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Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

66 reviews

avery_madison's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Abandonment

Moderate: Grief, War, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pregnancy, Rape, Child death, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Death of parent, and Animal death

maddiebusick's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Grief, Animal death, Gore, Murder, Violence, Misogyny, Abandonment, Blood, and Suicide

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Rape, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Trafficking, War, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Adult/minor relationship, Medical content, and Incest

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

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 against another edition

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

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

dummehure's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense fast-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

4.0

This book means a lot to me. Retelling ancient stories from the women's perspective is such a heartbreaking and important task and I am thankful for all the different authors that have made it they're quest to show the world how terribly mistreated women have been for centuries. 
As an afab person I feel and understand the struggles that Ariadne and Phaedra face to a certain extent and it makes this book a very painful and heartbreaking read. 
I felt like the pacing was a little slow at times but I had a really good time reading this and especially the ending solidified that feeling. 
Generally I book that I would recommend to any lovers of ancient greek mythology.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Sexism, Mental illness, Death of parent, Blood, Emotional abuse, Grief, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Pregnancy, Animal death, Toxic relationship, and Alcohol

Moderate: Sexual content

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

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

apocalypsereads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious relaxing sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault, Rape, Death of parent, Blood, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Abandonment