Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Circe by Madeline Miller

118 reviews

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

bethsiekierawalker's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Confinement, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal death, Bullying, Rape, Death of parent, Child death, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and War

nicnevin's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense 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

Poetry in prose, its an absolute gem. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Sexual content, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Pregnancy, War, Abandonment, Alcohol, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Death, and Infidelity

a2_rache11's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? Yes

4.25

First 2/3 of this book are amazing. Last 1/3 felt like a retelling of the Odyssey. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Abandonment, Confinement, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Death, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Animal death, Bullying, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: War

planetesastraea's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

Minor: Animal death, Pregnancy, and Fire/Fire injury

isaaah's review

emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual assault, Blood, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Pregnancy, Violence, Abandonment, and Confinement

Moderate: Grief, Rape, and Misogyny

Minor: Vomit, Alcohol, War, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Incest, and Cannibalism

thereadingnurse2021's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious sad 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexism

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Minor: Death of parent and Suicidal thoughts