Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Ariadne: Princesa. Irmã de um monstro. Amante de deuses e heróis. by Jennifer Saint

384 reviews

elisabethfv's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

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

Moderate: Suicide, Abandonment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Rape

elizabeth_lepore's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Misogyny, Suicide

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Rape, Pregnancy, Abandonment

helenamichelle's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Rape, Suicide, Murder

alexmill's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Rape, Alcohol

Moderate: Gore, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, Abandonment

Minor: Child death

jessisafrog's review against another edition

2.0

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A frustrating read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide

functional_fox's review against another edition

4.5

emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Gorgeous feminist retelling, emphasizes the plight of women in Greek mythos. At times dialogue was wordy but otherwise descriptions flowed effortlessly. Saint does a good job at creating a deep sense of unease in readers as one discovers betrayals alongside the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Pregnancy

reellyfish's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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If you liked Circe by Madeline Miller then you may enjoy this. Definitely wouldn’t rate it as highly as Circe but still enjoyable if you’re into greek mythology.

Dionysus is one of my favorite gods so the book gets bonus points for that. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Incest, Violence, Blood

Minor: Child death, Rape

It’s greek so you can’t avoid incest

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

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I've read a couple feminist/women focused retellings (Circe, The Witch's Heart) and Ariadne is the weakest of them. I liked it overall, but it felt like the interesting aspects were not as detailed as other aspects. I was hoping for a story about the sisters being the focus, but the romantic love was more heavily the focus. I understand that we need to see these terrible dudes/gods for what they are and how they force the hands of the women in these tales (how women are used/abused in these myths and legends), but I really wish the sisters were given more of a personality than what we got. It seemed like even though this was supposed to be female focused, the dudes in here were still given more depth, character, and story significance than our actual main women. I'm sure it's difficult to build on characters that we didn't get much from before like the male characters of these stories who we all have baseline knowledge of if we know any Greek mythology, but I feel the women were just given very generic and flat personalities. Ariadne's character and Phaedra's character had so much potential in the beginning but by the end, they were letdowns. This could've been great, but it fell short on a lot of parts for me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Infidelity, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol

Moderate: Confinement, Sexism, Grief

Minor: Rape

kenzieniichole's review against another edition

3.0

emotional hopeful relaxing slow-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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Alcohol

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Vomit, War

cassidyjennings's review against another edition

2.0

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis