Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

35 reviews

queenie_ofthe_void's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

3.5

The mystery was intense and it had me hooked start to finish. I loved Piranesi as a character, as tragic as he was. It brushed right up against the myth of the Labyrinth, but it wasn't so overt that it felt redundant.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Slavery, Dementia, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

miss_vonnegut's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

I mostly loved this book. I love that it almost feels as if you're meandering through the House with the main character for a lot of it. It almost feels healing. In fact, if not for one thing, I would have given it five stars. The one thing I didn't like though is a pretty big one for me. It's that the one character who is clearly given a sexuality (a gay man) is portrayed as malevolent and predatory. I don't think we're at a point in time/history where that can be done without other LGBTQIA+ characters in the same book who are not villainous. I'm still glad I read it for everything else that was in it, but I think it's an important thing to note and be aware of when reading this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping and Gaslighting

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Murder

abrasieve's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Homophobia

jakobvongunten's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Fatphobia and Homophobia

caleb_makes's review against another edition

mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, and Murder

Minor: Racism and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

clrdoran's review against another edition

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Homophobia

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Vomit, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Fatphobia, Sexual violence, Excrement, and Trafficking

Homophobia warning is for what reads to me as the predatory gay stereotype.

maeverose's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

3.0

This is one of those books that I like more in hindsight after having read it. It has such cool themes and concepts, but while reading it I was a bit bored at times.

My favorite part of the book is actually the beginning when things are still confusing and strange and you’re kinda just going along for the ride. I loved the mystery of not knowing what was going on. I loved the world building of the House. Such a cool setting. The aesthetics of this book as well as Piranesi as a character are probably it’s strongest features imo. The actual mystery reveal fell flat for me.

I liked that it was actually fantasy and not that he was in a coma or something like I thought it might end up being, but idk it just wasn’t as cool as the rest of the book to me. There were also some homophobic insinuations about a specific character that I didn’t like. His being gay was always mentioned in tandem with crimes he committed. And at the end it almost seemed to imply that Piranesi had DID and a new alter had split off, but DID can only be caused by childhood trauma not trauma as an adult, so that kinda irked me. But it never gives him a diagnosis so it could totally just be that he’s ‘generally traumatized’ and that was how the author chose to interpret it, idk.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Death

Moderate: Gun violence and Murder

Minor: Homophobia and Excrement

Drowning, Questioning reality,

amnesia due to trauma

. I probably forgot some stuff because it’s been a while since I read this

kaiyakaiyo's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping

Moderate: Homophobia

bhelena's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense medium-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? It's complicated

4.5

i'm not as into Haunting Houses as some other readers i know yet i still couldn't put this down. wah. that said that odd vague undercurrent of homoerotic homophobia confused me in its random unparsability

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death

Minor: Homophobia and Slavery