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stephaniepihlkrarup's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book is nothing like what I expected but everything I had hoped.
Graphic: Kidnapping
Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Drug abuse
Minor: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Excrement, Death, Child death, Blood, Slavery, Dementia, Animal death, and Abandonment
lowercasenospaces's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Kidnapping, Dementia, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Confinement
Moderate: Gun violence
sarah984'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? No
5.0
Graphic: Gaslighting
Moderate: Death, Dementia, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Mental illness
Minor: Violence, Ableism, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Animal death, Homophobia, Stalking, and Toxic friendship
madmantha's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- 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
Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Gaslighting, Grief, Violence, Emotional abuse, Slavery, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Stalking, Abandonment, Child death, Cursing, Dementia, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Murder
Minor: Blood, Vomit, Deadnaming, Torture, Trafficking, and Gun violence
The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.leduyhxxng's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
5.0
Graphic: Dementia, Slavery, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Death, Gaslighting, Confinement, and Mental illness
Moderate: Vomit and Gun violence
Minor: Blood, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury
j4cq's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
WHATTTT
the less you know about this book going into it the better
Graphic: Dementia
Moderate: Gaslighting
Minor: Death
nikenacs'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? Yes
5.0
The most five-star-y five-star book I read this year (sorry, Song of Achilles). I could talk about it for two hours (and I did, in book club) and still not mention everything about it that I liked.
Piranesi is a mystery, a puzzle box waiting to be solved, but unfortunately your narrator has no idea the puzzle even exists. It takes the term "unreliable narrator" to a whole other level. The reader constantly knows way more than the main character, even though he is our only way of knowing things in the first place. It fascinated and engaged me like few books before.
Piranesi is a drop-dead gorgeous experience even apart from the mystery. Susanna Clarke's world feels incredibly tangible and lived-in (even though so very few people live in it). The House and its Statues will live in my mind rent-free for quite a while.
But above all, and at the risk of sounding incredibly cliché, Piranesi is an exercise in humanity. It is, fundamentally, a book about what makes a person human and what makes society tick (even if that society consist of one guy, his distant colleague, a few dead bodies and a whole lot of birds and statues). Piranesi's caregiving, his rituals, his morality, his near-religious interpretation of his World, his refusal to harm even his supposed enemy, and, in the end,
Susanna Clarke, I will sell my soul to you. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell has already moved in on my To Read shelf. Thank you for this absolute gem of a novel.
Graphic: Abandonment, Confinement, Dementia, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Homophobia and Gun violence
Minor: Cursing
octopus_farmer's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Moderate: Confinement and Dementia
Minor: Vomit and Violence
lizardbet's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Gaslighting, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Abandonment, Death, Dementia, and Kidnapping
Minor: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, and Violence
hazelsnoot's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Mental illness, Confinement, Death, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Toxic relationship, Bullying, and Gun violence
Minor: Homophobia, Fatphobia, Excrement, Gun violence, and Child death