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Atalanta by Jennifer Saint

8 reviews

danilo_syrtis's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Animal death, Infidelity, and Violence

Minor: Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Murder

aurelia04's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Rape

Minor: Sexism

plasticpansy's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment

Moderate: Sexual assault

shayna14's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring tense fast-paced

• 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? Yes

3.0

atalanta is my favorite greek hero, so my hopes for this book were very high. it was a solid 4 stars for me until the argonauts returned from their quest. after that, the book felt rushed and at times very predictable, while also lacking depth. it felt like the same effort wasn't given to the writing, honestly :/

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Sexual harassment, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

odinspot's review

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

• 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

johnnytest's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Rape

vixenreader's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Despite some pacing issues, this book provides Saint’s best heroine, with amazing world-building, amazing detail to the mythology explored within the text, and a happier ending than her other novels. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Misogyny, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Blood, Cursing, Slavery, and War

Be warned about the loss of a friend, humans turning into animals, parents leaving babies for dead, and victim-blaming.

thebookwalian's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring slow-paced

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

4.0

Atalanta - the forgotten female argonaut. Of course, I was intrigued when I spotted this in the description. After years of being bored to death by a seemingly endless supply of Greek myths about manly men mannily manning around, how could I not be interested in reading about this independent female character that was clearly lost somewhere in amongst all the aforementioned manliness?
The opening hooked me immediately - a baby girl left on a mountain to die gets adopted by a bear? I immediately wanted to know more.
I'll admit my interest waned a little around the midsection of the book - we followed along with the various pit stops of the argonaut on its quest and isn't much flow to the narrative, but that is the way with these old stories. When we focused in on Atalanta's story a little more in her own right, I really enjoyed it.

5* audiobook narration, too. Lovely voice to listen to and saved me the effort of stressing over how to pronounce all the Greek names...

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault