aceamelia 's review for:

Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon

4.75

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Beautiful, funny, gut wrenching, hard, poetic, desperately sad - a true epic, a wonder of a book. I laughed and I cried a lot. Buy this for the theatre-lover or Ancient Greek enthusiast in your life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Xenophobia, Alcohol, War