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Pandora by Susan Stokes-Chapman

18 reviews

ltsang08's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative mysterious medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Classism, Murder, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Torture, Physical abuse, Blood, Alcohol, Death, Bullying, Animal death, Vomit, Domestic abuse, and Animal cruelty

maur_damar's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Domestic abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Grief

bubblegirl858's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad 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

Overall, a really well written story and a great twist on the Pandora story. I really enjoyed reading it and would probably read it again. The characters are a range of boring, interesting, valiant and villainous, as well as selfish and selfless which balances the book really well. I will say if you are squeamish at all about injuries and descriptions of that sort to steer clear of this book. Hermes was my favorite character.

The entire time whenever Edward interacted with Cornelius I literally screamed out "He is in love with you, you moron!" because it was painfully obvious to everyone except the literal straight white man which was both hilarious and heartbreaking. Speaking of heartbreaking, Hermes' being killed was the absolute worst thing I had to read, and I was so upset. I will never recover.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death, Sexism, Animal death, and Death of parent

allapaz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

wow solid atmospheric spooky historical thrilling mayhem madness, I thoroughly enjoyed the jaunt through Georgian London, lest the actually repulsive bits (though beautifully written!)

also, pour one out for our feathered friend Hermes

A solid read, a cool historical take on the mythic retellings move

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content and Sexual assault

mpbookreviews's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Violence

mtnest's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit and Sexual content

doodeedoda's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

2.5

ngl as an archeology graduate the description of how the pithos was dated was... something.
taking a sample from the vase to do a 'stratigraphy analysis'? a stratigraphy analysis on an out-of-context vase?? and then to be like "it predates history itself"??? yeah bs. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol and Vomit

pythonesque's review against another edition

62% into the book, and it became unbearably tedious.
The writing feels like a very bad 18th century cosplay. We have clumsy heterosexual romance, bad selfish gays, and oh so evil uncle. 

And even the magpie dies

, though i didn't listen till this episode. 
Yikes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia

molly_greenshields's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious relaxing slow-paced

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

3.75

Susan Stokes-Chapman certainly brings something different to the Greek retelling trend with Pandora, blending mythology with historical realism in this Georgian-style mystery. The characters were complex, the plot was fun and I found myself not wanting to put the book down once I reached the last hundred or so pages (I will  never be recovered enough to talk about Hermes). Having said that, I don't think it really needed to be 400 pages long in the first place: the prose was dense and relatively slow-moving for the most part and... there just wasn't the same lyrical beauty of Circe or Ariadne (sorry). All in all though, this was a fun read and a rather refreshing take on what's fast-becoming an over-saturated genre.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Gore

Moderate: Violence, Animal death, Death, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

gondorgirl's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Animal death, and Gore

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Death, and Injury/Injury detail