Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

96 reviews

monica_oliv's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH PIRANESI I LOVE YOU AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Sexual violence, Violence, and Vomit

laguerrelewis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

I have never read anything quite like Piranesi. I am certainly eager to read Susanna Clarke’s other work, as I’m incredibly curious as to see what else the imaginative mind that spawned this book can come up with. The prose is beautiful and at times haunting. The way dramatic irony is utilized is masterful. I highly recommend you go in as blind as you can.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Slavery, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

bskalka's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

I want this book to be my favorite read of the year soooo bad but I was so lost during the older journal entries. They were too big a part of this book for it to not effect the rating. I still absolutely love this book however, and would highly recommend to anyone thinking about reading this.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

criscroscris's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, and Abandonment

bbmaan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

arminmasala's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-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

5.0

A intriguing mystery that doesn't pretend to be deeper than it is, nonetheless drawing in the reader. A great read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Child death and Murder

Minor: Sexual violence

swoodo's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

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

4.25

Written with an ease of plotting and prose that makes it almost intimidating. It’s paced really well and the mystery, though not all that deep or complex, is satisfying enough. It’s a light and fun read really. Don’t think it’ll stick around in my mind too long, but what it does it does exceptionally well.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Kidnapping, Murder, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Minor: Gun violence and Vomit

vessel's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

The Beauty of the House is immesurable; its Kindness infinite.

This book was very interesting, though for me, a bit hard to get into. My personal issue was that due to attention problems, I found the protagonist's voice extremely difficult to read at times, since he tends to capitalize every word he finds important. This is excellent characterization, and I do not wish it was different, but it made getting into the groove more challenging for me.

It's a beautiful, achingly human story. I recommend borrowing or getting a physical copy if at all possible, because when the connections started connecting, I really wanted to flip back to look at stuff that was going on 50 pages ago in a new light, which was difficult with a digital copy. It's a lot of fun watching the mystery unfold.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

Moderate: Grief and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fatphobia, Blood, and Murder

sxndaze's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective 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

4.5

The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; its Kindness infinite.

an absolute whirlwind 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Mental illness, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood and Murder

kmmckeen's review against another edition

mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Abandonment

Moderate: Death

Minor: Sexual assault and Excrement