Reviews tagging 'Trafficking'

Пиранези by Сюзанна Кларк, Susanna Clarke

16 reviews

naturalog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad

• 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Grief

Moderate: Trafficking, Stalking, and Toxic friendship

utopiaandmelancholy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I cannot believe I made my partner wait 6 months for me to read this so we could talk about it.  Absolutely gripping. Spellbinding. What an incredible concept, and what phenomenal writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual assault, Excrement, Vomit, Trafficking, and Murder

jaik923's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

adaora_ble's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Torture, Dementia, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal death and Slavery

danasaur's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Confinement, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Excrement, Vomit, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

maddiearthur's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Trafficking, and Gaslighting

briiforte's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad slow-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? It's complicated

4.25

The writing begins slow and informative, but that’s the whole point. Piranesi is an unreliably naive narrator who strives to see the best The House has to offer. He’s notoriously too kind for his own good, but—once the plot

becomes apparent that The Other is not a protagonist

, the remainder of the story is gripping and magical.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Mental illness, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Slavery, Forced institutionalization, Vomit, Dementia, and Trafficking

miller8d's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing 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? No

4.0

I loved that this book felt like a refreshing escape from the normal structure and narrative that many fiction books follow.

I was surprised by most of the book, and deeply appreciated that the magic of this universe was both fantastical and simple, both logical and inexplicable. I found myself confused about the storyline/losing focus frequently throughout the book, which normally would bother me, but it felt like I was experiencing the same thing as the narrator LOL, which I enjoyed. I found the narrator’s genuinely kind soul very touching and deeply enjoyed the process of discovering what had happened. I didn’t realize it was a mystery novel until halfway through which is awesome. The well-established isolated world meant that, with the appearance of each new person or information, it was genuinely shocking. Very interesting and refreshing read.

Also, I pictured The Other as Brett Goldstein.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting, and Abandonment

Moderate: Violence and Vomit

Minor: Child death, Blood, Trafficking, and Injury/Injury detail

Although this book covers many dark topics,

beyond the main topics of confinement and kidnapping and gaslighting,

there are very few graphic descriptions of physical violence or torture. Like for example,

there is a gun and attempted shooting, but nobody actually gets shot, and there are no graphic details about it, etc.

isabyrne's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

2.0

This book is probably for someone, just not for me. It was too surreal and there were many content warnings that made me feel uncomfortable (and aren’t talked about a lot because they are spoilers). I also really didn’t like the narrator or his voice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

englishrobin210's review against another edition

fast-paced

2.75

Interesting little book (esp the beginning!), but once the mystery starting unraveling I lost a bit of interest in the second half. Very atmospheric and loved Piranesi as a main character. The House was fascinating and I wish would could have spent more time with the labyrinth and the statues. Something that irked me was

when Arne-Sayles was revealed to be a predatory gay man. Frankly, an unnecessary detail for the story and put a bad taste in my mouth for the rest of the book.

If you liked this concept but prefer more thoughtful portrayals of queer characters and more time spent on worldbuilding, I recommend The Starless Sea. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Gaslighting

Moderate: Slavery, Trafficking, and Murder

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, and Excrement