Reviews with content warning for Sexual content - The Cloisters

Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

The Cloisters by Katy Hays

18 reviews

gracescanlon's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

3.0

This just didn’t hit for me.

Strike one: The story was odd, as was the main character. Also, the narrative voice continually switched from conversational to more lofty prose, often from one sentence to the next and back again. Many of the more conversational ones were actually dependent clauses, which brought the immediate shift in tone from literary fiction-esque sentences to non-sentences into even sharper contrast.

Strike two: The book touched on issues around those who grew up with money and those who didn’t, but didn’t delve deeply into them. This was fine, actually, for much of the book, as the MC idolized the old-money characters for most of it. However, her shift in opinion of those types of characters neglected to address topics like entitlement and never knowing financial struggle or hardship. She did, however, shift her thinking on theft from such people. So to see one side of her opinion about the “haves and have-nots” change, but not the other (at least not on the page), rang insincere.

Strike three: The entire book was so predictable that when it met the tired tropes and twists without deviation, I was truly in disbelief — disbelief that anyone could be that unoriginal.

Content Warnings

thewillowwood's review

Go to review page

dark mysterious tense fast-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? Yes

4.0

An interesting and fast read with a dark mystery that was entertaining to watch unravel.

Content Warnings

caylorquinn's review

Go to review page

dark informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Content Warnings

macykey's review

Go to review page

dark mysterious tense fast-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

3.75

This book definitely kept me interested, but it was just lacking ✨ something ✨ for me, you know? There were some things that I don’t didn’t make sense, like the romance aspect between the main character and Leo. But there were also things that didn’t get revealed until the very end that were very good. So it was kind of just middle of the road for me.

Content Warnings

marleywrites's review against another edition

Go to review page

mysterious 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? No

1.0

Slow, not much happened until the last three hours of the audiobook. Wasn’t a huge fan of the narrator. I thought the characters were boring and predictable. Leo was kinda interesting and I wanted to hear more about him but everyone else felt lifeless. I finished this book because I liked learning about tarot and it was an Audible credit so I wanted to make it worth it. If this had been a print book, I wouldn’t have finished it. I feel half satisfied with the ending.

Content Warnings

awayman's review

Go to review page

dark mysterious 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

2.0

I was mainly interested in this book because of the draw of tarot. Tarot is the focus of the project the characters are working on, yet we hear very little about it. It felt like the entire book started interesting concepts and then never followed through.

Spoiler

The ending was rushed and predictable. The reveal about Ann’s father felt as though it was thrown in to give some sort of answer to what happened to him, but it was anticlimactic and sloppy. I didn’t actually like any of the characters, but I particularly found Ann to be completely annoying.

Content Warnings