Reviews tagging 'Death'

Confessions by Kanae Minato

100 reviews

angelayn's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Everyone is damaged and nobody is a saint here. It feels like you’re going in circles over and over because each chapter has a different person telling their point of view about the same incident but each time it reveals something deeper and darker and truly horrific. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Child abuse, Child death, Bullying, Murder, and Physical abuse

lesyeux_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Animal death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

rionstorm's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

This book wasn't what I expected and it kept surprising me. They handled a few topics in ways I wasn't the biggest fan of, but overall it was written in and interesting way and I didn't see the twists coming.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Murder, Terminal illness, Death, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Child death, and Bullying

Moderate: Violence, Child abuse, and Animal cruelty

CW:

terrorism

allison_18's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Physical abuse, Violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Death, Vomit, Terminal illness, Bullying, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

clarxvizconde13's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

• 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Death

soniaa5's review against another edition

dark tense 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Blood, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Child death, Vomit, Animal death, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Addiction, Mental illness, and Terminal illness

zoeeatsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Confessions is a relentless read about the repercussions and reprisals of revenge. Warning this book won’t let you out of its savage grasp even after its last page. This one will stay with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Torture, Medical content, Murder, Bullying, Death, Suicide, Child death, and Blood

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Bullying, Death, Child death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Chronic illness, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Outing, Murder, Violence, Ableism, Torture, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexism, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Animal death, Vomit, Body horror, Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Toxic friendship, and Misogyny

Minor: Pregnancy, Mass/school shootings, and Transphobia

sakisreads's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

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

4.0

✨ Reread ✨

I found this book on my old bookshelf and knew I had to reread it 😂

I am giving it a slightly lower rating than last time, as I found the translations clumsy, but I still loved reading it all the same. I also completely forgot what happened at the end last time, but I knew I found it compelling to read (hence the reread).

The bomb going off made me audibly gasp! 😳

4 out of 5 stars for me, thank you ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Blood, and Death of parent

clovetra's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• 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

5.0

holy shit. i don’t think ive enjoyed a book like that in a while, where im so engrossed i literally put life on hold to read it. sure, i love all my 5-star rankings, but so far only twilight was able to capture my immersion… which is embarrassing to admit at my grown age. except, now this novel falls into that category. 

this was fucking amazing.

so many plot twists. so many scathing passages. 

i felt every emotion. anger. sadness. confusion happiness. concern. joy.

even though there are only six chapters, each leaves you with a bit more information. and with every new piece of information is a new plot twist. 

from the first chapter alone i was hooked. i was thoroughly confused at first, but as i kept going, i became more and more invested, until the first of many bombshells is dropped in chapter one. from there, minato keeps rolling the punches, as she adds more depth to an already exhilarating story. 

can i also just say i love me a good fucked up story. and not just fucked up for the sake of being fucked up. you can really tell minato knows when to lull the reader into a comfortable state and rip the rug out underneath from them. and i promise you the more you keep going the twists keep getting more and more outlandish - but in a good way.

i’ve heard people say that this book is grating at times because each chapter follows a similar retelling of events but from another characters point of view - from a killer, to the teacher who has lost her child, to a mother of a killer, to a student. i found this to be enthralling! seeing underneath the surface of every character’s motivation, inner thoughts, and explanations to why they acted like x a chapter ago, or why they said y 50 pages ago. it was delectable

i don’t think i can honestly put into words how addicting this book is. if this were a book with a massive fandom (i don’t know if it has one sue me) i could smell myself forming a hyper-fixation on this story because my god was it beautiful.

literally my ass only has One gripe…. and that’s

the HIV plot threw me off track a bit, as i know HIV very likely won’t be transmitted through drinking blood of someone with HIV, or even sharing a meal or using a bathroom with someone HIV+. like that part threw me off so much when characters kept talking about “oh no i have HIV”…. like i damn well know u dont

. but even then honestly i don’t care enough to let that ruin my perception. this book was too yummy to be hung up on such a “small” detail, when everything else was done to perfection.

i swear if u like thrillers & haven’t read this bump it up ur tbr

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Bullying, Murder, Medical content, and Death

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Child abuse, Abandonment, and Physical abuse

Minor: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage