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Circe by Madeline Miller

358 reviews

forgottengoddess's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Rape, and Torture

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Gore, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Blood, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

littlemelly's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

gracefully_jk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-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? Yes

5.0

So very good. I finished in the early hours of the morning after reading all day and it made me cry very hard. An amazing book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Violence, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Incest, and War

Minor: Gore

For the worst/main instance of injury detail/gore:

at one point, one of her hands is bitten/mangled, with a few fingers entirely taken off. It is a brief scene, with other medical things happening (someone giving birth), and the fingers grow back in the end, but it is described in a slightly detailed/shocking way.

ali_ace2407's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Incest, Misogyny, Rape, and Sexual assault

linguistic_goblin's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring sad medium-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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Murder, and Pregnancy

welcometoellasbookshelf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

4.0

I was in a reading slump before I started Circe thinking reading it would bring me out and it did. I really enjoyed this book and I loved how it had imagery and I could really picture who looked like what and what everything looked like. Normally I’m having to put a poor description of who’s who but with this book I had a great description of everyone and everything. I loved everything about this book. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

molly_rose's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective medium-paced

• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sophietje19's review against another edition

While I wanted to love it, it felt endlessly repetitive and I felt there was no development. I felt like I was forcing myself to get through it and it never got interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Rape, and Cannibalism

bhu's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring relaxing medium-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

4.75

Circe is a retelling of Greek mythology from the POV of a relatively minor character. It is the story of a nymph without a divine voice in a world of gods; also the story of a woman in a world of men. 
In spite of being based on myths from the far past, the characters feel real and relatable. Circe the nymph is well-rounded with understandable strengths and flaws, the supporting characters are three dimensional too. 
The plot was engaging throughout - our main character interacts with multiple figures and events from Greek myths in a cohesive story that doesn't feel like a just series of scenes stitched to each other. The only part I liked less was the final one-fourth or so which felt like it dragged out the ending, but it does come to a satisfying conclusion.
Overall I loved this book and would like to read more of this author's work. I would recommend this book to anyone who like fantasy and historical fiction.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Torture, Cannibalism, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

Minor: Domestic abuse, Incest, and War

madisonjoy's review

adventurous slow-paced

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

4.5

Only reason it’s not a 5 is just the fact that it’s a little too slow paced for me.

This book was really good, especially if you have some background knowledge of Greek myths. The background knowledge is not required to enjoy the book, however it makes each character feel like an Easter egg. This book included so much and had definitely inspired me to read Ariadne next. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Body horror, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Rape, and Pregnancy