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_david_'s review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Vomit, and Kidnapping
Minor: Child death, Mental illness, Grief, Murder, and Toxic friendship
abookwormspov's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment
mobymaize's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Holy fuck this book rocks.
Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Abandonment
Moderate: Homophobia
danasaur's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Excrement, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
hfrancesh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Death and Toxic friendship
Minor: Gun violence
tifftastic87's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
The story was definitely slow, atmospheric and mysterious. We only find things out as Piranesi does and are just as confused as he is most of the time. I honestly didnt put it together until near the end and was so pleased with it.
Another "just vibes" book but any attempt at describing vibes would spoil the book.
Graphic: Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, and Mental illness
Minor: Excrement
sohva's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
Graphic: Kidnapping and Gaslighting
Moderate: Gun violence and Toxic friendship
myiscoh's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
The beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.
I dont think anything could have prepared me for this. Already mentioned how amazing the world-building of the House is, especially for me the hall Piranesi (for lack of a better name for him) travels to for the Other with the huge door revealing the moon and the hundreds of statues reaching out towards it from the dark - all very evocative.
Another thing i loved was the ending, specifically how the almost split personalities of Piranesi and Matthew Rose Sorensen end up as just two aspects in a new personality that Piranesi (again, for lack or a better way to refer to him) takes on when returning to the old world. I feel like it would not have suited either side of his character to keep Piranesi dominant in the mind or to have Matthew come back in full, so i love that it was kept “split” (though not really as both are now part of a new whole)
I wish i was in a place where i could analyse the more philosophical parts of this book, but for now the two excerpts i quoted at the start really hit me. I have so many thoughts but i cant find worlds that really convey them in the way i mean without sounding like i'm rambling. But especially the relationship between those two passages that i immediately think of is this: we are all reflections of the House (our world) and it, like everyone, should be treated with the same endless love, empathy, care, and respect that Piranesi shows the statues and the dead and the House as a whole.
Other notes: wish i could have known Raphael for longer, she seemed like such a nice person. The journals used as a device to exposit about the events from the old world was really interesting. Unfortunately(? maybe not unfortunate, not sure) i did see most of the reveals coming from way off, though they were still enjoyable and the twist that Piranesi was actually trapped by the Other (like how James Ritter was trapped by Arne-Sayles) was not what i was expecting, even if i never really did trust the Other at all.
Graphic: Gaslighting and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Cursing, Gun violence, and Mental illness
Minor: Child death, Death, Slavery, Suicide, Vomit, Kidnapping, and Murder
ankiaisreading's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Moderate: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
michael_richter's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Kidnapping
Moderate: Gun violence and Violence
Minor: Body horror