Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Girl Flesh by May Leitz

3 reviews

pantrat's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Eating disorder, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Murder, Suicide attempt, and Blood

Moderate: Transphobia, Alcoholism, Confinement, Deadnaming, Vomit, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, and Self harm

Minor: Cancer, Gun violence, Lesbophobia, Rape, Excrement, Sexual violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

right_kidney's review

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Some strong writing much of the time, interesting premise and character development (including development of the narrators understanding of other characters). Super graphic and disgusting at times in a way that didn’t feel like cheap shock factor gore

Without spoilers, my only major complaint is that the main character’s reflective narration sometimes got repetitive, especially in the early to middle section of the book. I would’ve liked to see an exploration into other elements of her mind/past or at least different approaches to what themes were included. It sometimes felt like the author didn't trust the reader to understand the character through what she’d already written, and added a very blunt statement to make sure we understood (and sometimes repeating that statement multiple times).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Blood, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Eating disorder, Gore, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Transphobia, Deadnaming, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Vomit

Minor: Drug use, Excrement, Addiction, Animal death, and Sexual violence

vereisnthere's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Blood, Cursing, Transphobia, Suicide attempt, Death, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Deadnaming, Violence, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Sexual content, Child abuse, and Confinement

Moderate: Addiction, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Vomit, Car accident, Animal cruelty, Excrement, and Animal death

Minor: Death of parent, Medical content, Racism, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Colonisation