Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward

177 reviews

hannamy's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Mental illness

dfrancis's review

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Kidnapping, Death, Confinement, and Mental illness

Moderate: Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Pedophilia, Animal death, Death of parent, and Grief

reburkah's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

I read sundial first and really enjoyed the writing and went into this one hoping for the same and was excited. I found this one to be hard to get into initially and I found the "plot twist" to be shown incredibly early on. If you're not someone who reads a lot of thrillers, I think you'll enjoy this book a lot more than someone who does. I will read other books by this author but this wasn't my favorite which sucks because the cover is so stunning! 

I personally find myself to be someone who is incredibly tired of mental illness being the plot twist in all these thriller/horror books. This is nothing against Catriona Ward, I really enjoy her writing and her premises but I found this book specifically to start a lot of threads it doesn't finish and that it was exploitative in its handling of mental illness. The character is portrayed as violent, murderous and unhinged for 90% of the books and then the afterword says people with this condition are misunderstood and badly portrayed in media. 🤷‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Child abuse, and Child death

angelakay's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Ho-ly shit, guys, I don’t know where to start with this one. It’s very hard to know what to say about this book–even the genre–without getting into spoilers. So let’s just say that there’s a very strange man that lives in kind of a sad house with his cantankerous daughter and a Bible-reading cat. And a new next door neighbor whose little sister disappeared at a nearby lake 11 years ago. And…nothing is exactly what it seems. I am often disappointed when books advertise “so many twists and turns!!” because a lot of times you can see the “twists” coming a mile away. That…was not the case here. It’s hard to get into content warnings without spoilers, but let’s just say it is quite dark in places and I can absolutely see how some people would nope out pretty quickly. But it’s all done in the service of a really rich and earnest story and not shock value.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Torture

Moderate: Child death

agriffin's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Murder, Death, Gaslighting, Child death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Torture, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Child death, Blood, Excrement, Alcohol, Animal death, Vomit, and Animal cruelty

oonareads's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Confinement, Domestic abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

anwolf213's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Self harm, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Drug use, and Grief

owlribbon's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Confinement, Death, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Suicide, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death of parent, Torture, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

Minor: Homophobia

cardanrry's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Death of parent, Medical content, Murder, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal death, Grief, Kidnapping, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Homophobia

kcelena's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Torture, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Child death, Dysphoria, Fatphobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Gore, and Mental illness