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Circe Excerpt: The First 3 Chapters by Madeline Miller

125 reviews

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

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

gwarren's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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

3.5

Slow burner, but worth the read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Sexual content, Rape, Sexual assault, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Death and Grief

dniespal's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

A great story of a strong woman but polish translation makes it hard to read. First half of the book is quite boring and hard to get through which I think is due to the translation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Abandonment, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Bullying, Classism, War, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Animal death, Body horror, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Misogyny

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, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Abandonment, Death, Grief, Incest, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault

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

jghedyiu23g89i3's review against another edition

inspiring reflective 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

4.25

The book was lovely. I flew through it on bus trips and it made the time more enjoyable. I won't spoil the ending, but it made me tear up a bit. I gave it 4.25 stars; it was so beautifully written and I adored the characters.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, War, Animal death, and Death

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

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

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

gabfat's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-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? It's complicated

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Murder, Torture, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Violence

lotus440's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse and Rape

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Death

taviarz's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

Meh. I feel like this could’ve been a deeper character study. Circe doesn’t feel like an active part of her own story and is instead a bystander of others with much more interesting stories. It was well written just not well developed.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Death, and Physical abuse