Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

17 reviews

gentleprocrastination's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Abandonment

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, and Confinement

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Animal death, and Eating disorder

kamiellen's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious fast-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

It's Harry Potter but not Harry Potter and I loved it. Penny is delightful, Watford is interesting in its own right, and I'm obsessed with how magic works in this world.

I'm not a huge enemies-to-lovers fan, but Rowell kept me turning the pages and rooting for Simon and Baz the whole way through.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, and Violence

Moderate: Murder, Mental illness, Death, Death of parent, Child abuse, Kidnapping, Bullying, and Grief

Minor: Blood, Abandonment, and Homophobia

kris386's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• 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: Animal death, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Blood and Pregnancy

avisreadsandreads's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Confinement, Pregnancy, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Animal death

Minor: Vomit, Homophobia, Abandonment, and Panic attacks/disorders

theroach's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

How is this book so cute while also being really sad but also really funny all at the same time. Gobbled this up faster than a candy corn.

  It was Agatha all along. Can we have a moment of appreciation that the toxic, manipulative, absolutely trash adults end up being the villains instead of portraying these people as super wise father figures that can do no wrong, forgiven and idolized to the gd end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Homophobia, and Police brutality

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Confinement and Kidnapping

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book has a lot of fun adventure in it. I didn't entirely care for it because of the tone and the characters, but I have a sense that anyone who likes tongue-and-cheek parodies of genres (it's not quite a parody but it feels like one) and a Harry Potter feel and the book this was born from (Fangirl) will probably like this.

Unrelated to my impression of the book overall, I got into a car accident while listening to this book, right at the part where Simon is also involved in a vehicle accident. I was hit by an oncoming driver who suddenly jumped a low median. Thankfully, I was ok!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement and Racism

skudiklier's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.75

I do love this series, but I've only recently become fully aware of the extent of Rainbow Rowell's issues--namely, her racism in her earlier book Eleanor & Park, and her subsequent lack of apology or any form of acknowledgement of the harm she's caused. Eleanor & Park continues to be her most well-known and successful work, and it's being adapted into a movie, and Rowell still hasn't done *anything* to make up for its racism. Which is inexcusable, and leads me to think I shouldn't support her or her work moving forward. 

I don't believe the art and the artist can be separated much in this case--not when she has refused to listen to those she's harmed, or acknowledged said harm at all. I don't think Rowell or her work should be supported, at least for now. I won't be buying any of her future books unless she fully reckons with the harm her racism has caused. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Grief, Confinement, Kidnapping, Suicide, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, and Violence

Moderate: Self harm, Animal cruelty, Child death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Animal death, Racism, and Sexual content

Minor: Eating disorder