Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Penalty Box by Odette Stone

5 reviews

orangeaiya's review

hopeful medium-paced

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

3.0

The ending lost me but I finished it anyway. I really enjoyed the build up of tension between them. I’m not sure if I missed trigger warnings but there definitely should be some for DUBCON. I was caught completely off guard. Other trigger warnings as well but that was the big one for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Kidnapping and Stalking

Minor: Confinement and Suicide

lea_talisa's review

emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

Great book!

(the next part contains some minor spoilers)
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I always enjoy the

fake marriage/ marriage of convenience

trope, so I knew from the start I was probably going to like it.
Through a ton of misunderstandings and other incidents Charlie and Mica end up

in marriage

mainly to protect Mica‘s career. 
While sharing a home the characters get to know and finally love each other. Together they manage to get through police trials, crazy ex‘s, childhood trauma and a mysterious stalker. 
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Overall I liked the connection between Charlie and Mica, yet sometimes in the middle of the book in my opinion Mica‘s possessiveness got a bit out of hand when being intimate. But Charlie liked it so I guess that’s just my personal view. Above all they are both very protective and caring with each other no matter how hard the times are at the moment.

I also really liked Mica‘s background in Russia with his friend Andrusha and the trauma he had to live through gave the story more depth.

So far I enjoy the Vancouver Wolves series a lot and I'm excited to read the next book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Miscarriage and Stalking

Moderate: Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Death

Minor: Murder, Animal cruelty, and Confinement

miasreads's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Stalking

Moderate: Violence, Child death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Vomit, Gun violence, Death, Animal death, Suicide, and Sexual violence

finnickdeservedbetter's review

adventurous challenging 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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Stalking, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Pregnancy, Kidnapping, and Sexual assault

Minor: Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death, Grief, Infidelity, and Murder

peachani's review

emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death of parent, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Medical content, and Mental illness

Minor: Abortion, Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Murder