Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

La canzone di Achille by Madeline Miller

72 reviews

kicikici02's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Trafficking, Slavery, Sexual violence, Death, and Child death

summersnitch's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

5.0

This book was pure genius. It was so beautiful, so heart-breaking, so pure and such a good representation of a very different culture with very different values. I appreciated how in the context of the book and even for such a pacifistic character as Patroclus

the war,

the sacrifices made sense culturally, how much honor meant, which is not understandable for us, but it was important to this story and portrayed as such. And also, at which point which violences were acceptable and not. It made it very interesting to watch this different culture and value-system and learn about it. And it is just one of the greatest and most heart-breaking

romances

to read. Incredibly beautifully written.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual content, Rape, Slavery, Animal death, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Child death, Sexual assault, and Sexism

inkslate's review against another edition

adventurous reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Trafficking, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Slavery, Religious bigotry, Physical abuse, Pedophilia, Misogyny, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Grief, Confinement, Child death, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Sexism

Moderate: Alcohol, Homophobia, Genocide, Drug use, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Infidelity

alyssadavis's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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

5.0

I could recognise him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Grief

Moderate: Child death, Misogyny, Violence, Death, Abandonment, and Trafficking

Minor: Rape, Sexual assault, Pregnancy, and Homophobia

amack395's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

I found the middle section of the book slow paced and in places difficult to understand but it was wonderful to see the relationship between the two develop with them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Trafficking, and Violence

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Animal death

boy_topics's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful sad fast-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? Yes

4.0

Miller does such an amazing job of twisting the original story to make it super gay and incredibly engaging without straying from the most important plot points from the epic. I think this book should be YA, but it is well written, with a lot of really beautiful and striking moments.  It is heartbreaking but hopeful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, and Violence

ihavereadsomebooks's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

5 stars out of 5.

❝He is half of my soul, as the poets say.❞

I knew the myth. I prepared myself for quite some time before picking this up. I cried in Iliad by Homer, I shouldn't have been surprised when this book hit me and I was left breathless ... crying like a baby at 2 am.

There is not much to say.
I am emotionally unable to form a proper review because I might end up just explaining how great it is or just start crying.

I might or might not be crying right now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Medical trauma, Outing, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, and Violence

ella_1203's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Grief, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Trafficking, and Violence

libbyhb's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

Obviously I've heard about this book for........years, and I finally picked it back up (after abandoning it sometime in 2014) to complete a challenge. So I did come into this with expectations built up! I thought this was well-written and clearly based on a lot of research/knowledge. Honestly, my biggest takeaway from this was a sudden desire to read The Iliad, so I'm grateful for that at least. I liked that this was centered on Patroclus and his perspective - it gave the story more of a "human", grounded feeling. What I *didn't* love was...Achilles. Like halfway through the book I was already rooting for Patroclus to ditch this guy. He didn't make sense to me, and I rarely felt connected to him in any way, which was surprising because of how much Patroclus was supposed to care about him. Something that happens kind of often for me reading certain queer books is that I end up rooting for one of them to ditch the other one and get together with their friend instead. I hate this, to be clear! I am in a same-gender relationship! But sometimes the same-gender relationship is just not written in a way where I want to root for them at all. This was the case for this book - I ended up wanting Patroclus to be with Briseis, because their relationship was so much more compelling to me. At the end of the day, who cares. I had a decent time reading this book, and am excited to explore more of the mythology because of it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Rape, Sexual content, Child death, Murder, Slavery, and Trafficking

phenomenarwhal's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Trafficking, Violence, and War

Moderate: Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Vomit

Minor: Adult/minor relationship