Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

56 reviews

booksandfin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.75

The only thing keeping this from 5 stars are the explicit dog deaths. Totally necessary for the book but I struggle with any on screen animal deaths

I will officially read anything by Becky Chambers. Sidra grew so much and I really did love her at the end (which I didn’t expect to). But Pepper has my entire heart. Her chapters tore me open and mended me whole again.

I wanna play Big Bug Crew too.💔

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Cursing and Grief

moonbasket's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

A departure from the first book in form and style, but just a phenomenal. Chambers is amazing at analyzing the human condition through the lens of her characters and this novel is no different. A simple plot overall allows for a detailed exploration of what it means to be sentient and how learning autonomy changes a person for the better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Mental illness

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Slavery, Medical content, Grief, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Xenophobia, and Blood

voldycat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Xenophobia and Alcohol

Minor: Medical content

ritabriar's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring tense

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

5.0

The plot switches back and forth between Pepper's past and present, when she is guided by and guides two different "artificial" people. These two timelines collide at the end. All of the characters have been through. A lot. This book handles their stories with respect and care. This is a beautiful exploration of the meanings of family and care. Their world is unjust, so they steal a little justice for themselves. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Slavery

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Gore, Blood, Grief, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Drug use, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Colonisation

Accidental explosion, explicit, resulting in child death Child murdered by robot caretaker Bad dogs attack a child, and the child kills them for food Explicit malnutrition

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Slavery

nikenacs's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-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

But I don't want to leave them yet :( I want to stay with the whole gang in Port Coriol and just do scifi hopepunk slice of life forever :(

Exceptional. Just as good as the first one, maybe even more gripping because of its two clear POVs. Especially the Jane/Pepper storyline really got me. Focusing more on Port Coriol and the Factory instead of another ship crew also helped flesh out the worldbuilding in some fantastic ways. I have deep, deep feelings over Becky Chambers' ability to do worldbuilding in seemingly mundane details. I don't mind the (comparatively) slow pace at all because I'm enjoying the everyday life and struggles of these characters and this world so much.

I don't want it to be over, which speaks volumes to how much I enjoy this world and the people in it. Wayfarers is swiftly (and predictably) becoming my favorite book series I've read in years. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, and Blood

Minor: Vomit

lemonwrlds's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Infertility, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, and Colonisation

elliv's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Physical abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

lindsayreads21's review against another edition

emotional 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? No

5.0

Book 2 in the Wayfarers series doesn’t follow the same group of characters that we fell in love with in Book 1, with a few notable exceptions. This time, we get to follow Pepper (who we met in Port Coriol as a friend of Kizzy and Jenks) and Sidra (who we have met before, but it’d be a horrible spoiler if I gave you too much here). This book gives us Pepper’s backstory, which is absolutely heartbreaking, through flashback chapters. In the “present” chapters, Pepper is trying to help Sidra find her place in a strange new environment in which she’s incredibly uncomfortable. This is a beautiful story of growth and overcoming adversity, found family, and sentience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, and Slavery

Moderate: Ableism and Animal death

Minor: Infertility

grace_b_3's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Confinement and Slavery