155 reviews for:

Titus Alone

Mervyn Peake

3.29 AVERAGE

stippling's review against another edition

4.5

medium-paced

newsteadlibrary's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

emmalouix's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

unreliable_narrator's review against another edition

3.75

dark mysterious reflective slow-paced

tpollack's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

ftairs's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ayeclaymay's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

nealkelso's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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ACAB: check.
Luddite anarchism: check?

Still some problematic treatment of women. 

Very interesting book, but very different from the first two. The setting is quite the shift. Events in book two and this one kind of make me look at

Titus

as a villain… or at the very least not a great guy. 

ellikiress's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious slow-paced

tamsinese's review against another edition

4.0

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A word to the wise, apparently the audiobook and the physical copy in the trilogy set are vastly different? Like the physical edition I read had 10 or more chapters that the audiobook did not, and tons of passages that the audiobook cut out. The audiobook was clearly an updated revision of the novel. But the introduction didn’t mention any of this! So if you get the Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy with an intro by Michael Moorcock then I guess just know that going in.