315 reviews for:

Gormenghast

Mervyn Peake

4.15 AVERAGE

charlotteforbes's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny tense 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

thimbler's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Torture, Death of parent

sofiakhaus's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

stephaniaesoterica's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

kidgoldenarm's review against another edition

5.0

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Better than the first one.

Seriously, I'm not in the mood to convince you to read this.

Because it's just fucking awesome. If you don't read these 2 books, you are seriously missing out.

Do you like "Downton Abbey?"

If "Downton Abbey" and Neil Gaiman had sex (I mean Downton Abbey itself the place, became personified into a sexy, gothic woman, like Fiddler's Green did in the Dreaming and she fucked Neil Gaiman while he was pretending to be the Dream King), "Gormenghast" would be their love child. Only written even prettier.

So read this book already.

Helluva way to start off my reads for 2014!! My first book finished for the year!

ezbun's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

rgimel's review against another edition

5.0

dark funny slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

the_scribe's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark reflective 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

sloatsj's review against another edition

5.0

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Such drama and pageantry and characters. Peake writes so well. I wouldn't say it's a perfect book, but if you want excellent writing and vivid expression, colourful characters, settings and a plot with tension, I recommend this highly.
So lucky to have learned of this book on GoodReads. Thank you to my well-read friends.

firstorderpixie's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark slow-paced