Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Circe by Madeline Miller

52 reviews

sydneeabt's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Animal death, Bullying, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death of parent, Blood, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Confinement, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Animal death, Murder, Violence, Death, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, and Gore

Moderate: War, Torture, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Sexism, and Vomit

Minor: Suicide, Sexual content, Ableism, Self harm, and Child death

l_e_lavalle's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.5

Beautiful writing with vivid descriptions! Would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Rape, Medical content, and Sexual assault

Minor: War, Child abuse, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Incest, and Pedophilia

luminifera's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-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 absolutely loved it. What a beautiful retelling of the myth. So many details!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexual assault, Body horror, Cannibalism, Confinement, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Animal death, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual content, Violence, Bullying, Child death, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body shaming, Sexual harassment, Torture, Child abuse, Cursing, Rape, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Death, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, War, Self harm, Infidelity, Addiction, Incest, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Abandonment, Xenophobia, and Alcohol

It's a heavy book. However, very much worth the read, and

it has a happy ending!

halfbloodstan's review

emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.75

Circe is the best female protagonist ever

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Medical content

Moderate: Sexual assault

elizlizabeth's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

I was hooked by the beginning, but the pacing went all weird to the point I kept thinking it was about to end but no, it kept going on and on and on. If you're a fan of Greek mythology I guess it's a fun fanfic type of story but I honestly felt it needed a bit of editing. Circe as a character had good insight but imocould've used some more unhinged-ness. It's like the plot kept trying to justify her actions and in doing so, judging her with a human sized scale which got me rolling my eyes at one point tbh. Better than TSoA, which I realize now, falls in the same pit with the justifying and rationalizing totally unjustifiable (but entretaining) decisions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Rape, and Torture

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

lajoy's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

Moderate: Child abuse, Medical content, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Torture, Toxic relationship, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, and Sexism

Minor: War

cannesi's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

2.75

I wasn't a fan of the writing style. I can understand that a lot of people reading this already know what is going to happen, but I found the future tense to be distracting from what was going on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, War, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, Blood, Rape, Sexual assault, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, and Misogyny

eni_iilorak's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Body shaming, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide, Confinement, Death, Grief, Misogyny, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Violence and War

bebidocrimes's review

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