Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Cujo by Stephen King

19 reviews

a_wren_that_reads's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

jfield351's review against another edition

slow-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

1.0

I wish they all died sooner

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

add_a_little_spook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, and Confinement

Moderate: Infidelity and Toxic relationship

taviarz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

2.5

Bad but entertaining

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Sexual harassment

ayedrianreads's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, and Confinement

btrz7's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Blood

halfmysoul's review

challenging dark slow-paced

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

In terms of writing, this book is indeed worthy of 5 stars but it was genuinely horrifying. I knew to expect nothing less from the author but wow I was not prepared. I love King, I used to really want to read more books with the thriller/horror genre and the ones I read didnt really do it for me but his book's always ALWAYS had me getting chills up my spine, staying up late at night thinking about the story, etc etc. The writing in this book is of course amazing and although its a very interesting read, it isnt my favorite or one I would ever read again. The POV of Cujo is terrifying after he "turns bad" and the scenes of the mother's POV, while she's in the car, is possibly worse than the struggle scenes between her and Cujo. What happened to the little boy, and Cujo himself was horrifying. The way King describes everything is surreal and I had to close the book and get up often due to how graphic it is. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death and Blood

meatballer's review

dark sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

cujo my baby my baby myyyy bayyybeeee. stephen king saying that he was so high while he wrote this he doesn’t even remember it....and it shows 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, and Vomit

shortstackkat's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

3.75

I forgot how incredibly heartbreaking the ending is so it’s a really rough read in those final pages.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail