Reviews tagging 'Cultural appropriation'

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

3 reviews

gh2mi's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-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

A genuinely fantastic romance that hooked me from the first chapter and refused to leave my thoughts until I could listen to more. Great for pretty much everyone, especially older Greek mythology nerds of the Rick Riordan era and of course romance lovers. "BookTok" seems to carry such a negative connotation, but if it surfaces a book of such high quality as this and allows it to continue to thrive as The Song of Achilles has, then I have no qualms with it.

Do note that this book contains fairly graphic descriptions of sexual content and violence, so if that isn't your thing or you're looking for a book for younger audiences, you may want to hold off on this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual content, Violence, Grief, and Cultural appropriation

Moderate: Rape, Blood, and War

This book contains fairly graphic descriptions of sexual content and violence, so if that isn't your thing or you're looking for a book for younger audiences, you should probably skip this for now.

chelle22's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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