Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

168 reviews

queenie_ofthe_void's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad 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

3.5

The mystery was intense and it had me hooked start to finish. I loved Piranesi as a character, as tragic as he was. It brushed right up against the myth of the Labyrinth, but it wasn't so overt that it felt redundant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Dementia, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Slavery, Confinement, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Homophobia, Murder, Rape, Death, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, and Physical abuse

themirrorball's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective relaxing 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

i absolutely loved this book. the prose was fantastic, and created a vivid world that i missed whenever i wasn’t reading the book. piranesi is honestly the most pure thing to ever exist, i love him. the pacing of this book was perfect, with just the right combination of world building and plot. towards the end, i could not put it down. this book was definitely an amazing surprise.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Gaslighting, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Gun violence and Death

pastelmeganes's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? It's complicated

3.75

I felt the beginning of the book was a real drag to tread through. The halls and scenery were very daunting to keep track of. Besides certain locations reference multiple times, i kinda just ditched trying to understand where everything is. I enjoyed keeping track of things though piranesi’s journal entries. It was nice and gave me ini

idk why but the biggest plot twist for me was that Piranesi was half black this whole time! Idk why but i just pictured him as a whole white man. Also i feel i needed more on 16/Raphael. I feel she kinda got thrown in??  Something about her being a big center of the final act made me feel a certain way.  I wasn’t too shocked that Ketterley was the main antagonist, it was more the way it was presented that made it enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Slavery

Minor: Gun violence

livd1200's review against another edition

mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Confinement, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

lucystolethesky's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful mysterious reflective 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Kidnapping

penofpossibilities's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Blood, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Violence, Vomit, and Gaslighting

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Adult/minor relationship, and Fire/Fire injury

ayamaro's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Confinement

Moderate: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Death, Drug use, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Minor: Fatphobia

isabyrne's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This book is probably for someone, just not for me. It was too surreal and there were many content warnings that made me feel uncomfortable (and aren’t talked about a lot because they are spoilers). I also really didn’t like the narrator or his voice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Trafficking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

sketchydelusion's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Kidnapping

Minor: Emotional abuse, Vomit, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

thebookfetishist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

What the fuck was that? Do it again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Confinement, Gaslighting, Death, Kidnapping, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Slavery