Reviews tagging 'Medical trauma'

The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller

51 reviews

saskiajva's review

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced

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

4.25

Note to readers: do NOT read any of the character excerpts at the back of the book until you’ve finished the story. I accidentally spoiled major plot points myself this way.

The book was so well written and i devoured it quickly. The voice and writing style takes after the way old myths are written so it’s a bit more formal. The love story was beautiful and i still cried even knowing what the end held. Beautiful story 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Medical content, Rape, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Death, Classism, Sexual content, Blood, Medical trauma, Sexual assault, Slavery, and War

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, and Adult/minor relationship

andriaspyrou's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.25

I honestly expected a little more from all the hype this book is getting lately, but it’s a good book nonetheless. Maybe I just didn’t find it that special since I already knew the story and how everything was going to unravel having read the Iliad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Violence, Grief, and Blood

Moderate: Slavery, Homophobia, Rape, and Medical trauma

Minor: Sexual assault

leonormsousa's review against another edition

challenging emotional slow-paced

• 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, Injury/injury detail, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Medical trauma, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Gore, Misogyny, Murder, Body horror, Death, Sexual assault, Slavery, Medical content, and War

blouviere4's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Cursing, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Violence, and War

captainoliimar's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Sexual assault, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Blood, Bullying, Death of parent, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/injury detail, Medical content, Rape, Abandonment, Death, Incest, Outing, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Child death, Classism, Colonisation, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Pedophilia, Racism, and Slavery

Moderate: Alcoholism and Alcohol

Minor: Self harm, Biphobia, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, and Suicide

breadbees's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical trauma, War, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Slavery, Sexual content, and Rape

megan_j's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I thought people were exaggerating when they said how sad this book was - THEY WERENT. Very rarely does a book make me cry but this one did the trick, and also kept me up all night. It is literally the saddest thing ever. The end of this book really saved it for me, all the way through I was floating between a 4 and 4.5 rating simply because there are SO MANY CHARACTERS. And they have SO MANY different names, and I get that it’s all the mythology and stuff but I found it sooo hard to keep track at times and who I should actually be keeping track of and who is going to important to the story that I need to remember later on. Overall it was beautifully written with wonderful characters. Read if you want to cry!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Classism, Death, Gore, Medical trauma, War, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, Rape, Slavery, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Homophobia, Injury/injury detail, Medical content, and Murder

julia_rose's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

Gobsmacked. I haven’t read  a book like this in a long time, if ever. It manages to be so many things at once. Brutal and beautiful, sexy and gruesome, heartwarming and heartbreaking. The hype had me skeptical for the first few chapters but I quickly grew attached and can already tell these are characters that will live in me now long after reading. The plot was immaculate; executed to perfection with the reader’s  experience in mind at all times. It’s a work of genius, no exaggeration. And it is as sad as they say, but worth it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, War, Blood, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Rape, and Trafficking

Minor: Animal cruelty, Medical content, Outing, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, and Self harm

pigeonpersona's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I'm glad I got around to reading this one. A beautiful telling of the lives of Patroclus and Achilles before and during the Trojan War. The first couple hundred pages were good but not great, and I felt like there could have been more moments added to make me grow to like the characters more. However, it was nice to have Patroclus as the narrator, as you could always feel his love for Achilles. I think I cared more about Patroclus' feelings then I cared about Achilles. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Child death, War, Violence, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Medical trauma, and Injury/injury detail

Moderate: Rape, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Vomit, and Sexual content

Minor: Cannibalism

des9120'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Such a great, emotional read from start to finish. Definitely one of my favorites. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Grief, Injury/injury detail, Medical trauma, Murder, Slavery, and War