Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

89 reviews

soggycedar's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse and Kidnapping

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Abandonment, and Confinement

fallnginluve's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

cute

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Child death, and Body horror

Moderate: Abandonment, Kidnapping, and Death

Minor: Blood and Animal death

nyctaea's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, and Child death

Moderate: Abandonment, Kidnapping, and Death

Minor: Animal death, Violence, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Animal cruelty, Blood, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Gore

kira20's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gaslighting, Confinement, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Violence

goodthingsread's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

This was my second time reading this book and I still enjoy it. I was never much of a horror <i>fan</i>, only coming to appreciate horror movies in later years. But there's something enchanting -- as always -- in Gaiman's writing. The story is terrifying and creepy without being over the top and just right, I think, for middle grade readers who want to dip their toes into the Really Scary Stuff. A part of me wishes there were more to the novel, at least more of a hint as to what the Other Mother truly is, where she came from. I want more lore. But that's not really the point of the book; I understand that even if it takes away from my enjoyment slightly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Confinement

majormnkey's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Child death, Animal death, and Death

loonysaurus's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Animal death and Abandonment

danimacuk's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment and Child death

Minor: Confinement

allyareads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Minor: Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Animal cruelty, and Blood

pacifickat's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Neil Gaiman understands how to write magic, especially dark magic, in a way that makes it feel real and old and timeless. He also picks at the edges of our deepest, most primal fears without revealing too much at a time. Love the way he plays with old magic tropes (black cats, talismen, portals, the monster under the bed, mist) in ways that make them feel both refreshingly new and impossibly ancient at the same time. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Confinement, Toxic relationship, and Body horror

Moderate: Slavery and Violence

Minor: Kidnapping, Murder, Animal death, and Abandonment