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gossanna's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Graphic: Suicide, Violence, and Miscarriage
emilywemily6's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Graphic: Animal death, Alcohol, Gore, Suicide, Child death, Blood, Grief, Animal cruelty, Death, Gaslighting, Sexual assault, and Violence
Moderate: Infidelity, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Miscarriage and Cursing
keeleyraths's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Graphic: Suicide and Miscarriage
_falieadeline's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Suicide, Abandonment, Blood, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Child death, Murder, Pregnancy, Violence, Gore, and War
Moderate: Miscarriage, Incest, Sexual content, and Rape
mxbluet18'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
4.75
alcohol, animal death; assault, attempted murder; bestiality, blood and
bones; child death, childbirth, cults, death, gore, miscarriage (past); pregnancy, r🅰️pe, sexism, starvation,
su1cide and war.
☆
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This book was slow, but very detailed and I quite enjoyed reading it, even if it took me the best part of 2 weeks to finish.
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It followed the story of Ariadne (probably not a huge surprise there). It follows her from childhood, detailing the events of her young life on Crete as a princess, to her and Phaedra meeting Theseus, and then Dionysus.
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As with any story you'd find in Greek mythology, it is riddled with deaths, rape, sexism and misogyny and a whole lot of war and general violence, as that was the way of many of the society's in history.
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While I can enjoy the stories, I also take it with a pinch of salt because it's a work of fiction, and there are a lot of actions and events that were wrong and unacceptable with the standards of today's society.
Graphic: Rape, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Miscarriage, War, Abandonment, Abortion, Misogyny, Murder, Child death, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Infidelity, and Pregnancy
little_lida's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Suicide
Moderate: Rape, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy
Minor: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Grief
read_with_riley's review against another edition
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Suicide, Child death, and Miscarriage
lizzie24601's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
But just like with Circe, I didn't find the story of a woman abandoned alone on an island for the rest of her life very compelling. So much of this book is Ariadne (and Phaedra) just thinking and thinking about people and things - there is very little action or even compelling relationships. So much of the book is devoted to the sisters discovering all the men in their lives are deceitful and untrustworthy - and yet, they never develop relationships with the women around them as an alternative. (
The book's structure also felt a little off. First it's only Ariadne's perspective, then for half the book it's both her perspective and Phaedra's, and then it's only hers at the end again. The first person perspective of these isolated women also means we have to read long passages of men recounting events to them that they didn't witness themselves. I wonder if it would've been better in third person.
Ultimately, this book just felt very lonely - Ariadne and Phaedra's only significant relationships are with their husbands and each other, and each of these relationships ends in tragedy. It was interesting, as a fan of Greek mythology, to learn more about what might've happened to Ariadne after the labyrinth, but the book was just okay.
Moderate: Animal death and Suicide
Minor: Child death and Miscarriage
polly_ang's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
Moderate: Suicide, Gore, Animal cruelty, Infidelity, Rape, Animal death, Blood, and Child death
Minor: Miscarriage
quinn22's review
- 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? It's complicated
4.0
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Death, Child death, Misogyny, and Alcohol
Minor: Suicide, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Grief, Torture, Miscarriage, Colonisation, Abandonment, Rape, War, Incest, Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, Violence, and Animal cruelty