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Circe by Madeline Miller

114 reviews

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

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

4.75

Sofia, if you're reading this please infodump to me about how close it matches the myth. Just as enchanting as SoA, but it felt more familiar, more intimate. Something about a woman, even a divine one, making her way and building her home and herself is always going to resonate with me. I think Penelope got a pretty sweet deal, I would also like to be given a beautiful island home and a pride of tame lions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Alcohol, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Bullying, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Abandonment, Blood, and Violence

tabea_hg's review against another edition

dark informative reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Torture, Pregnancy, Bullying, Death, Rape, Sexual content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Blood

kimveach's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.75

Fantasy is not my favorite genre, but I enjoyed revisiting my college Greek Mythology classes via this story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Death, Infidelity, Murder, Sexual assault, Violence, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual content, and War

dniespal's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

A great story of a strong woman but polish translation makes it hard to read. First half of the book is quite boring and hard to get through which I think is due to the translation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Bullying, Classism, War, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Misogyny

laurajgx's review against another edition

hopeful mysterious reflective sad 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

4.25

Lovely written. Circe is a great character and we move with her through her centuries of being immortal. She is a goddess but painted very humanlike, we read of her pain, anger, hopes, joy, shame and grieves. Her thriumps and mistakes. It's not plot driven but definitely just about her life and character development. It was a good read, wasn't boring, kept it interesting.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Bullying, and Animal death

Minor: Self harm and War

birthisacurse's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Rape, and Sexual assault

Minor: Death of parent and Animal death

seanml's review against another edition

challenging dark 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

4.0

Madeline Miller evolves her craft with Circe in a way that is both a spiritual continuation of the Song of Achilles, while also being a completely independent narrative on its own. The pantheon and characters of Greek legend are all written very well, beginning as their one-note idealized selves, and turning into multi-faceted characters by the novel's end. A pleasure as always. 8/10.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Pregnancy, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Torture, Violence, War, Alcohol, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Sexism, Murder, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

antoniav'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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content, Murder, Rape, Death, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cannibalism, Child abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

jessthanthree's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury and Sexual assault

Moderate: Sexism

emtheune's review

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

This book is absolutely phenomenal. Beautiful prose, stunning descriptions. It carries some heavy emotional themes/lessons, but does so in a way that’s awe inspiring. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, War, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, and Infidelity