Reviews with content warning for Confinement - The Scottish Boy

He knows now the word for the soaring feeling he gets in his chest every time he looks at his squire. He knows now the name of the song his body sings when he touches his friend. It is love. And it is impossible.

Maybe my brain is rotted because everyone’s saying they hated this book meanwhile I was getting my life with this.

Once you know and understand that this book was originally a stucky fanfic everything clicks. Like once you see and accept that it’s a repackaged ~~and repolished~~ fanfic

I know they had to chang the names for legal reasons but I need to know the original character roster. Who the fuck was Montegue in the original fic??? Every time there was a new character introduced I was like was that originally and MCU character or an OC? Someone send me the characterlist I’m dying to know!!!

off ao3 it makes a lot more sense. Like with this book, I really felt like I was reading a fic, just kind of turning my brain off and enjoying the ride. Like of course they’re just gonna have random sex with no fear of painting, painting doesn’t exist in ao3land!

That being said, I would argue this book does manage to stand on its own. Like for me at least I enjoyed watching ~~Steve~~ Harry and ~~Bucky~~ Ian’s relationship grow. And like I said, since it follows more of the fanfic structure, you shouldn’t be suprised to see hot gay sex first, plot intrigue later. But this book really doesn’t get hot and horny till the 25% mark, and there is actually a lot of plot in this book.

Idk I liked it. Wouldn’t be mad if there was a sequel 🤷🏾‍♀️.

Uncle Iain is definitely the kids favorite. Plus I’d love to see Aly, Harry and Iain’s relationship after the books.

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adventurous emotional 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

3.75

Disclaimer: I am asexual, and that definitely influenced how much i enjoyed this book

This was one of those unputdownable, breeze-through reads for me, very readable prose, characters i cared about, interesting historical setting, captivating romance. But i had one big problem with it.

For me, there were just far too many sex scenes. This was maybe slightly balanced out for me by having a canon asexual side character, but only slightly, as they are a side character and their asexuality almost just seemed like more of a plot device not to get in the way of the main couple. And the sex scenes were very idealised and explicit, basically just porn:

idealised in that the only two bodily fluids that exist are saliva and jizz, no one has a gag reflex, magically no one ever needs to douche, the sex is always mindblowing etc etc

To give you an idea of how much. This is a book of four roughly equal quarters:
First quarter: plot: a young knight tries to befriend his prisoner
Second quarter: basically just porn, just so much porn
Third quarter: mostly porn, some plot
Last quarter: thankfully back to mostly plot and only some porn

For a 500+ page book, its a lot of porn. But if you like that sort of thing definitely give it a go because i found it very enjoyable otherwise

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