Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

A prisão do rei by Victoria Aveyard

25 reviews

ale24's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

This isn’t a popular opinion, but I actually liked this book more than the previous two books. It might be because it was finally warm enough to go outside to read, so I had a better time reading. However, I also feel like the action scenes in this series weren’t well written and/or just plain boring, and

Mare spent the majority of this book unable to use her special abilities. Which I think did a good job at keeping action scenes to a minimum and grow her character in this particular book. Plus I don’t really love her character so I didn’t mind seeing her go through a tough time (don’t judge me lol)

Maven seems like an interesting character and I was excited to see his character develop,

“Maven Calore is not his own self. He told me as much. He is a construct, a machine, soulless and lost”

but imo the author might have a small issue of telling over showing (I’ll admit that I think Maven and Evangeline are mostly written alright; They just are a little cheesy at times).  

Edit: I wrote the following before I read the next book (which fixed a couple issues and questions I had with King’s Cage), although I don’t feel some of it is true anymore I don’t want to get rid of it since it’s what I felt at the time. Just keep in mind that some of my opinions change in the following book, War Storm.

Credit where credit’s due,

I liked that the author included a male bisexual (or at least a multi sexual person) with a female main love interest and a potential lesbian (her only love interest is a woman so I can’t be sure, the author doesn’t say their sexualities explicitly) since authors usually default to including one gay guy to their books when adding LGBTQ+ characters (in my experience). The only thing is that these characters, as much as I like them, are some of the main antagonists in the book series. This is reminiscent of a pretty negative trope, although I suspect one of them may go through a redemption arc in the next book. While homophobia is not directly referenced, the coded lesbian character is unable to marry her love and has her brother marry her girlfriend instead  so that they can still stay with each other. I’m not sure I like this because the above situation resembles someone living in a homophobic society, meanwhile the text stays somewhat vague about how sexuality is thought of or treated in general. According to her character, her parents treat her surprisingly well despite not allowing her to marry a woman. Even so, when I was reading it I wondered if the reason they had to have heterosexual marriages (it’s unclear if that’s the case for everyone including Reds) was only so they could  produce offspring and not exactly for homophobic reasons. This leaves me conflicted because I can’t point out exactly what I don’t like about the situation, I just wish the book was more explicit in what it was trying to do.

There are many diverse characters, although I get the impression this is set in a color blind setting as there’s no mention or indication of racism. There’s also little mention of sexism or homophobia. Which some people may like or find it unrealistic/not well done (since the princess trials I still don’t know if they live in patriarchy because I guess they could still have a male version of that technically?). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Toxic relationship, and Classism

julienicole1106's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Sexual content

emmacartlidge's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Torture and Pregnancy

lotecider's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional 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

4.25

Absolutely amazing! Leaves you gripping your seats, eyes wide as you frantically turn the pages, desperate to continue. This book had me in tears, feeling happiness and sorrow and pity and everything in between. Amazing character development combined with superb world building and plot make this such a good read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, Blood, and War

kingspite618's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense 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

man do I enjoy seeing a bunch of fucked up insane and incredibly mentally ill teenagers and young adults make a bunch of incredibly problematic and questionable choices repeatedly like their lives depended on it for a whole series straight!!
5 stars cause everyone ate and slayed and delivered and served cunt. also relate to some of these characters on a spiritual level. they are just like me fr. also YASS

evil queer villains/spoiler> we love to see it!!
The character developments and arcs and overall construction of the characters is also incredible. Go read it right now!!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion, Murder, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

amanda_reads13's review against another edition

emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, and Classism

amanda_mh's review against another edition

challenging dark tense 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? Yes

4.25

Once again I enjoyed the journey Victoria Aveyard took us on. Enjoyed following Mare, and the addition of Cameron and Evangeline’s perspective was fascinating! Will be reading the fourth book soon!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and War

idkmangodffs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Injury/Injury detail

yourfellowbookworm22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense 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? Yes

4.0

This book was really good I honestly couldn’t put it down and really fell for the plot and characters, beautiful development and I loved the different POVS that were newly represented. :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, and Blood

sarahsheppard23's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Torture