Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Piranezis by Susanna Clarke

92 reviews

corpseparty's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious relaxing 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Death

abbiewhitehead's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective slow-paced

• 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Forced institutionalization

eegekay's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Death, Abandonment, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Child death

sunsetcity's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Confinement, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

stephaniepihlkrarup's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• 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

Piranesi is the new literary love of my life. It is profound and wonderful. It reads like a classic — one which your soul has read many times before - one you might expect to find hidden away, with an inscription on the first page, gifting to an ancestor of yours, by an ancestor of theirs. 
This book is nothing like what I expected but everything I had hoped.

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Content Warnings

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

kaylamoran's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

5.0

Easy 5 stars for me.  Many people say they struggle with the first part of the book being boring, I did not find that to be the case at all.  I loved it from moment 1.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Confinement, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

maren_hemsath's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Confinement, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Murder and Gun violence

friendly_neighborhood_grandma's review against another edition

mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

3.25

This is a relatively short book. How did all the action start only at like 50% (if not 75%)? At first I was hooked. I liked the dream-like atmosphere, mistery, and vibes. But. This action thing started just before me dnf ing this. At some point (second cuarter?)i got annoyed by piranesi’s innosence. Even the action started slowly and built itself up. Then down again.. i wouldnt recommend spending your time on this. Read a spoilary discussion somewhere if you must. There are much better things out there. If there were any plot twists at all I predicted them already. Yes the 6th and 7th parts are nice. But still. Dissapointment.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Abandonment

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Gun violence and Vomit

Very big endless spaces.

checkabookout's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious medium-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

3.25

I don’t even know how I feel about this book. If you as a reader do not enjoy being in the dark about a lot of things and having to wait a majority of the book for them to be revealed, this is not the book for you. I respect the author for the choices they made, but a lot of them made me genuinely not enjoy the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Abandonment, and Death

froggybooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

i nearly cried. it would be a 5 star but i had to google so many words. literally the most beautiful imagery.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Abandonment, Death, Kidnapping, and Confinement

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Gun violence