315 reviews for:

Gormenghast

Mervyn Peake

4.15 AVERAGE

unreliable_narrator's review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

shaunwaldie's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

emkawe's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide

newsteadlibrary's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

emmalouix's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

weevil's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous funny mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

tpollack's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

ayeclaymay's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

peartree's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense

sam_bizarrus's review against another edition

5.0

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More startling and brilliant than the first novel, Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast is less a work of fantasy than a gnarled, twisty parable that, like the grounds of the castle, and the castle itself, is treacherous and overgrown. There isn't a fictional landscape more successfully realized and complete than the world of the Groans, and the bureaucracy and mythologies rendered here are sublime-yet-crooked mirrors of our own world. Fabulous, macabre, and fabulous again.