Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber

13 reviews

britwalsh16's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious 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

It was such a good book! Couple things I called, and somethings I was so wrong about! But even then, all the twists at the end, I did not see any of them coming! I probably should have, but damn, they just kept shocking me! And that damn cliffhanger! Where’s book 3 already?! Gahh!!! I need to continue this story already!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Stalking, Torture, and Abandonment

abicaro17's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.75

Evangeline and Jacks return as wary enemies in this sequel. Even with Evangeline being determined to solve her own issues, it seems that Jacks have other plans. As the twists and revelations unfold, one gets caught up in the twisted love story once again. Garber does a tremendous job of repeatedly warning both the reader and Evangeline not to trust people and placating those fears at the same time. Every twist manages to be a surprise and a knife to the gut. Can't wait for the third book! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Confinement, Gaslighting, Violence, Stalking, Death, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship

esme_may's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Torture, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Abandonment, Confinement, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent and Alcohol

ktame001's review against another edition

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Toxic relationship and Confinement

maresuju's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Death, Blood, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, and Stalking

Minor: Abandonment and Torture

anton13's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Like always Stephanie manages to deliver a magical, gut wrenching, heartbreaking, heart warming and plot twist full story that keeps you hooked from start to finish. I absolutely love how she writes and this is another stunning example of how amazing her writing is. I love that you get to know more about Jacks in this book and that you see the relationship between him and Evangeline evolve. The ending had me on the edge of my seat. I did not see any of it coming and I was shook. Idk how I’ll survive not knowing what happens till the third book comes out…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Blood

Minor: Dementia, Kidnapping, Self harm, Stalking, Death of parent, Medical content, and Alcohol

amre23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Emotional abuse, Toxic friendship, Kidnapping, Violence, Murder, Gore, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Grief, and Body horror

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Self harm, Blood, Abandonment, War, Stalking, Gaslighting, Classism, Physical abuse, and Infidelity

Minor: Alcohol, Death of parent, and Sexual assault

scrubsandbooks's review against another edition

adventurous

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

2.5

Second book syndrome to the extreme, I'm not even sure what the heck happened. The first book was amazing and beautifully written, giving Evangeline a lot of agency to make her destiny and this one? This one, she just loses it all to a man cleared stitched from a thousand red flags. How did I end up going from rooting for EvaJacks to rolling my eyes every other page and telling her she's an idiot?

The reason I didn't give it a one star are solely for the world-building, the descriptive text, and Rebecca Soler's narration. No matter what, I want to find Garber and ask her to please hire someone to make all the ball gowns and dresses in this book come to life. I love the whimsical settings (though the four poster bed inside a cage within another cage was the only wtf), I love the way she writes.

But damn did Evangeline really just annoy the hell out of me in this book.

Spoiler

Why wouldn't you just let Luc eat Marisol? She's fucking terrible. Why would you forgive your supposed friend for putting a curse on your husband that would KILL YOU AND HIM?? Within like five seconds? Why couldn't Jacks just be a little more clear after using the stones to time travel on why she should leave? If there's any trope I hate more than love triangles and cheating, it's the miscommunication trope.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Confinement

Moderate: Death

Spoiler

CW: infidelity, toxic relationships

kefredriksen's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

5.0

Even though this is a 2nd book in a series, it was better than the first! I couldn't put it down, the characters are delightfully complicated, and the ending had me screaming. Easily a fav in this genre!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Moderate: Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, and Blood

Minor: Confinement, Stalking, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement