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Ariadne: Princesa. Irmã de um monstro. Amante de deuses e heróis. by Jennifer Saint
384 reviews
Minor: Animal death, Child death, Rape
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt
Minor: Rape
The ending wasn’t as satisfying as I had hoped. This made me realize that most of Greek myth is just bad men being awful.
Graphic: Rape, Suicide, Violence
Moderate: Death, Misogyny, Blood, Pregnancy
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Misogyny, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Classism
Graphic: Abandonment
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Rape
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Rape
It’s advertised as a feminist take, but I fail to see where that happened? Ariadne started naive and ended naive. She made a choice to leave with Perseus, and from then on became frail and scared of everything.
Phaedra deserved better. Her character was strong, blunt, intelligent beyond her years desperate for change. Yet it doesn’t end well for her, and all because of unrequited love?
Dionysus and Ariadne is one of my favourite stories, and whilst I’m not always looking for a happily ever after, this was meant to be about women finding strength and yet she ends up in the stars. Even though there is mythology out there of her becoming immortal like his mother.
I loved the start of their relationship, friendship and talks, him providing her a home after being abandoned and all the other women who were abused and unhappy. I enjoyed it enough to finish it, but it just fell flat for me. <\spoiler>
Graphic: Abandonment
Moderate: Death, Suicide
Minor: Child death, Rape, Violence, War
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, War
Moderate: Incest, Miscarriage, Rape, Sexual content
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail
Juxtapose that with her little sister Phaedra (who is the far more complex and fascinating narrator here, particularly when dealing with Post Partum Depression) who is so bold and headstrong and vibrant and also determined to live her own life despite her status as a prize for Theseus (and she succeeds! She convinces him to keep adventuring so she can do as she pleases while he’s away!) until
Now, yes, that’s correct in terms of the original mythology but I thought the whole point of the book was to flesh out female mythological figures more? This book offers ZERO explanation for the insanely drastic change in character when it comes to Phaedra. Was she being used to punish Theseus? Did she upset Aphrodite? Was she just mad? We literally never find out. Her only reason for loving Hippolytus is because he’s different from Theseus but it still feels bizarre to me that a 28-year-old woman, who as far as we know was completely sane, would fall in love with a child literally out of nowhere.
I’m really not someone who needs media spelled out for me but in this case some explanation would have been great because it truly is that sudden of a change. It’s a storyline that feels rushed, like the author felt she had to shoehorn in that myth about Phaedra because it’s so well known but she didn’t really connect it very well with her version of Phaedra that she created for this book.
Jennifer Saint is a talented writer. She paints vivid pictures and there’s a lot here that’s compelling and interesting but to me, this book just didn’t quite stick the landing.
Graphic: Child death, Gore, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Torture, Grief, War