Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Twin Crowns by Catherine Doyle

7 reviews

soph22's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny hopeful 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? No

4.75

At halfway through I ordered the next two books. Honestly, as a Disney girlie, I loved everything about this. The only reason it didn’t quite get to five stars is because the ending felt slightly rushed. Otherwise, this is one of my favourite books I’ve read this year!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Murder, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Child death, Alcohol, Blood, Gore, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

maregred's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Murder, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Sexism, and Confinement

2blueshoes's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.0

Sometimes in order to write convincing character development, your characters have to be very unlikable at the beginning of your book. For me, this was the case here. I almost stopped reading about a third of the way through, BUT I’m glad I didn’t. About half way through the book, Wren and Rose become much more thoughtful and less juvenile and their dialogue becomes much more witty and engaging. 

There is some romance in this story, but it is not the main focus, and the “heroes” are very much secondary characters. (Albeit very charming ones). Spiciness is fairly tame - it’s mostly longing looks. 

Overall a fun read, with increasingly like-able characters. (Low key obsessed with Celeste.) Not life changing - I did not want to stay up all night reading this book, but I’ll definitely read the next one in the series. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Gaslighting

Moderate: Kidnapping, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, and Murder

Minor: War, Confinement, Vomit, Sexual content, Death of parent, Animal death, and Sexual harassment

taryn_g's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, and Confinement

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Kidnapping

Minor: Alcohol and Animal death

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

Wow!!! That was so fun! That was SO FUN! What a blast! The magic, the political intrigue, the long lost twin, the surprise, the emotion! Wow this was great! I will say there really wasn’t any diversity in this book at all so for that I’m dropping it half a star but the plot was fun and the characters were really well fleshed out and I loved the two narrators for the different princesses!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Death of parent, Physical abuse, Violence, War, Confinement, Animal death, Blood, Child abuse, Classism, Death, Gore, Alcohol, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

morna's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Death, Xenophobia, Blood, Death of parent, Genocide, Murder, Sexism, War, and Kidnapping

frantically's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful 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? Yes

4.5

I was so pleasantly surprised by this! 😍 

"Twin Crowns" was the first book in months I was able to really focus on and speed through. It reminds me so much of the fantasy books from 4-5 years but in such a positive way. It's got great worldbuilding, interesting relationship and some great action at the end (and of course, the romance was nice, too 😉). 

I would definitely recommend it and I'm looking forward to the next book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Confinement, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death