Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

35 reviews

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical content, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Outing, and Classism

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Xenophobia, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

fuzzywilson's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Blood, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Classism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Animal death

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

kyrakaw's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.75

Absolutely beautiful writing by Madeleine Miller. I would love to see more from her!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Genocide, Violence, Grief, and War

Moderate: Confinement, Homophobia, Rape, Slavery, Torture, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Abandonment

cloudypages's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, War, and Injury/Injury detail

gabydoesgrowth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Oh, what to say that hasn’t already been said.

Loved the imagery, sincerity, and vulnerability of the story. I particularly enjoyed the first half of the story as we see them grow up and fall in love with each other. That part moved quickly and held my attention. As we moved into the second half, I became less invested.

Achilles became a petulant child who lost all the depth he’d earned throughout the story, which is perhaps the point. Patroclus is his faithful keeper, who lost all self identity when they met and died protecting a child’s vision of importance and immortality only to be stuck again when he is tossed aside and forgotten. Only to be remembered by one who despises him and having his fate in her hands. Of course they get the happy ever after though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual violence, Blood, Grief, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Infertility, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

corinneeeeee's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Death, Rape, and War

addienoah's review against another edition

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

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

5.0

This book was a slow start but once it got Achilles introduced I was captivated. And it just kept getting better and playing out every scene in my head while reading brought them to life. This was very well written and the characters were so interesting. Even after Protroclus died, he still narrated and the ending with Thetis brought me to tears. 
I finished this in a short period of time because I am a fast reader that frequently reads. But I considered this a slow read because of how long it felt. Each page you had to pay attention and digest. The language was something you also had to adjust to. In all this was a medium read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Pregnancy, Outing, Cultural appropriation, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

triangular_pascal's review

relaxing 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

alicia_m_andrews's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny lighthearted sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Gore, Homophobia, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Slavery, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy