Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

In Deeper Waters by F.T. Lukens

57 reviews

pvp_niki's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, and Confinement

Moderate: Vomit, Torture, Blood, and Genocide

Minor: War and Death of parent

lazmataz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Confinement

Moderate: Outing and Blood

Minor: Misogyny, Alcohol, and Abandonment

fanboyriot's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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? No

4.5

Read For:

🔮 Magic

🌊 High Fantasy

🤴🏽Prince x Merfolk

🤝 Rivals to Lovers Vibes

🧜🏼‍♂️ The Gay Little Mermaid

This was absolutely adorable.  It was enchanting and adventurous all the while being wholesome and tense at times. 

The characters were detailed and lovable.  I really enjoyed the atmosphere of this book, the plot and setting made this high fantasy all the more enjoyable.

There were The Little Mermaid vibes but gayer and much more interesting with the magic.  It was really cute.

Release Date: 29, March 2022

POV: Third Person

Spice: 🌶️

Rep: Bisexual or maybe Pansexual (MC), LGBTQIA Characters

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Blood, Confinement, Vomit, Physical abuse, Murder, Violence, Kidnapping, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Self harm, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Slavery, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gore

Minor: Alcohol

ankiaisreading's review against another edition

adventurous medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Grief, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Sexual content, Alcohol, Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Confinement, Body horror, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, Physical abuse, Slavery, and War

beeontoast's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful lighthearted mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Kidnapping

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Torture, Physical abuse, Confinement, and Cursing

madmadmaddymad's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.0

It’s cute. Very cheesy, though. 

I do adore the “Little Mermaid”-y-ness of it all, but the twist was extremely easy to see coming, and I knew that Tal was in danger from growing to love Athlen from the first minute he wouldn’t confess what he’d bargained to the sea witch for his legs. 

I’m glad these boys had their happy ending. A very sweet, very whimsical, very queer fairy tale, probably best suited for middle grade readers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Death, Torture, and Injury/Injury detail

wintah's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

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

4.0

though fantasy is not really my cup of tea, i still really enjoyed this book. in the middle i felt it was dragging a bit but the last ⅓ or so catched me again. overall very sweet, i really liked all the main characters, good enjoyable read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit

nevaraven's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

An emotional fairytale retelling full of magic and political strife. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, Confinement, and Kidnapping

Minor: Suicide attempt and Alcohol

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

adventurous slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Classism, Panic attacks/disorders, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Torture, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Colonisation, Blood, Violence, Vomit, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Minor: Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Misogyny, Murder, Sexism, and War

fromjuliereads's review

adventurous challenging funny hopeful lighthearted fast-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

4.0

I'm finding that I really love F.T. Lukens' books for shorter, fun, romancey fantasy reads! I loved all of the characters in this, and especially loved the sibling dynamics! It's definitely predictable, and has some holes, but that's the fun of the HEA 😉

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Vomit, Grief, Blood, and Physical abuse