Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

100 reviews

chloe5454's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, and Cannibalism

Minor: Infertility

emimli's review against another edition

emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement and Emotional abuse

luciferin's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cancer, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gore, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, War, and Classism

maddierandolph's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Self harm, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Bullying, Mental illness, and Cannibalism

eleonorehilbig's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

ugh i don't know where to start with this review....
it's basically the hunger games in an agatha christie murder mystery but really badly executed....

things i liked: 

• gideon, our main character. she's snarky and to the point
• the sixth house (sience for the win) 
• the general magic system. 

things i didn't like: 

• the writing. (the author is using a lot of "grown-up words" which doesnt help you understand the book amy better. 
• the world building (if you can even call it that) we're in a house, on a planet, the house has doors and rooms. but mostly doors. also there are skeletons, and necromacers. and nine houses. why? who knows....
• the naming of the characters (everyone -even REALLY unimportant characters have like 3-5 different names and while
  they're being killed off
  you're just too busy trying to remember who that is to give a f*ck.
• and this might just be about the marketing - but i feel VERY iffy about how this book is promoted as "enemies to lovers" when it is absolutely a story about abuse. also wtf about the ending.
  not here for the romantasized abuse!

so basically it's a book about some characters in a house and one is a murderer. also there is necromancy and swords. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

lunarlibra's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

To everyone who has been talking about how much they love this book for years: I get it now
For some reason it took me a long time to really get into this book (like over 100 pages) but once I did, I could not put it down! (I think it's a me-problem, and for someone else the early chapters would have been immediately captivating.) 
The character development, the mystery, and the increasingly heightened stakes of the book make this a truly compelling read. Also some parts are truly so funny I laughed out loud! That said, it is deeply tragic. I don't usually love tragedy, but something about how the characters handled it felt very real to me in a way that didn't leave me feeling hopeless. 
I think Tamsyn Muir did something truly special with this book, her writing style is very visceral (no pun intended) in that I found myself deeply understanding the characters' emotions from her descriptions of things like time passing. I can't wait to get my hands on the next book!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Vomit, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Murder, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Confinement, Slavery, and Colonisation

sabrina_marvil's review against another edition

challenging dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

Wrong.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Incest, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Trafficking, Grief, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

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schoha01'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? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

beebidon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

I think about this series at least once a day. I put off reading it bc I fully believed my friends who warned me that it would be consume  me.  They were right and I regret nothing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Minor: Confinement, Vomit, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and War

pacifickat's review against another edition

Wasn't into the main character, didn't like the prose, thought I would love this series but felt let down (overhyped)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Physical abuse, Torture, Toxic relationship, and Violence