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Circe Excerpt: The First 3 Chapters by Madeline Miller

125 reviews

shaapurin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Violence, Emotional abuse, Gore, Animal death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Incest, Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

g_monaghan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad fast-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

4.0

Circe my goddess 😭
I was surprised i never heard of this story before but the more I read of the book i started to realise how overt the patriarchal lens is in greek mythology.
Circe's confidence grows as the novel progresses and her resilience is a silent victory in response to the trials and tribulations she faced growing up and during her isolation. 
Biggest thing I picked up on towards the end of the novel was that her empathy was her strongest assest and I think she serves as a great role model for young readers to the genre of fminist prose.

Something I don't often notice in books is the writing style but I loved the way this book was written, almost in short hand and it paired really well with the pacing of the book overall. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

miraiyo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

rubybastille's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Gore, and Sexism

Moderate: Pregnancy and Sexual harassment

theblerdnewsletter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

I read Circe right after I read Ariadne (I had a neighbor named after her!), and I’m glad I did. We always hear Greco-Roman myths where women are always worse off. It’s refreshing that these stories are being told from different perspectives, so we hear more in-depth about them. I started reading the physical book, but I think the audiobook is a much better format for Circe.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, and Violence

inshirab's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Child abuse

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

laurajeangrace's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional slow-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Violence, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, War, Child death, Death, Rape, and Confinement

Minor: Sexual content and Slavery

josxphinchen's review against another edition

dark inspiring mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Domestic abuse, Blood, Animal death, Death, and Murder

aeolias's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual harassment, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual content

ambdocksey22's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child death, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Violence, and War