Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes

21 reviews

oliviamich's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual violence, Grief, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Incest, Rape, and Slavery

Minor: Cannibalism

sareidle's review against another edition

funny informative medium-paced

4.5

Haynes' voice shines through and strikes a balance between academic and entertaining. I learned a lot about the variance in Greek myths and how minor translation choices can make a huge difference in the audience's understanding of characters and motivation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Death of parent

beatriks's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.25

Ar first I thought it would be a good idea to read this but by bit in between books. This was not a good idea. The second half, I read without mixing it with other books and I enjoyed it a lot more. 

I am really not familiar with all the characters of Greek mythology, so I had to properly concentrate to keep going. 

I liked the reflections and overall POV. Well done. 

Maybe now I might read Circe?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Rape, Death of parent, and Murder

aseel_reads's review against another edition

dark funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

For some reason, I have never thought that the greek myths we know best, are in fact just one retelling and there are many others that could be more accurate, or at least portray a different view (that view obviously being from the women). This was such a good introduction to classical history, in a bite sized manner, and on characters that someone like me (semi decent ancient greek mythology knowledge) is familiar with. I really enjoyed seeing all the art and modern media retellings of famous myths, as well as the snarky comments from the author 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lauramcc7's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and War

tashtasher's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Confinement, Slavery, Death of parent, and Alcohol

junglejelly's review against another edition

funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

Such an amazing book to delve into a few the women of Greek myths. A great springboard to look into other similar texts, too.

Haynes explores various themes and arguments for each woman, linking a few of them together (it's Greek myth, everyone's related).

Not a full 5 stars for me as sometimes I felt I as the reader needed to know the myths better to understand some of the points Haynes made.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Incest, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

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

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

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