Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

10 reviews

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective tense

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Confinement, Drug use, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Drug abuse, Racism, Transphobia, and Lesbophobia

hmurff's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Cursing and Alcohol

Minor: Confinement

spacexgay's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, and Murder

Moderate: Blood

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, and Sexual content

Minor: Alcoholism, Confinement, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, and Classism

cianarae's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Very slow beginning, it takes awhile for something interesting to happen. The writing itself was just alright. I liked the mystery/guessing and the characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Sexism, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Confinement, Cursing, Racism, Suicide, Transphobia, Vomit, and Classism

abutler'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Murder, Abandonment, and Alcohol

bookcrushin's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

This book will mess with your head a bit especially with the unreliable narrator. I loved it and I expect to see it on all your fall dark gothic lists!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Vomit, and Gaslighting

Minor: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Drug use, and Abandonment

strawbeb's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

I just finished it a few minutes ago and that was….. what a journey. It is definitely for those craving a horror, dark academia, lesbian, boarding school tale. The writing was beautiful to read and the characters were interesting to know. I especially love love loved all the parallels, especially at the end of the book. A great read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Eating disorder, Gore, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

melaniereadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

4.75

Thank you to Delacorte Press and Netgalley for an e-arc of this book!

When Felicity comes back to Dalloway School after a stay in a mental hospital following her girlfriend's death, she is meant to focus on her studies and stay away from witchcraft. But Ellis Haley is in her dorm, and all of the girls are drawn to her, including Felicity.  Ellis decides to teach Felicity that witchcraft isn't real by...making them dabble in witchcraft. All the while, Felicity is sure she is being haunted by her ex-girlfriend's ghost...or at least by the ghost of the founders of Dalloway school.

This book! Oh my goodness it was amazing. So so dark and mysterious and everything I wanted it to be.  Felicity is such an unreliable narrator and that makes it so you never truly know what will be revealed. I was on the edge of my seat through the whole thing and couldn't wait to see what happened next. I couldn't believe how this story ended, but I loved every minute I spent reading it!

Pub date: August 3, 2021

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Vomit

sunshinestark's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.0

Set at a centuries old boarding school with a history supposedly twined with magic, A Lesson in Vengeance is suffused with darkness centered around a girl trying to distance herself from the past that makes this a read that's hard to put down. Felicity returns to the Dalloway School after time spent away following the disappearance and presumed death of her best friend - and secret girlfriend - Alex. Believing magic and the twisted history of five murdered witches who attended the school were involved, Felicity is intent on leaving all things connecting her to magic behind. Then enters Ellis. Ellis is impossibly cool and captures Felicity's attention from the moment they meet. The only problem being Ellis wants Felicity's help in researching the history of the Dalloway Five, the murdered witches. Knowing she shouldn't put herself back into that world, Felicity can't say no. Soon she is once again thrust into a series of events filled with deceit and blood leaving her unsure who she can trust or if she'll ever be safe again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, and Murder