Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Band 01 by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

11 reviews

marileysan's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional funny mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Biphobia, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Classism

malecbanewood89's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging inspiring lighthearted 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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Body horror, Confinement, Blood, Death of parent

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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Pretty solid start for a series.  There's a huge cast of characters who have various forms of address so it can be difficult to keep track of everything in the beginning.

The dynamic between Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji is hard to describe of only because you don't know the whole history they have yet, nor where it will go in the future.  So far, one is basically a class clown/jock type while the other is a stoic nerd type and I'm having a great time with it.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Outing, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

nightivy's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Genocide, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Blood, War

graceskate's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Outing

r1vana's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Murder

Moderate: Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Deadnaming, Death, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Homophobia, Self harm, Suicide

justkyliep's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This translation is not especially good, but it doesn't totally destroy the tone. I would recommend seeking out a fan-translation if you want more faithful language. Personally, I think reading a couple chapters from the (now incomplete) ExR fan-translation and then swapping to the 7S translation for the rest is a good balance of accuracy and accessibility. I hope to see a better translation of this novel one day. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death

Moderate: Sexual harassment

samugranjo's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark funny relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Confinement, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, War, Injury/Injury detail

atlanticgiantpumpkin's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-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: Yes

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I read this book in four days cause my crush really wanted me to read this, and even though my crush is in vain I persevered, though this book made it so enjoyable.  I haven’t read a book that fast since high school (Divergent of all things).  This was very enjoyable, and while slow burn really gets to me because for the love of god y’all need to kiss already, I sqeed like a fan girl when the little tidbits of romance DID pop up.  I’m still mixing up characters because so many people have the same surname, but I’m getting there.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Self harm, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Body horror, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicide, Forced institutionalization, Outing, Sexual harassment

Any homophobia and abuse is short lived.

tetetaeskz's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, War

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Blood

Minor: Incest