Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

破晓 by Stephenie Meyer

5 reviews

nonidude's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

Quite pleased with the overall plot and ending. I don't really like any of the characters (except Alice), but I enjoyed the book regardless. It was a quick read for being almost 500 pages - tempo and structure was solid.

One author complaint would be the adjectives. "Medium build" and "nondescript" and "average looking" are a few that come to mind...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting and Car accident

Minor: Confinement, Death, Addiction, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Gore

lonely_tardigrade's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

1.0

I only reread this to go through and highlight all the signs of abuse. Almost every page had a highlight on it. No idea why this is still considered a romance novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Medical content, Stalking, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual harassment, Confinement, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, and Torture

Minor: Sexual content, Death of parent, Cannibalism, Death, and Rape

darkefyres's review against another edition

emotional relaxing medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Car accident

Moderate: Stalking, Confinement, and Medical content

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, Colonisation, Death, Toxic friendship, and Animal death

grboph's review against another edition

dark 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

This is maybe one of the worst books I've ever read. I am legitimately unsure why my eleven-year-old self enjoyed them as much as she did. Probably for the reasons I gave it two and a half stars, which is pure entertainment value and being unintentionally hilarious at times. But seriously, I'm not sure how this book was even published. The writing is terrible, the characters are all incredibly annoying (all for completely different reasons), and Edward and Bella's relationship, which is held up as being romantic and perfect and star-crossed, is actually very toxic and abusive (one of their first ever conversations is just Edward gaslighting the hell out of Bella and it made me quite uncomfortable). This book (and the series) makes an excellent hate-read, and I'm definitely going to be finishing out the series at some point soon. The only people I think I'd seriously recommend this book to are eleven-year-old girls or someone who I really want to confuse. However, I'd recommend it to anybody else looking for something comically bad and cringey to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Car accident, Confinement, Violence, Medical content, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Death of parent, Suicide attempt, Death, and Abandonment

chloevienna's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Suicide attempt, Violence, Stalking, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Car accident, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder, and Panic attacks/disorders