Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Circe Excerpt: The First 3 Chapters by Madeline Miller

206 reviews

wishbea's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective 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

A love letter to Greek mythology that explores what it means to be human.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Rape, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Abandonment, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Sexism, Sexual violence, and Bullying

Minor: Animal death, Incest, Self harm, and War

margaritium's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.5

One sentence. All men are pigs in their true form. 
Circe was led down by her own family but she made one for herself with her glory. Love the character development.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Grief, Death, Incest, Misogyny, Blood, Bullying, Classism, and Sexism

Moderate: War, Violence, Toxic friendship, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, and Pregnancy

lizcheyenne's review against another edition

relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Adult/minor relationship, and Incest

kyra2004's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

Good book! Really enjoyed it, I plan on rereading it again one day.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Incest

Moderate: Murder, Cursing, and War

Minor: Animal death

avornell's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Grief, Death, Abandonment, Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Rape, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Incest, Sexual assault, Body shaming, and Animal death

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Death

Minor: Torture

james1star's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Torture, Pregnancy, Incest, Self harm, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Bullying, Blood, Animal death, and Sexual harassment

l_e_lavalle's review against another edition

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

lorriss's review against another edition

emotional mysterious slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Animal death, Body horror, War, Sexual assault, Sexism, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Blood, Cannibalism, Sexual violence, Murder, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Vomit, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Slavery, Physical abuse, Incest, Death, Torture, Rape, Abandonment, Alcohol, Violence, Suicide, Grief, Death of parent, and Confinement

sas_ram's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.25

Review will most likely follow soon

It is beautifully written and that's what makes it stand out. First and foremost it's a greek mythology retelling of Circe. This is a rather niche story. The plotline is basically just her mythic life. Yes it's not all accurate based on greek mythology but what do you expect when you read a modern "retelling". There are other myths mixed in to fill the story and make it more interesting.
But it is actually quite interesting with how different she was treated, who she became etc. 
Some parts tend to drag on a bit especially those nothing really happens in. Those parts with a more straight forward plot tend to be cut short where as I would have loved to dive deeper into those scenes.

Now I have high hopes for The Song of Achilles knowing how beautiful her writing style is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Confinement, Death, and Murder

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide, Violence, Cannibalism, and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual assault, Incest, Sexual harassment, Torture, War, and Rape

golelifsu's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Abandonment, Murder, Violence, and Sexual violence

Moderate: War

Minor: Incest