Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

75 reviews

littletiramisu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Murder, Slavery, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Drug abuse, Ableism, Addiction, and Drug use

lunar_witch's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Blood and Gun violence

Minor: Addiction and Confinement

alexandrabelze's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, Vomit, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Rape, Body horror, Sexual assault, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual violence, and Torture

Moderate: Classism, Drug use, Drug abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism

Minor: Pregnancy, Slavery, and War

wet_towlette's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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? Yes

4.5

I truly enjoyed this book. The writing is so elegant and all of the characters are so unique and so beautiful. It defies many ya tropes and you would be ridiculous to actively dislike this book. It kept me on my toes. I never knew what was part of the plan and what wasn’t but it all still made sense. The world and world building is fascinating. I do, however, have two main criticisms. Firstly, and probably least importantly, I found the writing to be unnecessarily dense at times. I understand the world is complicated and this definitely made the scene clearer, I still got bored occasionally. Secondly, I thought the ending was lacking. I’m not going to go into much detail because it’s not really important and probably mostly a personal preference. But for the amount of time that went into exploring not only these characters but also their relationships, I feel like there should’ve been a bit more. This kinda excludes kaz and inej.

Because after everything they endured it was impossible for them to have this grandiose ending. Their relationship can’t heal each other from all of that trauma. But bro maybe just like a hug or something would’ve been nice, you know?

I think that’s all I really have to say. Overall, an amazing duology and definitely worth the hype. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Slavery, Murder, Kidnapping, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Confinement, and Violence

Moderate: Trafficking, Alcohol, and Grief

relin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

The relationships in this book are so well done, the dramatic tension is so high and the last section had me in tears! I was rooting for everyone and was still surprised when everything came together the way it did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Outing, Blood, Classism, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Grief, Emotional abuse, Racism, Medical content, Cursing, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Addiction, and Ableism

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Slavery, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Confinement, Child death, Child abuse, Drug use, Mass/school shootings, and Sexual violence

For one of the final scenes there is shooting into a crowd

but it is one shot done by a person who will only hit one intended target for the heist to go off

. There is also a plague,

though it is also manufactured and doesn't harm people, but causes most of the city to go into confinement

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trycerabel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark 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

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Murder, Racism, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, War, Grief, and Gun violence

arys_library's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

Even better than the first book! I absolutely loved this book and I’m really hoping there’s a third one. I feel like it ended on a really good note but I’m gonna miss not reading about the crows if there isn’t another book. I love how this book dived more into the characters thoughts and their relationships with eachother, it made me feel even closer to them and felt like I was watching these events right in front of me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, and Blood

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Grief, Genocide, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Torture

Minor: Rape, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Animal death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Trafficking, and Drug use

flordemaga's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? Yes

5.0

This book makes me feral. This book produces so much emotions in me and the twists are unexpected but reasonable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual violence, War, Sexual assault, Rape, Death of parent, Torture, Child abuse, Child death, and Confinement

Minor: Domestic abuse, Forced institutionalization, Slavery, Emotional abuse, and Ableism

thesecretsapphic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Torture, Trafficking, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Violence, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Gore, Slavery, Death, Gun violence, Medical content, Religious bigotry, and Addiction

Moderate: Ableism

nebraskanwriter's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Trafficking, Alcoholism, Blood, Bullying, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Torture, Chronic illness, Confinement, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Slavery, and Violence