68 reviews for:

The Bull from the Sea

Mary Renault

3.9 AVERAGE

beth_jwilliams's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

redheadorganist's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood, War

Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

kavinay's review against another edition

4.0

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Renault has this great knack for casually skewering Theseus with his own presumptions of kingly privilege and judgement that you consistently feel sorry for those in his orbit, rather than fall into what a lesser author would render as a straight up heroic power fantasy.

electrowizardlizard's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

teaxmillions's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lauconn's review against another edition

4.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

flawedamythyst's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

platosfire's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

directorpurry's review against another edition

3.0

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Read for the "Read the World" Challenge for: Greece!

gmco's review against another edition

3.0

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes