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Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

27 reviews

penofpossibilities's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, Blood, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Violence, Vomit, and Gaslighting

Minor: Forced institutionalization, Adult/minor relationship, and Fire/Fire injury

hiddeninfantasy's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Death, Confinement, Abandonment, Blood, Injury/injury detail, Violence, and Cursing

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Blood, Gun violence, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Slavery, Vomit, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Child death, Cursing, and Homophobia

Minor: Excrement, Fatphobia, Sexual violence, and Trafficking

Homophobia warning is for what reads to me as the predatory gay stereotype.

nebraskanwriter's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Dementia, Murder, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Emotional abuse, Confinement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Cursing, Death, Forced institutionalization, and Physical abuse

yaoipaddle's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

I liked the book but I didn’t like the beginning. It took me until 28% to be interested in it. It took me a while and tbh still was hard to read Piranesi’s rambles at times. But the mystery was good and kept me hooked and interested in wanting to learn more. I liked how conflict and mystery was handled and balanced. I also liked Piranesi as a character!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Child death, and Mental illness

Minor: Blood and Violence

wrestleacademic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Blood, and Excrement

jessicaa_'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Toxic friendship, Mental illness, Gaslighting, and Cursing

Moderate: Kidnapping, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Blood and Child death

chrisljm's review against another edition

mysterious reflective relaxing 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

4.0

Despite the short length of the book, it is a slow start full of world building. However once you get past that it is so incredibly captivating, and I come to realize how amazing the world building is. Although Piranesi isn’t the only character, he is pretty much the only character you see majority of the time, but even so he’s engaging and the storytelling is fantastic, immersive, and so unique. I loved how soft the fantasy elements were and the way the novel was structured. Basically everything that I found slightly confusing at first were all things that I came to appreciate and really enjoy. 

I think Susanna Clarke deserved the awards she got for this book, and I understand why I heard so much praise for it, but I can also see how this book wouldn’t be for every type of reader. Luckily, I enjoyed it immensely and I found that this is the type of story that lingers and leaves a lot to think on afterwards. One of them being that personally, I would love to see The House because to Me it sounded beautiful despite its solitude. I also think it would be interesting to see how other readers viewed The House, in a personality test type of way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Gun violence

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Excrement, Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Vomit

Minor: Slavery, Suicide, Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, and Torture

amgbac09's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Slavery, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Kidnapping, and Death

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Gun violence

stephaniepihlkrarup's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

Piranesi is the new literary love of my life. It is profound and wonderful. It reads like a classic — one which your soul has read many times before - one you might expect to find hidden away, with an inscription on the first page, gifting to an ancestor of yours, by an ancestor of theirs. 
This book is nothing like what I expected but everything I had hoped.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Drug abuse

Minor: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Excrement, Death, Child death, Blood, Slavery, Dementia, Animal death, and Abandonment