Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

La prescelta e l'erede by Jacqueline Carey

6 reviews

alexalily's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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: Sexual content and Confinement

Moderate: Murder, Antisemitism, Classism, Grief, Blood, Kidnapping, Death, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Police brutality, Ableism, Medical content, Slavery, and Animal death

willow1113's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, Violence, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Animal death, Antisemitism, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Slavery

hippievamp's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Sexual content, Death, Toxic relationship, and Confinement

Moderate: Self harm, Murder, Kidnapping, Blood, Homophobia, Misogyny, War, and Injury/Injury detail

jashanac's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.0

The mystery and intrigue is captivating in these books, but the pacing just kills me. It felt even slower in this second book -- the writing style itself doesn't bother me (I've seen some people say it is 'overwritten', which is a fair critique but not something I personally feel), but there's so much traveling from here to there to there to over here and back again and that kind of thing bogs me down quite a bit while reading. 

This one just had quite a few chapters/side quests that felt a bit filler-y. But I still love these characters and am very intrigued with the politics and scheming going on all the time! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Confinement, Violence, and War

samuelachillese's review against another edition

adventurous 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, and Violence

Moderate: Rape and War

Minor: Colonisation

anigoose's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.25

Could use more bears. 

The whole "dark ~ evil / fair ~ good" is more pronounced in this volume and the descriptions, or lack thereof of dark skinned people is pretty gross tbh. 

I remember finding this one more boring the first time around some time in the 10s via paper, but I enjoyed it more as an audiobook I think. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Confinement, and Sexual content

Moderate: Abandonment, Racism, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Antisemitism

Minor: Ableism