Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia

4 reviews

kimapede's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Medical trauma, Self harm, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse, Genocide, Confinement, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Racism, and Vomit

avisreadsandreads's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Violence, Xenophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Murder, Child death, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Confinement, Colonisation, Self harm, Vomit, Dysphoria, and Torture

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

pvbobrien's review

dark mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Medical content

Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, Dysphoria, Gore, Hate crime, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Classism, Confinement, Colonisation, and Grief

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-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

Refugee and blood magic user Firuz convinces a small clinic to take them on as an assistant during a pandemic, and they find themself in the midst of an unexpected underlying crisis. I really enjoyed this read, which I picked up because of #RainbowCrateBookBox. I liked the characters, and always enjoy finding queer-normative settings. The ending got intense but it was really good. Also loved the giant mushrooms.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Child death, Xenophobia, Blood, Racism, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Death, Dysphoria, Violence, Medical content, and Confinement