Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Circe Excerpt: The First 3 Chapters by Madeline Miller

55 reviews

cannesi's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

2.75

I wasn't a fan of the writing style. I can understand that a lot of people reading this already know what is going to happen, but I found the future tense to be distracting from what was going on. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, War, Violence, Murder, Pregnancy, Blood, Rape, Sexual assault, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, and Misogyny

eni_iilorak's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Body shaming, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide, Confinement, Death, Grief, Misogyny, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Violence and War

bebidocrimes's review against another edition

reflective 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? Yes

4.75

Sofia, if you're reading this please infodump to me about how close it matches the myth. Just as enchanting as SoA, but it felt more familiar, more intimate. Something about a woman, even a divine one, making her way and building her home and herself is always going to resonate with me. I think Penelope got a pretty sweet deal, I would also like to be given a beautiful island home and a pride of tame lions.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Alcohol, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Bullying, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Abandonment, Blood, and Violence

glen3's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Misogyny, Body horror, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Medical trauma, Bullying, Death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, and Rape

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

Minor: Incest, Pedophilia, Self harm, Cannibalism, Antisemitism, Sexual content, Suicide, War, and Death of parent

louisa_pennyfeather2021's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense 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? Yes

5.0

I'm honestly at a loss for words. I have so many nixed feelings about the ending. It took me a while to finish the book. The writing is so easy to visualize. I'd give anything to see this turned into a movie. Amazing work, truly a wonder.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Grief, Medical content, Abandonment, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Animal death, Body horror, and Confinement

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Minor: Animal cruelty, Pedophilia, and War

drjoeby's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.25

Dealing very personally at the moment with, like, a weird fear of death for the first time (don’t people usually do that as teenagers?) and anyway the way that this book talks about mortality and impermanence is so…romantic. Like it makes me feel better about one day being dead, you know? There’s this bit in there, and I don’t have the exact quote but it’s

Circe talking about immortality and lamenting that the hills and beaches mortals never see change she has to watch move, that she can live so quietly in peoples’ memories but live forever, and being human is the opposite of that, we can outlive our mountains in name but not once in our lifetimes see them change, and that stable world around me is a source of comfort.

Reading the last few pages of this book is such a strong blow, reading “Pulse by pulse, his life passed under my fingers” and “He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here”. For a book about myth and immortality and characters that, through centuries of parody, have become like paper, there is so much depth in the way these themes and people are held, so much texture and reality to it all that it feels more like a book on being human, on coping, on living that I really needed right now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Pregnancy

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, and Animal death

Minor: Body horror, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Murder, Alcohol, and Blood

Two graphic, intense c-section births

rjstellar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense 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

4.5

(Page 152) "But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me." 
(Page 255) "None of that mattered. I had said I would do anything for him, and now I would prove it and hold up the sky." 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Confinement, Medical content, Sexual violence, Rape, and Pregnancy

ednam0dewannabe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative inspiring sad tense 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

Now I understand why many people recommend this book and the author. I found it super original and beautiful in both the narrative and the use of lesser-known aspects of Greek culture and myths, especially the way in which the novel is divided. The fact that we learn about Circe's life through the compilation of various tales reminds me of the way in which various myths are written/passed down.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Cursing, Abandonment, Torture, Alcohol, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexism

Minor: Child death, Medical content, Torture, Physical abuse, Vomit, War, Cannibalism, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

fiveredhens's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

ancient greece was kinda fucked up huh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Confinement, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Medical content, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexual content, War, and Incest

Minor: Animal death and Cursing