Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

154 reviews

lydiavsbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Erm wow. I didn't expect to love this as much as I did. It was, ngl, a cover buy (I mean look at it, can you blame me?), but the writing is just as beautiful as the cover. I'm in love with Ariadne and her sister Phaedra and the whole book just feels like an ode to women. 

I love the constant reflection, their faults and their growth throughout. I love the ending, so fittingly tragic yet beautiful. This will stay with me for a long time and I am so glad of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexism, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Violence

lauratatum's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Abandonment

tramonta's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective 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? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Genocide, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Murder, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Rape

tiannakelly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Self harm, Suicide, Violence, and Pregnancy

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, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

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

booksthatburn's review against another edition

It begins with many descriptions of backstory, almost all of which involve events of sexual and misogynistic violence. They're all from various myths I'm familiar with, but it was too much at once for me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, and Rape

TW for bestiality (backstory).

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

icarusandthesun's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

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

1.0

This was a buddy-read for me—the only reason why I did not immediately dnf this book after 200 pages.
It's so wordy and slow and boring. Fancy words and fancy sentence structures might be nice from time to time, but not to this extend. It was so tiring and my attention wavered frequently, making the whole experience rather unenjoyable.
The story wasn't quite it either. Lots of insta love and betrayal and nothing really of value. The message was repetitive and nothing new or revolutionary. I was expecting rich feminist commentary and some of it was good, not gonna lie, but most of it was just the same "men suck" and "gods suck" and so forth, as if everybody wasn't already aware.

Deeply disappointed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

bitterseason's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Rape, Violence, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

realalexmartin's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

I came into this book thinking it would simply be a re-telling of the Theseus and the Minotaur myth from Ariadne’s perspective,

but what I got was an epic and detailed life story of Ariadne that is  surprising, comforting, and nothing quite like what I’ve read before. I think it’s also a stroke of genius to use a character like Ariadne, who is widely unknown yet quite significant, to speak on the treatment of women in all of Greek mythology (and wider storytelling in general)

. I think the story kept getting better and better as it continued further from its initial premise. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, and War