Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

Circe Excerpt: The First 3 Chapters by Madeline Miller

78 reviews

exactlyem's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood and Pregnancy

Minor: Slavery

jarjarblingg's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Slavery, Pregnancy, Rape, Violence, and Misogyny

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

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

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: Incest, Fire/Fire injury, Rape, Sexual content, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Pregnancy, War, Abandonment, Alcohol, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal death, Blood, Death, and Infidelity

emilywasbored's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

5.0

i support women’s rights, but more importantly, i support women’s (kind of) wrongs 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Sexism

Moderate: Animal death and Rape

Minor: Slavery and Cannibalism

horizonous's review against another edition

adventurous reflective slow-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Rape, Blood, Animal death, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, Torture, War, and Death

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Self harm, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Vomit

◦ Death = incl. father, husband, lover
◦ Mental illness = Depression
◦ Pregnancy = Child birth
◦ Sexual content = incl. zoophilia

ree_the_owlgirl's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

Moderate: Murder and Rape

Minor: Slavery and War

thepassivebookworm's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious sad slow-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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Sexual violence, Slavery, and Medical trauma

molly_rose's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, and Suicide

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, and War

damiscous's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Blood, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Incest

Minor: Slavery and War