Reviews tagging 'Death'

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

420 reviews

plantydakota's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Overall, I enjoyed this book. I would give it 5 stars, but I found the writing style a little bit difficult. Until the last quarter of the book, I was often losing focus and had to reread whole pages because I missed parts. I also felt the book ended a little too soon. I thought it was leading up to Piranesi and Raphael having a conversation that resulted in them deciding to go back to the House, to bring James Ritter with them, and live the rest of their days there. Even if they didn't decide to go back to the House I would have liked to see their conversation in the cafe in the end.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, and Medical content

Moderate: Confinement and Mental illness

mobymaize's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• 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

What a truly joyful, kind, and beautiful read. Piranesi reminds me of my dreams of endless homes, endless reflections of life & the love of the world & its inhabitants that I hold so dear. 

Holy fuck this book rocks. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Slavery, Stalking, Kidnapping, Child death, Death, Confinement, Torture, Bullying, Cursing, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Homophobia

sunflower7skull's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-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? It's complicated

3.5

Very interesting book. Very psychological with a very slow start, but I found it very intruiging as I continued, especially with the unreliable narrator aspect. I enjoyed the mystery, though I found it somewhat predictable at times. I honestly don't get the hype myself, but I can see why others would like it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Torture, Death, Abandonment, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Blood, Violence, and Cursing

Minor: Homophobia, Excrement, Mental illness, and Vomit

Warning for amnesia / character not in stable mindset at all!

pansypantaloons's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• 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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death

vexatiousbird's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

4.5

Original and intriguing with a dreamlike sense of having been here before. I enjoyed the slowly unraveling mystery and the quirks of the location. Unexpectedly a little dark as well, for a book that seemed very whimsical upfront. Docked a partial point because I felt like there were some inconsistencies and questions left unanswered (besides than those which I think were intentionally unanswered to keep some mystery to the universe), and although it wasn’t a bad ending, it felt a little lacking.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

danasaur's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Death

Moderate: Confinement, Trafficking, Torture, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Violence, Abandonment, Murder, Gun violence, and Blood

Minor: Excrement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Vomit

hfrancesh's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Death and Toxic friendship

Minor: Gun violence

futureofmydays's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gaslighting, Death, Physical abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Torture, Vomit, Gore, Medical trauma, Murder, Medical content, Mental illness, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, and Sexual harassment

quinn_07's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Kidnapping

applesodaperson's review against another edition

challenging inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

Wow wow wow. This book is seriously a masterpiece in writing. It is written so beautifully and evokes such unique imagery. It takes place in a setting that I have never seen before, but I could still visualize it perfectly. And the writing style seems complicated at first, but quickly becomes super easy to read but also super complex. I also love books where I get little bits of info about the mystery, and get to try and piece it together as I go. For real everyone should read this book.
Read from the Provo library.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death and Child death