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celtictales's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Graphic: Murder, Gaslighting, Child death, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Bullying, Cursing, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Sexual violence, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Infidelity, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Sexism, Child abuse, War, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual assault
irinalast's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Minor: Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Death, Murder, Death of parent, Confinement, Rape, Child death, Toxic relationship, War, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, and Misogyny
vnfhcxksiw's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Slavery, Toxic relationship, War, Toxic friendship, Violence, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Genocide, Infidelity, Murder, and Abandonment
Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Sexual violence, and Torture
sirenricobooks's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Blood, Emotional abuse, Death, Sexism, Child death, Grief, Death of parent, Trafficking, War, Classism, Gore, Violence, Child abuse, Misogyny, Murder, and Slavery
Moderate: Cannibalism
Minor: Incest, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Kidnapping, Rape, Confinement, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment
lavendermoons'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Grief, War, Child death, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Murder and Blood
Minor: Rape and Emotional abuse
oceanebooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
But - it was very hard for me to like any of the characters.
Then again, I have to give the author credit for this, because it's not easy to create round characters and make them all unlikeable at the same time. And with that I don't mean there were only round characters, because there weren't. For example Agamemnon, or Aegisthus. The main characters though, they were pretty well rounded. Especially Clytemnestra, she was so full of emotions (mainly grief and anger, but I'll let that count, too), and it was almost painful to see her realize all her misbehaviour and actions that led to the events happening as they did when it was already way too late. Cassandra was okay, too. It hurt me, too, how nobody believed her, it hurt to think of how things could have ended if people had just listened to her. But I know that's how the tale is told, so Jennifer Saint would only have made a mistake in changing that.
Now, to Elektra. I don't think it's too much to say that I really despised her at the end of the book. Which was so surprising to me, because from reading the cover of the book I had thought she would be this heroic woman, brave and kind and sincere. And maybe she was brave, but she surely wasn't kind and she wasn't sincere, too. I think she was just furious, just angry, and completly filled with grief and the longing for revenge. I don't know how to feel about that because on one side it's pretty dissapointing, on the other side it's pretty genius by Jennifer Saint to create her like that as I'm sure many other readers were surprised, too.
The events themselves weren't too thrilling, because I'd read about the core plot already in "The women of Troy", "The silence of the girls" and "The song of Achilles". So I wasn't surprised when like 90% of the characters died or got slaughtered or died again. So yeah, that sadly took out a big chunk of tension for me, but I won't credit that negatively, because it's no one's fault but mine to be interersted in Greek mythology.
So yeah, judging by the fact that I'm again unable to keep my review short and could say so many more things about this book, you know it's defenitely worth a read, even though it was not my favourite favourite one. (And this is all because of you, Madeleine Miller...)
Still an impressive and somewhat kind of women-empowering piece of literature that's worth giving a try.
Graphic: Violence, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and War
Moderate: Emotional abuse
Minor: Rape
mamaowlbear's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Murder, Child death, and War
nialiversuch'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? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Ableism, Blood, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, and War
nicnevin's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Abandonment, Confinement, Death, Drug use, War, Torture, Suicidal thoughts, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexism, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Xenophobia, Violence, Ableism, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Gore, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Blood, Cannibalism, Chronic illness, Classism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
taliatalksbooks's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Death of parent, Violence, Genocide, Death, Misogyny, Classism, Toxic relationship, Murder, Slavery, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, and Abandonment