Reviews tagging 'Rape'

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

1758 reviews

laurora's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Slumps a little in the middle but the ending more than makes up for it and the writing is really good. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

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

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

aelis_'s review

adventurous hopeful

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and War

Moderate: Rape

capt_janeway's review

adventurous emotional sad slow-paced

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

3.0

The way Madeline Miller wrote falling in love, particularly queer love, was very beautiful and moving. And that is why it gets any stars at all.
Abuse and rape of women being written in such an offhand and thoughtless way is at the very least upsetting. The fact that this book is written by a woman is shocking. Firstly, I do not understand the urge of historic fiction writers to include rape because “that’s what happened in history”. GIRL. You are a fiction writer, you choose what to write.
Secondly, to have a story that focuses solely on men, and anytime a women even comes close to entering their orbit it is to be raped and abused, and written with such flippancy? 
 Yuck. If you insist on making me read that, at least give it the weight it deserves. 
It isn’t just once in the book, its again. And again. And again. 
If you are going to write about how women suffered in history, at least give it more than a passing thought.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

potatodel's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Homophobia