Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

A Canção de Aquiles by Madeline Miller

1111 reviews

evie_minnie_2210's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense 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? No

5.0

Be prepared to cry. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Rape, Slavery, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

hannahbaird2023's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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'd recommend going into this blind! Unfortunately, I had just finished Stephen Fry's Troy, thus I knew all the main plot points very well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Infidelity, Medical content, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content and Slavery

teslis's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

2.5

I did really enjoy it in the beginning, but at the end I stoped. It was to much fighting and I got bored, sadly. I’m tired and I think me being stressed to read didn’t help

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Deportation

ceejeffe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

I thoroughly enjoyed this story in preparation of reading the Iliad, translation by Emily Wilson. I was expecting it to be more sad because I saw so many reviews of people crying but didn’t miss not! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Slavery, and War

Moderate: Rape

qqjj's review against another edition

adventurous challenging medium-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

hayreading's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

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

4.0

I was honestly expecting it to devastate me more. Very enjoyable book, I was always wanting more. Loses points because I hated Achilles in the last third so much I lost a lot of emotion around him dying.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and War

q_bert13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense slow-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? Yes

4.0

After being recommended it so long, I’ve finally read the Song of Achilles. Though I enjoyed Miller’s writing style and twist on the Greek mythos, it seemed to drag towards the middle of the book, which made this decent sized read feel as long as the Odyssey (might just be a personal bias, as I’ve had to read that story far too many times for school) 
Overall though, a very interesting and heartbreaking read, with an ‘open’, but satisfying end. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Kidnapping, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

minnow's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

As a huge fan of Greek mythology, and after hearing all of the praise for Circe, I expected this to be a 5-star read for me. I was pretty disappointed in this novel. It's just too heavy-handed with the descriptions. Every single thing is described in minute detail. I don't need to know every time the character has the tiniest feeling. I don't need a paragraph-long description of an item that has no importance to the story whatsoever. I don't need to know the hundred tiny gestures or expressions a character is making when those emotions are then repeated in the dialogue. It creates redundancy and weighs down the story. There are scenes stretching over chapters that could have been reduced to a few paragraphs, improving the pacing of the story. There's a time and place for heavy descriptions and I did not feel that discernment was exercised here.

I did, however, feel that this story did a fantastic job of portraying love in a way that was intense but not cringey.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child death, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abandonment

divorcemaster's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Ohhhhhhhhh. You know exactly how it'll end, of course, it's a story several millennia old. You see the train's tracks, and you see the train, and you are still struck dead, and no mercy is shown to you because you saw it from miles away. The train hits you. Such is this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Rape, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Grief, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

qnnelies's review against another edition

this book is basically smut of young teenagers (12-15), and one of them has a foot fetish, oh and they normalize having sex with slaves…  this story is way too overrated and i could not continue, the characters are also really bland

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Slavery