Reviews tagging 'War'

The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller

1081 reviews

aleksanski's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Rape, and War

hrtallura's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Violence, Slavery, and Death

Minor: Rape

alexwmoore's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Homophobia, War, Genocide, Gore, Death, Violence, Physical abuse, Murder, and Classism

ivanaestaba's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

painfully amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Slavery, Injury/injury detail, Murder, War, Child death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Death, Self harm, Genocide, and Gore

xdani3llex's review

adventurous emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, War, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Death, Violence, and Adult/minor relationship

i_am_tilde's review

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Murder, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Death, Sexual violence, Blood, Violence, Rape, and War

Moderate: Child death, Child abuse, Misogyny, Medical content, Trafficking, Torture, and Self harm

Minor: Animal death

stinkyfrog's review

adventurous emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Slavery, Sexual content, and War

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexual assault, Rape, and Infidelity

msrsmoony's review against another edition

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

loved this so much!! a lot of people said this was very sad, but honestly I don’t think it was that bad. not saying that it’s not sad at all, but it just wasn’t really what I was expecting.
overall, I do recommend this and I think you should read this too!! :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

koinania's review

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, War, Violence, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, and Medical content

irinalast's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Efficient writing, yet poetic storytelling.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Animal death, Homophobia, Violence, Murder, War, Blood, Grief, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Death