A review by stephaniepihlkrarup
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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

Piranesi is the new literary love of my life. It is profound and wonderful. It reads like a classic — one which your soul has read many times before - one you might expect to find hidden away, with an inscription on the first page, gifting to an ancestor of yours, by an ancestor of theirs. 
This book is nothing like what I expected but everything I had hoped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Animal death, Child death, Death, Slavery, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Dementia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, and Abandonment