Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

2 reviews

kerriw's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-paced

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

4.0

Not a strong start to this book but I am glad I stuck with it. I loved the exploration of collective vs individual action and I always love the wonkiness of time traveling in a story. The whole punk scene is not my vibe so I wouldn’t say I enjoyed those parts, but it made sense in the context. I felt like the ending was clean and clear, nothing vague and confusing. 

Overall, I enjoyed it! Though I did the audiobook and the narrator’s voice was not my favorite.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, and Violence

Moderate: Abortion, Child abuse, Confinement, and Medical trauma

Minor: Mental illness, Racism, Transphobia, and Vomit

lunarlibra's review

adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced

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

3.5

There were a lot of things I really liked about this book. The sci part of this sci-fi was really fun for me, even with no background in geology! I love the storytelling method of using different perspectives and jumping around in time, and it's extra cool when they're time travelling as well. I appreciated that the cast of characters were racially and gender diverse (there are a couple trans characters, including one nonbinary person).
There is a really strong overtone of "violence is never the answer" for a lot of the book that almost made me put it down, but the rest of the story made me glad I didn't!
I still enjoyed the story, which has major themes of reproductive justice and the importance of collective action. I would recommend it to some people!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Antisemitism, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, and Violence

Minor: Ableism, Addiction, Antisemitism, Blood, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Mental illness, and Religious bigotry

specific warnings for

Childhood Sexual Assault, rape, murder, transmisogyny hate crime, reproductive violence, medical abuse, antisemitic slurs, racism and antiBlackness, mentions and brief depiction of reproductive slavery, sexual predators, traumatic abortion experience