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Le Maître des illusions by Donna Tartt

155 reviews

eclloyd's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Death, Incest, Suicide, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Murder, Physical abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

chernobylcat's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Classism, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Vomit, and Violence

haleylooloo's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-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

3.75

What a strange book. Very interesting and very flawed characters all around. Sort of in that weird place where I can’t decide if I enjoyed it or hated it, but I don’t think I’m as enamored as the rest of the world seems to be. Took a long time to get going, though the last couple hundred pages did speed up & get more interesting. The ending, before the epilogue, I think made the read worth it but the beginning did drag for a while. Very well written, just Richard as a narrator was frustrating, as we’d be like 3 layers of anecdote deep.

The whole plot line with Charles and Camilla was wild, so well written because when it was revealed, I was disgusted, but also not super surprised, which was the same way Richard felt when he said that he didn’t want to admit it but he’d suspected it all along. Also the entire part with the letter was so well done.

Not my favorite Donna Tartt work, but not a bad one either. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Murder, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Vomit

Moderate: Gun violence, Incest, Homophobia, Xenophobia, Blood, and Panic attacks/disorders

sleepy_ink's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-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? Yes

4.5

This book had me wondering about a lot of stuff, and the ending caught me quite off guard... There were a lot of small details that stuck with me, one thing I can not get over is the fact that I only realised that Francis was ginger, on like page 400 something... It messed with my image of him quite a bit, but it's fine I guess... :D
It also says a lot that almost every page had something for me to annotate or mark, although most of the time it was just me yelling at the amount that they smoked, expecially Henry, like for the love of god I counted 13 cigarettes during ONE conversation!! Like jesus crist...
Anyhow it was a enjoyable book, and it was definitely the type of book I like reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Violence, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Death, Blood, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Minor: Physical abuse, Incest, and Gun violence

bzzzzzz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.0

Generally enjoyed this. There's just about every content warning you could imagine, but they weren't being painted as healthy or good things. It was dark, but not in a way that made me feel slimy. I think it's meant to be chilling, though. The writing was magnetic. Good sentence structure and word choices. Lots of dialogue, but not in an intolerably slow way 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Violence, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Addiction, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Gore, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Domestic abuse, and Murder

fantasia_reads's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Alcohol, Murder, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Suicide attempt

Minor: Vomit and Injury/Injury detail

schorlett's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Addiction, Death, Murder, Alcoholism, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Drug use, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual violence, Stalking, Car accident, Classism, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal cruelty, Sexism, Rape, Misogyny, and Vomit

muriel_r's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Suicide attempt, Racial slurs, Toxic friendship, Murder, Drug abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Homophobia, Gun violence, Addiction, Suicide, Vomit, Self harm, Blood, Bullying, Domestic abuse, and Classism

star_oats's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

I keep thinking about this book even after almost a month since I’ve read it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Murder, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Violence, Vomit, Suicide attempt, Classism, Cursing, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Antisemitism, Misogyny, Outing, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Homophobia, Incest, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Racism, Self harm, Sexual content, Toxic friendship, and Xenophobia

alyx7564's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Antisemitism, Classism, Death, Drug use, Gore, Medical content, Racism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Rape, Suicide attempt, Transphobia, Violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Incest, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Racial slurs, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Biphobia, Islamophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Blood, Car accident, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual assault, and Toxic friendship