Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

12 reviews

chelle22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual violence, Torture, Animal cruelty, Cultural appropriation, Child abuse, Blood, Cannibalism, Child death, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Physical abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Confinement, Sexual assault, Animal death, Death, Cursing, Grief, Incest, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Slavery, War, and Self harm

michaela999's review against another edition

emotional sad tense fast-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Homophobia, War, and Slavery

Moderate: Medical content, Rape, Blood, and Religious bigotry

kaitlin2749's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Absolutely incredible. Madeline Miller single-handedly wove a beautiful story that tore my heart apart and put it back together again. There aren’t enough words to describe how well written and conveyed this novel is. I can’t wait to devour it again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Death, War, Animal death, Blood, Confinement, Gore, Grief, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Rape, and Sexual content

analea_lucille's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Animal death, Sexual assault, Child death, Domestic abuse, Abandonment, Religious bigotry, Rape, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Death, and War

pitedavid's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

5.0

Extremly good book. Even while knowing the myth, i could still get immersed within the story and feel it in my heart. I had alot of emotions and avsolutely loved the book. It is a classic greek myth involving

gods, hubris, known figures, tragedy and prophesies

while still feeling modern and fresh. I liked that you can start reading without knowing the myths or characters and still enjoy it because of the amazing and natural explainations

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, Murder, Violence, Death, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Slavery, Toxic relationship, Body horror, Homophobia, Outing, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Sexism, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Self harm, Child death, Misogyny, and Classism

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

anaguana's review

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

Moderate: Rape and Homophobia

Minor: Sexism and Religious bigotry

ka_ke's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

3.0

Song of Achilles starts off strong, but as the war against Troy goes on, the story loses itself and becomes dreadfully boring. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Death, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Outing, Religious bigotry, Sexual content, Slavery, Violence, and War

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

matheo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Torture, Trafficking, Violence, and War

kliu55's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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? Yes

5.0

I finally read The Song of Achilles after seeing it all over Tik Tok and hearing my friends talk about it, and I am so glad I did. Having rarely read Greek mythology after my Percy Jackson days, it was easy and fun to step back into this world. I absolutely adored the characters, and the slow build made this book hurt in all the best ways. Even though readers hear Achilles' prophecy long before reaching its fulfillment, the knowledge of what is to come does not soften the blow when reading this heartbreaking story. I laughed, I smiled, I cried. Absolutely loved this book.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Death, Violence, Religious bigotry, Misogyny, and Sexual violence

There are descriptions of war, which involves murder, death, taking women as property, etc. but nothing awfully gory. Subtle, recurring homophobia.