Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Circe Excerpt: The First 3 Chapters by Madeline Miller

218 reviews

biueink's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity and Sexual assault

Minor: Incest

vannielou's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, and Murder

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Incest, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and War

kt2e56's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective slow-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

This was such a beautiful piece of literature to read both in its language and how images were painted for us but in how it made such an epic scope of stories we’ve heard time and time again feel so personal and intimate. Ugh, I already want to read it again and I’m already wishing I can read it for the first time all over again. I hope this one remains a classic and as integral to Circe’s story as the original myths themselves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Genocide, Incest, Pedophilia, Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and War

alicia_m_andrews's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Incest

jadehusdanhicks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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

I missed when this was massively trending back during covid but as much as it wasn’t an all time favourite I can admit the hype was for a reason. 

This tale follows the tale of Circe and essentially the stories of her life and the people she meets.  Which is shockingly a lot considering early in the book she gets herself exiled for life to an island.   

Weirdly poetic at times it had some beautiful quotes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

bri__'s review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.5

Such divine writing, the book has a story that thoroughly flows and it does a fantastic job at 'showing and not telling' when describing things. It is quite slow paced but I really enjoyed it and some things are a bit graphic. Circe's story was so raw and heartfelt, I was wholly enraptured with its events. Trigger warnings should be checked and im not sure why i was surprised about the incest in Mythological times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Animal death and Blood

Most content is not major as explicitly outlined. However, most were put as major due to no specificity regarding the triggers of the individual who decides to read.

dropkickmechanics's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

marena02's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Gaslighting

bookswithian's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, and War

beauvisseau's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Circe was an easy to read book that held me in its grasp, which is why I finished it within two days. The prose was not complicated or convoluted, but I tend to like a more lyrical and expansive style of writing. Especially thematically, I felt that the author merely scratched the surface. The book felt elementary, which is not bad but it did not fully soar like it could have. As a result, I did not fall in love with any characters or was moved to tears. Nevertheless, an impressive feat for a broad audience that introduces important (feminist) topics.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, War, and Classism

Moderate: Incest, Infidelity, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Sexual content