Reviews tagging 'Forced institutionalization'

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff

4 reviews

max_pink's review

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.0

One of the worst feelings you can get from reading a book is feeling sleazy for engaging with it. 

Another terrible feeling is sighing at lines that try way too hard to be epic every few pages.

And fast-forwarding past footnotes that do absolutely nothing but slow the pacing to a crawl.

And being annoyed at the fetishy treatment of teenagers, lesbians, and brown people.

Did I actually like anything about this? Uh. The world is kind of interesting? I liked Carlotta. Ashlinn was okay. 

The teachers sucked, though. 

Sigh. What a waste of hours. 

Solid narration by Holter Graham, however.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Violence, Sexual content, Blood, Cultural appropriation, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Excrement, and Death of parent

eviemolly's review

dark medium-paced

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

2.0

Contains graphic sex scenes between minors; very uncomfortable to read.
Prose was not well-written; felt like reading wattpad (not in a good way)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Sexual content

Moderate: Body horror, Classism, and Death of parent

Minor: Forced institutionalization

tanzanitedragoness's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-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

5.0

The fact that this is a comfort read probably says something about me, but it is. It’s dark, and twisted, and heart wrenching, and oddly soothing if only because it’s 9meone else’s bullshit and not my own. It’s got a fair bit of dark humour, and I quite love the narrator.

The footnotes, which many other reviews seem to take issue with, seem entirely appropriate. After all, you would not describe how days and nights work if setting a book on earth, nor explain what Asia is. However you might mention these if you were translating a copy of that same story for distribution on another world, which is what these footnotes indicate is the case.

The narrative tone is decidedly poetic, snarky, and crass. The narrator is a bit pretentious and it’s entertaining to snark them back in the margins, they deserve it utterly. I rather like them. I still half think it’s the not-cat. Edit: four pages into the second and it’s either the cat or the librarian.

Now on to the second book, because appearently I’m spending the evening reading half a dozen gut wrenchers despite sanity trying to intervene. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, and Murder

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Kidnapping, and Rape

mothman19's review

adventurous challenging dark 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, Murder, Grief, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Death of parent, Death, Confinement, and Child death

Moderate: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, and Torture

Minor: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Vomit