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A review by bee_ayy
Circe by Madeline Miller
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
3.0
Pros of this book: it is beautifully written. Madeline Miller's style of writing is eloquent and rich with detail and for the first fifty percent of this book I thought it was going to be a five star read.
Which just makes it all the more disappointing that halfway through this book seems to switch tack. As soon as Oddyseus shows up I started having problems with this book. Circe no longer felt like the main character anymore. The focus shifted to Oddyseus and the war and recounting all his heroic adventures and I could not have cared less about that.
It also annoyed me that for what is clearly meant to be feminist literature Circe has virtually zero meaningful relationships with any other women, only men.
You are better off to stop reading this book after she turns the men into pigs, every thing after that is disappointing and uninteresting.
Which just makes it all the more disappointing that halfway through this book seems to switch tack. As soon as Oddyseus shows up I started having problems with this book. Circe no longer felt like the main character anymore. The focus shifted to Oddyseus and the war and recounting all his heroic adventures and I could not have cared less about that.
It also annoyed me that for what is clearly meant to be feminist literature Circe has virtually zero meaningful relationships with any other women, only men.
You are better off to stop reading this book after she turns the men into pigs, every thing after that is disappointing and uninteresting.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Rape, and Sexual assault