Reviews tagging 'War'

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

1715 reviews

mills33's review

adventurous dark emotional sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Murder, War, Death, Blood, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

akinnunen's review against another edition

emotional sad 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? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

marmari's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, War, and Death

vanyavampi118's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

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

4.5

The writing is so beautiful, and the story is immersive. I got lost in this sweet love story. It was captivating! I laughed and cried with the characters. I grieved and cheered. Going into the novel (knowing some Greek mythology), I thought I knew what was coming. I did not. Even though it follows the original mythology, the emotion and depth that Madeline Miller adds is absolutely wonderful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: War, Rape, Sexual violence, and Death

bigolscrewup's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

He is half of my soul, as the poets say

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun

5/5⭐

I literally had to keep two handkerchiefs with me to finish reading this book. I've read a lot of books about Greek Mythology, but nothing could come close to the magnitude of feelings this book bought in me. I've always loved Patroclus and I have heard people discuss about his relationship with Achilles all the time. I don't care about those discussions anymore, I'm going to believe this as an canon, because nothing could be better than this. One of the best books I've ever read and I'm completely blown over by the story and characters within. I didn't even think about this until I finished reading this book, but what a way to start the Pride month 🌈

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Death, Slavery, Animal death, War, and Violence

valerian_honeybee's review

adventurous challenging emotional reflective slow-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Gore, Death, War, Blood, Homophobia, Grief, Sexism, Rape, Ableism, Sexual assault, Violence, and Sexual content

Moderate: Medical content

missmarycrawford's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, and Gore

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Child death

davbat's review

emotional tense fast-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

Extremely tragic, even more than you'd expect going into it with knowledge of the story. Time after time, Miller shows you what could have been if not for fate/pride/war. Extremely tragic doomed romance.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Murder, Child abuse, Child death, and Rape

Moderate: Homophobia, Grief, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Xenophobia, Self harm, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Slavery, Death, Animal death, and Outing

Minor: Incest, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, and Cannibalism

Rape and murder are just as common as in the original myth but without any of the euphemism

beebowbabe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, War, and Violence

Moderate: Rape and Homophobia

Minor: Pregnancy

emikaa21's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.0

I usually really don't like first person point of views, but this hasn't stopped me from devouring this book.
I just finished the book and I have been crying for the past hour. Knowing how the story would end didn't help with the heartache. 
I really enjoyed the story, the language, the characterization of the main couple. A wonderful read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Death, and Sexism

Minor: Rape