Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson

10 reviews

clacksee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Gaslighting, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Confinement

Moderate: Murder and Rape

Minor: Racism, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm

kirstym25's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Mental illness, and Torture

Moderate: Racism, Confinement, and Sexual assault

Minor: Rape

mysterymom40's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Murder, Sexual assault, Torture, and Gore

Moderate: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Confinement, and Medical content

Minor: Self harm

pibbit's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Torture, and Death

Moderate: Confinement, Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Rape and Dementia

pulpandprose's review

dark tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Violence, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Mental illness

tanuandbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

It's a solid page-turner! We don't know who the killer is till the very last page! 

Henley quickly became a fave character and I wanna read more books from the series! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Murder, Racism, Sexual harassment, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Violence, Child death, Rape, Self harm, Kidnapping, and Panic attacks/disorders

molsreads's review

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Confinement, Sexual assault, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, and Rape

amandas_bookshelf's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

locpressedbooks_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Blood, Murder, and Confinement

Moderate: Dementia, Violence, Torture, Sexual harassment, Rape, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Pregnancy and Miscarriage

librariangeorgia's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-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

4.5

I bloody loved this book. I enjoyed it just as much as THE JIGSAW MAN. It’s a very dark gritty detective thriller series which I am loving - it’s been a while since I’ve read one like this. 

 

The plot for this book follows a series of ritualistic murders which I found to be very interesting. The writing style of this series fits that dark storyline. A big part of this book is mental health which I found was handled really well - not just the victims/suspects but the investigating team as well. 

 

I found it very gripping, I literally couldn’t stop reading it and kept wanting to know more. The writing is fantastic and I love the character development for the investigating team. We knew a bit about them from the previous book, but this one has expanded on that a lot more for each of the characters. I am loving Henley and Ramouter’s friendship in this book. They bounced off each other really well. 

 

The only negative thing I’d have to say about this book is that it’s an absolute CHONK of a book. I honestly think it could’ve been shortened by about 100 pages and still contain all the necessary details. 

 

Overall, I loved everything about this book and I honestly can say that Matheson is one of my favourite authors, and an auto-buy author. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Confinement, Death, Dementia, Gore, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Rape, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, Suicide, and Torture