Reviews tagging 'Cannibalism'

Circe Excerpt: The First 3 Chapters by Madeline Miller

43 reviews

orlagal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Incest, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Violence

makaylariley's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.5

I enjoyed it overall but I went in expecting an empowering witchy book and it was mostly slow and sad with some empowering witchiness towards the end, but by that time it didn’t impress me like I wanted it to. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Death

Minor: Cannibalism

oliverlang's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement