A review by kt2e56
Circe by Madeline Miller

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

This was such a beautiful piece of literature to read both in its language and how images were painted for us but in how it made such an epic scope of stories we’ve heard time and time again feel so personal and intimate. Ugh, I already want to read it again and I’m already wishing I can read it for the first time all over again. I hope this one remains a classic and as integral to Circe’s story as the original myths themselves.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Child death, Genocide, Incest, Pedophilia, Slavery, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, and War