Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

315 reviews

vibingandy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, and War

Moderate: Death, Pedophilia, Blood, Medical content, and Grief

elena2000rr's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective tense 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? Yes

5.0

Despite knowing the original story, the way it is written is truly a treasure. I don't know how to describe how this book makes you feel but it's just beautiful. A reading for the vibes more than for the plot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Grief

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Outing, War, and Injury/Injury detail

ekcd_'s review against another edition

sad medium-paced

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

2.0

The audiobook was sooooo painful, seriously I wonder if I would have liked the book if it werent for his droning voice. Ick. But also the writing was clunky and the pace was weird. 

I truly don't understand what patroculus brings to the table, his only job in the whole plot was to talk about loving achilles he had almost no personality or actions otherwise

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, and War

elliehaahr's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Suicide, Medical content, Murder, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Homophobia

jacintajeffriesss's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

juline_chvdrt's review against another edition

adventurous emotional

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery and Medical content

Minor: Animal death

ghostlyprince's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense fast-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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Medical content, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Bullying, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Cannibalism, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

i_am_tilde's review against another edition

• 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Murder, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Misogyny, Self harm, Torture, Medical content, and Trafficking

Minor: Animal death

koinia's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and War

danaaliyalevinson's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

3.75

I liked it! But I wouldn’t say I loved it. The poeticism of the prose was often lovely The final few pages were gorgeous. I appreciated the reclamation of the Achilles and Patroclus relationship from queerphobic 19th century translators who didn't want to acknowledge the queer undertones of the Homeric narrative, nor the fact that in Ancient Greece, they were viewed as a couple. But something about the book felt very paint by numbers for me. It hit all the beats well enough. But sometimes I felt things happened because that's what happens in The Iliad/Odyssey, but Miller didn't quite find a way to carn it in her own right in this take on the story The relationship worked for me better in the pre Trojan War part of the book than during the war, but was generally perfectly adequate and sometimes beautiful. 

So, all in all, I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't say I loved it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual violence