Reviews tagging Dementia

Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke

22 reviews

audino's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dementia, Confinement, Kidnapping, Death, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

Minor: Gun violence, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/injury detail

pinofomoh's review

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping, Death, and Dementia

nebraskanwriter's review

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

bri__'s review

dark mysterious reflective relaxing fast-paced

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

5.0

This book had such an original context, I have never read anything like this and the writing style is very entertaining. The mystery component was interesting and the journal texts were both visually appealing and made it easy to read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Abandonment, Kidnapping, Murder, and Dementia

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Suicide and Vomit

ekern1991's review

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Gaslighting, and Mental illness

Moderate: Confinement and Death

annablume's review

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

Not worth the hype, very foreseeable, weird about police, women and queerness??? Very hard to get into

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Dementia, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Kidnapping

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

cynthigarcia's review

challenging dark inspiring mysterious sad tense 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Mental illness and Dementia

stephaniepihlkrarup's review

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

lowercasenospaces's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Dementia, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Confinement

Moderate: Gun violence

sarah984's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious medium-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? No

5.0

Wow. I don't even know what to say about this novel that won't spoil the experience for anyone thinking of reading it, but I really enjoyed this. The descriptions of the world are fascinating, the main character is charming and his ways of thinking are described in a way that makes them make sense, and the plot took plenty of turns.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Dementia, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Mental illness

Minor: Violence, Ableism, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/injury detail, Xenophobia, Animal death, Homophobia, Stalking, and Toxic friendship