Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

176 reviews

pipbiz's review against another edition

dark hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Murder, Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Suicide attempt, Self harm, and Kidnapping

Minor: Homophobia

jennay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Alcoholism, Suicide, Child abuse, Grief, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Murder, Confinement, Blood, and Medical content

Minor: Self harm, Torture, Child death, and Animal cruelty

shadeyc's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

4.5
Whoa. That was a trip. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, and Torture

Moderate: Confinement, Animal cruelty, and Injury/Injury detail

whimsicalish's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful tense fast-paced

4.25

From the synopsis, I figured this was either a silly, half-baked story or a trope thriller mess.

I am happy to say it was much more.

This had me on a ride from tense, to anger, and then finally hope.

I will have to check out more work from Ward.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Confinement, and Death

Minor: Death of parent and Suicidal thoughts

hunkydory's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Violence, Animal death, Death, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Murder, and Torture

maverax42's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

5.0

This book keeps you guessing and unsure of what is true and real until the very end. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Child death, Confinement, Gaslighting, Blood, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Suicide attempt

illtakethenightshiftx's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

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

3.0

I’m not sure if I can give a summary of this book without spoiling the whole plot, so I won’t. 

Wow. This was a story I wasn’t expecting. I felt intense sadness experiencing this story and I’m still wrestling with whether I actually enjoyed this book or not. There some “wait…what?!” moments that totally stopped me in my tracks, but, for me, the feeling I felt the most while listening was sadness and varying degrees of hollowness. The story felt a little disjointed at times because of the changing narrator points of view, but it may have also been because I listened to it over the course of a week and a half or so. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Mental illness, and Child abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Confinement

aignerloren's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Torture, Violence, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Child abuse, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Blood, Mental illness, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Confinement

keen's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, Animal cruelty, Mental illness, Violence, Child abuse, Confinement, and Torture

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Abandonment, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, and Pedophilia

Minor: Medical content, Adult/minor relationship, and Suicide attempt

cady_sass's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

This is the first time ever that I’ve read a LOT of other reviews before deciding on my final feelings. I went into this blind, because that seemed to be the recommendation and also my preference with most books anyways. I was expecting horror/thriller/possibly speculative fiction? And I don’t think it’s any of those, which perhaps leads to me feeling a little disappointed. If I had to assign a genre I guess would call it psychological mystery. It’s a very slow build, and there are very few horror or thriller elements here. I guessed the “big twist” about 3 chapters in, but the final reveal I did not expect. 

After reading more reviews from people i follow, it seems like it is widely agreed that going in blind was definitely best, and i agree, and that most of the 5 star reviews I see are upon SECOND read. Which makes a lot of sense. I would probably give this 3.75… it is REALLY hard to talk about this without spoilers. Up until the last few chapters, I had some serious qualms with the representation here and how it could be damaging. I fear that because of the way it’s written, this could be triggering and people would not understand the full story or even finish it, so even though I can retract my claws (pun intended) I think the damage can still be done. I will attempt a second read at some point and see if my feelings change. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Physical abuse, Ableism, Addiction, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, Animal cruelty, Blood, Self harm, Drug use, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, and Suicide attempt