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Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

147 reviews

cviii's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Abandonment, Body horror, and Confinement

Moderate: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Murder, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

alicia_m_andrews's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Grief, Animal death, and Abandonment

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Infidelity, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Violence, Death, Sexism, Gore, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Body horror, Incest, and Physical abuse

mxbluet18's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense 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

4.75

Trigger warnings for Ariadne include: 
alcohol, animal death; assault, attempted murder; bestiality, blood and
bones; child death, childbirth, cults, death, gore, miscarriage (past); pregnancy, r🅰️pe, sexism, starvation,
su1cide and war.
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This book was slow, but very detailed and I quite enjoyed reading it, even if it took me the best part of 2 weeks to finish.
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It followed the story of Ariadne (probably not a huge surprise there). It follows her from childhood, detailing the events of her young life on Crete as a princess, to her and Phaedra meeting Theseus, and then Dionysus. 
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As with any story you'd find in Greek mythology, it is riddled with deaths, rape, sexism and misogyny and a whole lot of war and general violence, as that was the way of many of the society's in history.
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While I can enjoy the stories, I also take it with a pinch of salt because it's a work of fiction, and there are a lot of actions and events that were wrong and unacceptable with the standards of today's society.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Miscarriage, War, Abandonment, Abortion, Misogyny, Murder, Child death, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

rachelcox'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? Yes

2.0

I'm sad to say that I didn't enjoy this book.  I love Greek mythology, so I was really looking forward to reading this, but unfortunately, I think this book is really boring.  There are some things that are interesting, but they don't save the overall story from being pretty dull.  There are also quite a few places in the book where the language and the way it's written is so flowery to the point where it feels forced and pretentious.  I really wanted to love this book, which makes it worse because I'm just left feeling disappointed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Abandonment, Gaslighting, and Misogyny

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Rape and Death of parent

little_lida's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Suicide

Moderate: Rape, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy

Minor: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, and Grief

clairew97's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Grief, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Animal cruelty, Gore, Infidelity, Suicide, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Murder, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Confinement, Death, Child death, Child abuse, Vomit, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

ofavalley's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Gore, Misogyny, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Sexism

bimbo_andthe_bookworm's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Ariadne was super cool to read, mostly I wanted to read it because of the waterstones displays and the cover is super pretty. Also mythology books are fun. This was less fun and more, a good feminist retelling of a story that I aparently only know the first...quarter of? It is like a way to say, hey, there are great women behind 'great' men.

It was pretty slow at times but I did really enjoy it. Lots of self-reflection and story-telling but thats what you get with greek mythology.

dont expect it to not end like the mythology!

you will cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, War, Animal death, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal cruelty, Misogyny, and Murder

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Injury/Injury detail, Genocide, Death, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Grief, and Colonisation

Minor: Alcoholism

niyou's review against another edition

If you want to read something similar to Circe, keep looking. This book doesn’t compare: the prose is indifferent and the characters are annoying and flat. Around a quarter through I realized I didn’t care enough to keep reading.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Slavery, Pregnancy, and Misogyny

Moderate: War

clarissajs's review against another edition

dark emotional

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Alcohol, Sexism, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Animal death, Death of parent, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, War, Rape, and Sexual assault