Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton

4 reviews

_book_girl_82_'s review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

There's a cliffhanger and I don't have the next book 🥲
Some of the characters were questionable, but the ending was pretty good (even though it was a cliffhanger

we love Edel (is that her name I always forget))

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent and Colonisation

cdoubet's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Murder, Sexual harassment, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Violence, Body horror, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Gaslighting, Torture, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Death and Fire/Fire injury

kassidyreads's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Death, and Torture

Minor: Death of parent, Confinement, Animal cruelty, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

lagiven's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The prose of this book is the best part because it creates the perfect atmosphere for its world and parallels the obscene opulence that centers the Belles. At times, the writing is juxtaposed against horrifying scenes that make this book so fascinating and so disturbing. Most of the characters are solid although some are flatter, and the plot really picks up in the last third of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Body shaming

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Fatphobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Slavery