Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Sorrow and Starlight by Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti

11 reviews

kat1105's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

psydneigh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I love Leon; he’s hilarious! I was getting a frustrated with everyone the night of the Hydrid shower though and Caleb and Seth’s miscommunication was ridiculous! I have no idea how this will all end in one book!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Torture, Blood, Grief, War, and Classism

dkgreads's review against another edition

dark emotional tense slow-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

Maybe I’m just tired of all the pain and heartache and Lionel and the Shadow B*tch winning. Maybe I’m beyond ready for Seth and Caleb to use their f*cking words. Maybe it’s the fact that I didn’t realize that this book was a whopping 1200 freaking pages long when I started it. Whatever the reason, this book DRAGGED for me. I mean, it took me over a week to read it for crying out loud. But, speaking of crying, it still had the power to make my face leak for the first 130 pages straight. And let’s not even talk about Chapter 73 😭😭😭. Despite the excessive length and what felt like copious amounts of filler, I’m still invested up to my eyeballs. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

moonblaze7's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

yarisbooksandbevs's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.0

I really loved how they showed the different faces of grief in this book. It was raw and ugly and real and really well done. Lots was happening in this book but I loved it and there were definitely high stakes. I really need Seth and Caleb to freaking communicate. Tory has come such a long way but I want to see just a little more from her

she should not be mad at Darcy bc she would’ve done the same thing and she’s mostly upset bc she was drowning in grief

. The twins are absolute badasses and powerhouses. Oh and i still love Lance Orion

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Abandonment

Minor: Child death, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

nineinchnails's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.75

this did not have to be as long as it was (it was 1200+ pages and ~15 hours of reading according to kindle) but i wasn't that annoyed at the unnecessary chapters in random characters' pov because there wasn't much going on anyway. the first 80% is just doom and more doom but it made up for it in the last 20% and i felt like things were finally starting to look up. the appeal of this series (for me) was it feeling relatively low stakes like if love island was fictional and set in a fantasy world but it's definitely changed over the last few books to a more high stakes/'serious' series and i don't know if it really fits with the way the story and characters were initially written. however, my biggest gripe is with tory's lack of character development. she just kinda reverted to book 4 tory and it was hard to watch. obviously grief was a big theme in the book and it's understandable that she wouldn't be at her best but it was 1000+ pages of her acting like that after she had grown so much in book 6 + 7. also the reunions were SO short (especially relative to the book length) i was pretty disappointed.

i'm excited for the final book though and i'm hoping there is some improvement with her character development now that the gangs all back together but i'm not feeling optimistic about that just yet. i have NO IDEA how they're going to wrap up this whole series in book 9 considering they just introduced a new all-powerful villain in the last 2% of this book but i'd be shocked if this wasn't the last book since it's being read by their beta readers rn. i don't think i'm going to read beyond the veil anytime soon just because i have a feeling it'll be like the awakening atbtb and repeat the plot of things that have already happened just from the pov of other characters and i would rather read that after i've had a little break from the series, for obvious reasons. i was originally planning on reading darkmore penitentiary now but i think i'll wait til after book 9 in case of spoilers😭 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and War

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Vomit, and Abandonment

selestre's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-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? N/A

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Self harm, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Cannibalism, Murder, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

_alyssar_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

2.75

I’m so confused.  This book dragged on, and almost went on my DNF list - which is extremely rare, and especially since I actually want to know how everything turns out for these characters.  

The story has been building and building over the first 7 books and then randomly in the last 10-15% of book 8, a bunch of loose ends get tied up, only for the whole story to unravel again in the last couple of chapters and leave us on a weird cliffhanger. Not only that, but the next two books in the series are apparently backtracks from different perspectives - the next one says it’s a retelling of the first book from the Heirs’ POV, and the currently final book in the series (book 10) says it’s a retelling from the POV of those that have passed.   So we’ll be left on this cliffhanger with no foreseeable ending through at least two more books before we can pick up and go again. 

The first few books really sucked me in, but the story is now spiraling wildly out of control with no ending in sight - pretty disappointed, as I’m now invested in this story through the first several books, but after book 8, I’m not sure I want to continue, despite still wanting to see how things turn out.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

tguccione's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad 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

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, and War

luciiee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail