Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Salt Slow by Julia Armfield

3 reviews

biobeetle's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Pregnancy, Confinement, and Body horror

Moderate: Violence and Death

Minor: Lesbophobia

peggy_racham's review

4.0

A good collection of short stories. Sometimes body horror sometimes grief imbodied. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Cannibalism, Body horror, Confinement, and Murder

ecn's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

The description wasn’t wrong when they said you’d enjoy it if you were a fan of Carmen Maria Machado. This definitely read almost identically to some of the stories in Her Body and Other Parties. (If you want something exactly like it, read this). 
Some stories were better than others but all were enjoyable and fun to pick apart  for a ~deeper meaning~. 

Would be a great book club book (especially if read alongside Her Body, and especially especially if read around Halloween. A fun event I’d sign up for).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Miscarriage, Murder, Sexism, Abandonment, Misogyny, Suicide attempt, and Vomit