Reviews tagging 'War'

Pandora's Jar by Natalie Haynes

42 reviews

mandkips's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Murder

Minor: War

madetofly's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Violence, Murder, and War

berrybiaful's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative medium-paced

4.25

4.25/5

I really enjoyed this! I do exercise a bit of caution when delving into reads such as this one, in case the feminist takes were of the white feminist brand, but that wasn't the case here. 

Natalie Haynes brilliantly dissects the myths in which these women were apart of and offers new perspectives of their characters. I especially enjoyed the chapters on Helen and Penelope. 

However, I did feel as if she would digress in a few places and leave me forgetting what the main point was or how a certain tale related to the women she was talking about. 

This was a good book to start of my 2023 reading year!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Incest, Transphobia, Violence, and War

Minor: Rape and Sexual violence

moonytoast's review against another edition

4.25

RTC….. until then, support the HarperCollins Union strike!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Violence, Murder, and War

bookaholic_in_wonderland's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, and Violence

Minor: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Murder, and War

kers_tin's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Child death, Death, Suicide, Death of parent, Murder, and War

rbacon's review against another edition

funny informative reflective fast-paced

Loved this! It goes into so much depth on commonly overlooked women in Greek mythology and just adds so much context and background to their characters. Women have always been in the centre of stories, but we seem to have forgotten it and written them out.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Murder, Sexual harassment, and War

scarlettoliver's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Moderate: Child death, Death, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Incest, Slavery, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and War

kkalicky94's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicide, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War

mattyyreadsbooks's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Murder, and War