Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Cujo by Stephen King

16 reviews

taviarz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Bad but entertaining

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Alcoholism, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Racial slurs, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual harassment

ayedrianreads's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Confinement

btrz7's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, and Infidelity

halfmysoul's review against another edition

challenging dark slow-paced

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

In terms of writing, this book is indeed worthy of 5 stars but it was genuinely horrifying. I knew to expect nothing less from the author but wow I was not prepared. I love King, I used to really want to read more books with the thriller/horror genre and the ones I read didnt really do it for me but his book's always ALWAYS had me getting chills up my spine, staying up late at night thinking about the story, etc etc. The writing in this book is of course amazing and although its a very interesting read, it isnt my favorite or one I would ever read again. The POV of Cujo is terrifying after he "turns bad" and the scenes of the mother's POV, while she's in the car, is possibly worse than the struggle scenes between her and Cujo. What happened to the little boy, and Cujo himself was horrifying. The way King describes everything is surreal and I had to close the book and get up often due to how graphic it is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Blood

meatballer's review against another edition

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

cujo my baby my baby myyyy bayyybeeee. stephen king saying that he was so high while he wrote this he doesn’t even remember it....and it shows 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Vomit, Violence, and Sexual content

shortstackkat's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I forgot how incredibly heartbreaking the ending is so it’s a really rough read in those final pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Confinement, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, and Child death