Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

75 reviews

alireads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Death, Gore, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Rape and Abandonment

Minor: Child death, Murder, and Incest

sweet_honee's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-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

Moderate: Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Grief, Suicide, Violence, Death, Incest, Pregnancy, and Rape

didi_07's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Grief, Pregnancy, and Violence

Minor: Incest and Infidelity

quinn22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, Death, Child death, Misogyny, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicide, Sexual violence, Infidelity, Grief, Torture, Miscarriage, Colonisation, Abandonment, Rape, War, Incest, Child death, Death of parent, Animal death, Violence, and Animal cruelty

sarahna's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Grief, Incest, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, Death, and Fatphobia

adaora_ble's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Confinement, Pregnancy, War, Abandonment, Alcohol, Animal death, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Incest

milenasbooknook's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Death of parent, Incest, Suicidal thoughts, Animal cruelty, Murder, Alcohol, and Animal death

the incest mentioned above is one-sided, and it is between a stepmother and her adult stepson; nothing happens, but the book does talk about the stepmother’s feelings toward her stepson, who refuses her and tells her she is crazy

There are mentions of suicide and rape, but nothing too graphic; the rape is mentioned only in talking about the sins of the Greek gods, and it does not happen to any of the main characters

literarydumpling's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Alcohol, Child death, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Incest

Minor: Rape and Infidelity

tetedump's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Gore, Incest, and Suicide

whatjasread's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? Yes

3.0

• this had a rough start, but picked up around 1/4 through
• i liked ariadne, although i felt like i liked her mostly because of how everybody interacted with her rather than because of her as a person
• phaedra was very interesting to follow too
• very morally grey characters -- you root for them because they deserve better but then they do awful things and you can't justify your support
• i enjoy learning the in depth versions of greek mythology, especially because we only ever learn the basics where the women were the problem, or where theseus was a great hero
• overall, it was a decent story but i felt detached from it quite a lot of the time

TWs: blood, child neglect, child abuse, death of animal, animal cruelty, lying about rape, gore, pregnancy, miscarriage, post-natal depression, rape, child death, emotional abuse, incest, sexism, body horror, abandonment, suicide (hanging)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Suicide, Child death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Sexism, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Moderate: Blood, Abandonment, Rape, Pregnancy, Incest, and Body horror

Minor: Miscarriage