loved the party scene and had a blast reading it. The Drag Queen names and performances were clever and funny.
There was just a lot of exposition. It felt like reading a character sheet at times when being confronted with pages of Jane’s monologue. Except it was just narration? I don’t think third person narration really helped this story as a romance.
I do see why people like this novel. In the first few chapters I realised this wasn’t for me but I was determined to see it through. The concept really excited me and I believed it would get better. Which it did, it picks up after the first half.
Overall it’s a fun, light book that I have taken a tad too seriously.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Confinement, Homophobia, and Sexual content

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny relaxing medium-paced

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

3.0

This was a really cute idea, but the writing style is a little to tell-instead-of-show for me. It also felt kind of long. But I can see why people would really like it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Confinement, Abandonment, Death, and Sexual content

Moderate: Car accident, Grief, Classism, Drug use, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Lesbophobia and Police brutality

Recommended for people who like their sexy scenes loooooong.

jenmcreads's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, and Hate crime

Moderate: Confinement, Hate crime, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Police brutality

leahrosiee's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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? No

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Confinement, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexism, Death, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Police brutality, Deadnaming, Racism, Violence, Outing, and Vomit