Reviews tagging 'Infidelity'

Circe by Madeline Miller

227 reviews

caitlinemccann's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Death, Confinement, Misogyny, Grief, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Murder, Abandonment, Animal death, Sexual content, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Violence, Toxic friendship, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cannibalism and Child death

tottles's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Body horror, Death, Murder, Pregnancy, and Blood

Moderate: Physical abuse, Incest, Child death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Torture, Animal death, and Bullying

Minor: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Alcohol

linneak's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Death, Body horror, Sexism, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Sexual content, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Child death, Emotional abuse, Animal death, Bullying, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual harassment

Minor: War, Confinement, and Incest

maudesoul's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

A feminist tale featuring one of the lesser known characters in Greek mythology gets her own legendary hero's journey.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Rape, Murder, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Animal cruelty, Sexism, War, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, and Grief

searedfish's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Rape

Minor: Death, Violence, and Infidelity

deanamethyst's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious fast-paced

• 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Infidelity, Sexual assault, Death, Murder, Violence, and Pregnancy

majestictrilobite's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infidelity, Slavery, Rape, Sexual assault, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Bullying, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual violence, and Body horror

lauramcc7's review

adventurous emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Abandonment, Rape, Violence, Death, Torture, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Body horror, Animal death, and Infidelity

mmanuel's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Sexual violence, Murder, Infertility, Torture, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Infidelity, Rape, Death, Confinement, Child death, and Toxic relationship

bee_ayy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

Pros of this book: it is beautifully written. Madeline Miller's style of writing is eloquent and rich with detail and for the first fifty percent of this book I thought it was going to be a five star read.

Which just makes it all the more disappointing that halfway through this book seems to switch tack. As soon as Oddyseus shows up I started having problems with this book. Circe no longer felt like the main character anymore. The focus shifted to Oddyseus and the war and recounting all his heroic adventures and I could not have cared less about that.

It also annoyed me that for what is clearly meant to be feminist literature Circe has virtually zero meaningful relationships with any other women, only men.

You are better off to stop reading this book after she turns the men into pigs, every thing after that is disappointing and uninteresting.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault