Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Circe Excerpt: The First 3 Chapters by Madeline Miller

219 reviews

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

yrlaevelyn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective tense

• 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Genocide, Incest, Infidelity, and Slavery

its_vendetta's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Sexism, Blood, and Grief

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, and Abandonment

Minor: Incest and War

cemeterygay's review against another edition

4.0

I thought it was a really interesting retelling of Circe throughout her life. I really enjoyed the emotional progress in the book and how it was paced. I also really enjoyed Madeline Miller's prose and I think it greatly helped the emotional journey of the book. While I do feel like most of the cast outside of Circe was flat, I do think it really helped solidify Circe's isolation and how much our perspective is impacted by hers. I also really liked what Madeline Miller did with Circe's character and how she handled the myths surrounding her. 

I also just adored both the set-up and ending of the book. I think I will probably be revisiting this sometime in the future

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Incest

CW: rape by coercion discussions, verbal abuse, forced marriage, nightmares, graphic childbirth (c-section), non-consensual drugging, corpses, death of a sibling, death of a child, death of a father, death of a husband, death of a friend, death from a fall and death by drowning, bestiality mention

aimeemarie's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Blood

Minor: Incest, Pregnancy, and War

lipstickitotheman'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? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Incest, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Antisemitism, Cannibalism, Death of parent, 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: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

cozdroids's review against another edition

medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence

piquareste's review against another edition

adventurous reflective

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

absolutely stunning

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Murder

Minor: Death, Incest, Infidelity, and War

nerdsrope's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Incest