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Ariadne by Jennifer Saint

26 reviews

kenzieniichole's review against another edition

emotional hopeful relaxing slow-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? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, and Alcohol

Minor: Rape, Suicide, Vomit, and War

cassidyjennings's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Sexism, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

rachelparker's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Suicide

Minor: Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Vomit, Murder, Abandonment, and War

leahkarge's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

00phantom's review against another edition

adventurous sad tense fast-paced

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

3.0

This was just the book I needed at the moment. Easy, fast paced. 
I feel like it’s hard to write a myth retelling without it being super predictable and cliche and unfortunately Ariadne wasn’t an exception.  
Still a fun read and worth the time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

Minor: War

clairew97's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense 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: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

bimbo_andthe_bookworm's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

Ariadne was super cool to read, mostly I wanted to read it because of the waterstones displays and the cover is super pretty. Also mythology books are fun. This was less fun and more, a good feminist retelling of a story that I aparently only know the first...quarter of? It is like a way to say, hey, there are great women behind 'great' men.

It was pretty slow at times but I did really enjoy it. Lots of self-reflection and story-telling but thats what you get with greek mythology.

dont expect it to not end like the mythology!

you will cry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Alcoholism

evilyn777's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective

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

2.5

I feel like the message of this novel was "Yes, all men are bad". If I would live in that universe I wouldn't even get near a men.

The plot was based on the myth, so I have no critique there, but I agree with other reviews that the pacing was all over the place.

I still enjoyed the authors writing style, so that was ultimately what kept me reading. (I will also give this author another chance, since I enjoyed the writing so much.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Misogyny, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Grief, Murder, and Pregnancy

Minor: Vomit

mermaidstears's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad medium-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? Yes

4.0

I am absolutely, positively screaming after finishing this book. The last 100 pages carried even though i didn't love the ending at all. The writing in this is so lyrical and beautiful to read which l loved. Although Ariadne tried to gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss, the moral of the story is the world is better without men.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexism, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape, Violence, Vomit, and War

booksandbotanics's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-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? Yes

5.0

This was very good. 
I absolutely adored the writing style; it was so beautiful and lyrical. 
I also loved how Ariadne & Phaedra were described and how their stories were told. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Moderate: Vomit