Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

A Espada do Verão by Rick Riordan

17 reviews

orchidlilly's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexism, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol

glen3's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Moderate: Ableism, Animal death, Violence, Islamophobia, Religious bigotry

Minor: Bullying

calamitywindpetal's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

frantic_vampire's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous funny lighthearted tense medium-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: No

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I really loved this one! Magnus is honestly so relatable. He’s so sarcastic, funny, and a total dork. It also helps just a little that he’s my birthday twin! And he is the quintessential Capricorn. I feel like we would get along so well. I’m pretty sure that Magnus is one of my top favorite of Riordan’s characters.

I loved that this book focused on Norse mythology. There were a few name drops that were familiar from the show Vikings, but there were also a bunch of new things that I didn’t know about Norse mythology thrown into this. It was just such a fun read. One of the other things I really liked about this book was that we got to see Annabeth again! I loved all the little nods to the other series. And the fact that Magnus was also being so salty when references were made to the other books, it just made me giggle.

All in all The Sword of Summer was just such a fun read. I can’t wait to read Magnus’s next adventure. This one is getting a solid four and a half stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Islamophobia, Gaslighting

Minor: Misogyny, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting

hannahmayhere's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Grief

Minor: Ableism, Islamophobia

mmefish's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 65%

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1 ⭐️
Skipped almost everything after page 300. Felt like I was rereading Percy Jackson (Magnus Chase is basically Percy 2.0) but a weaker version of it. Boring plot, same old dad jokes and poor representation of Nordic gods.
More on the middle grade side rather than YA.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

liteartha's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Blood

Moderate: Ableism, Child abuse, Grief

Minor: Islamophobia