Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith

3 reviews

takemetomilos's review

challenging dark mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

The ending >>
Also this book was straight up difficult to read, but it was worth it in the end. I’m a big DNF kinda guy, and the multiple time periods and points and views and endless characters in what is a genuinely complex story should have made me want to stop, but the writing itself was just to lyrical to give up. And then in the last third of the book you can’t help but being swept away. Trust the process w this one. Def not a quick read and I feel like I need a book club to unpack everything but I loved it. 
Deserves a revisit. I LOVE REVENGE STORIES❤️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Sexual violence, Rape, War, Slavery, Colonisation, Death, Confinement, and Misogyny

Moderate: Pregnancy, Incest, and Drug use

Minor: Eating disorder, Vomit, and Animal cruelty

porporina's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Cursing, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Slavery, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, Grief, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Vomit, Alcohol, Abandonment, Body horror, Misogyny, Police brutality, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexism

jomannisto's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

If you’re the type who NEEDS likeable protagonists, this is probably not the book for you. Others have said it is satirical/dryly funny, while I found it unrelentingly pessimistic to the point where I put it down for a week to recover from the characters whinging about their self hatred. I did however, enjoy the mystery/ghost/fantasy elements. I wish the interaction in the final chapters

between Winnie and Be Li

was a little longer since that was the thing that really helped to recover the pace. The writing is really vivid when it comes to conjuring settings. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, and Confinement

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual content, Alcohol, and Drug use