Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher

9 reviews

danajoy's review against another edition

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Suicide, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Body horror

sonatica's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Overall, this was a very charming fairytale retelling and short audiobook to listen to while going about my day! :)

I really liked Bryony as a protagonist and while I think that the character of

Beast

and the buildup of their relationship could've been explored more and the ending felt a tad rushed, I still ended up really liking the storyline. :)

T. Kingfisher's writing style translates beautifully into audiobooks in my opinion and the narrator did a great job in bringing it to life!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Blood

Minor: Toxic relationship, Suicide, Violence, Sexual assault, Death, and Body shaming

sinoclock's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-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

3.0

I like Kingfishers' writing style a lot. I paused a couple times reading this book to make sure it wasn't one of her scary ones because I'm a baby. I liked how the relationship developed and the different direction the story went, but I can't say I care all that much about beauty and the beast retellings and it felt like something was missing here, not sure what. No regrets having read it though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Confinement

Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Body horror

Minor: Suicide, Stalking, Alcohol, Death of parent, and Excrement

alienor's review

dark emotional funny fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicide, Violence, and Physical abuse

Minor: Death, Sexual violence, and Death of parent

notthatlibrarian's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Body horror, and Suicide

dania_'s review

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement

silver_valkyrie_reads's review

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-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? No

5.0

 This may win the prize for the funniest Beauty and the Beast retelling I've ever read! It's also sweet, and quirky, and has lightly creepy/gothic vibes, and that was all a great combination for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Sexual content, and Cursing

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Torture, Violence, Alcohol, and Cannibalism

rhymeswithnova's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

Kingfisher writes modernized fairy tales really well. I adore this reimagining of Beauty and the Beast where the Beast isn't at all beastly, and my only complaint is that it isn't longer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Stalking, and Vomit

Moderate: Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Minor: Death of parent and Excrement

marieketron's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious slow-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

Oh I really enjoyed this retelling! The heroine can generally fend for herself, and her gardening skills come in especially helpful when your main enemy is an evil rosebush. This retelling also uses one of my favourite possible endings for a tale that follows the pattern of Beauty and the Beast: the Beast does not transform back into human form in the end. I have a soft place in my heart for Angela Carter's notion of the Beauty transforming into a Beast as well (I fervently believe this may have been some inspiration for the plotline of Shrek), but there is a certain loveliness and innate acceptance in the two continuing to live together in the forms in which they learned to love each other. 

The pacing of the story is also exactly right, and while there is a short montage scene of the two spending time together, we get plenty detailed scenes to fully buy into the sweet romance between the two. I was happy that this is also a relatively feminist tale in that the heroine is explicitly not a virgin and refers to masturbation, even if there is no on page sexual action. Loved the sister side character of Holly as well.

I might have rated the story slightly higher if it weren't for the narrator of the audiobook I listened to, whose inflection at the end of every sentence was mildly grating and I would have to get swept up by the story before I could tune that out. It's a mark in favour of the story that it was indeed able to sweep me along so well that I stopped noticing a voice quirk that might otherwise have meant I wouldn't finish the book in question.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Medical content, Physical abuse, Stalking, and Vomit

Minor: Death of parent