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Circe Excerpt: The First 3 Chapters by Madeline Miller

126 reviews

franny__'s review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious relaxing slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Violence, and 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

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

rwilcox's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring 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

This is the best book I've read in a long while. It sweeps you up in its waves and keeps you aloft the whole time. It's so very quotable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Physical abuse, Body horror, Confinement, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Murder, Sexual assault, and Rape

Minor: Animal death and Colonisation

rebyrina's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Violence, War, Death, Animal death, Blood, Rape, Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Physical abuse

zombiemozart0725's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Madeline Miller, possessing a litany of academic qualifications that set her apart from the world of Greek mythology fanfiction, manages to combine in this book an intimate knowledge of the Greek theogony and the family trees that bind all Greek gods, a wealth of character development for one of the most interesting figures in the stories of both Odysseus and Medea, AND a brutally honest feminist gaze at the Ancient Greek world from the perspective of the women who lived within it. She communicates this understanding of her material through gorgeous prose rife with metaphor (as this is what a myth is at its core) without stepping onto the slippery slope of purple prose that endangers the comprehensibility of the entire book. Grim without being hopeless, witty without being obnoxious, and surprising even when we've known how such stories have ended for thousands of years, Miller is all at once a historian, a poet, and a feminist in this book. Its depiction of its complex cast of characters makes going back to Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series genuinely jarring. If Riordan's sprawling, quippy, seemingly endless mythological universe is comparable to the MCU, Miller has written Logan. She is in a league of her own. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault and Body horror

theoriebubble's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

2.5

ich kann eher millers kurzgeschichte galatea empfehlen als dieses buch

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal cruelty, Rape, Death, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Sexual violence

readingwithkaitlyn's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Grief, Confinement, Classism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Rape, Gore, Religious bigotry, Death, Sexual violence, Murder, and Sexism

linossidepiece's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Death, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Incest, Pregnancy, and Grief

smkelly1997's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

This book was highly enjoyable! I found it slow at times and the plot at times felt dragging but overall a very good book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Rape, Sexual violence, Abandonment, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Murder, Death, Infidelity, and Physical abuse