A review by gracefully_jk
Circe by Madeline Miller

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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

So very good. I finished in the early hours of the morning after reading all day and it made me cry very hard. An amazing book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Violence, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Incest, and War

Minor: Gore

For the worst/main instance of injury detail/gore:

at one point, one of her hands is bitten/mangled, with a few fingers entirely taken off. It is a brief scene, with other medical things happening (someone giving birth), and the fingers grow back in the end, but it is described in a slightly detailed/shocking way.