Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Den mørke spådommen by Rick Riordan

7 reviews

abby_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

4.0

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This was hilarious book. I loved the Arrow of Dodona. I think it delivered some good lines and lots of laughs. 

I had a good time reading this book. I loved the return of other characters -- Leo, Calypso, Thalia, and Festus. I found that I like Meg as the series continues, and Apollo continued to annoy me at times. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Death, and Abandonment

betweentheshelves's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.0

Apollo is seriously such a fun narrator. In general, I think Riordan is just great at injecting humor into these books, no matter who's narrating the story. But he's really been nailing it in this series so far, balancing the humor with the darker things that are happening in the overall arc of the story. Those memories we get of Meg's towards the end? Oof. Definitely adds to her character development, though!

Since this is the third series set in this Greek/Roman mythology world, I'm enjoying that we're getting to see a bunch of other characters from previous books. It's like a fun little scavenger hunt, seeing who get to see next. I'm always a fan of interconnected books like this anyway, especially since this just keeps building on what we already know.

Can't wait to see what adventures are in store next for Apollo!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Death, and Abandonment

nevermoregothic's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gaslighting

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Toxic relationship, and Vomit

littleflowerfairy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Gaslighting

Minor: Confinement, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Toxic relationship is in reference to a familial relationship. Also, in case there's anyone else out there that also gets freaked out by foreign objects going into someone's facial orifices,

there is a scene toward the end of the book where spectral bees are flying into Meg's nose, mouth, ears and tear ducts. Then a bit later in the chapter, they go into Apollo, and he says he can feel them ricocheting around his respiratory system. Meg's description is only one sentence, while Apollo's is few more lines.

mengzhenreads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.0

Rick Riordan mentioned Frank Ocean in a book and my life has been changed forever.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death and Abandonment

the_embodiment_of_chaos's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal death and Death of parent

Minor: Child death

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

2.5

I just can’t. I didn’t enjoy book one, I’m not enjoying book two. I don’t care what’s happening in the story and don’t care to continue even just to see what happens. I also dread picking this book up, sigh when I see how many pages I have left, and can’t seem to remember what I’ve read.

11/21 reread review:
I only picked this back up because Rick announced a book About Nico but it picks up at the end of this series so obviously I have to finish the series so I can read the long awaited Nico book. Now I’m still at this moment in time have a physical copy but I grabbed it from the library is an audiobook to help me speed through it. I finished it in two days, and really didn’t like it all that much… ugh. It feels so weird for me disliking a wreck book so much let alone a wreck series but I’m just not Vibing with the series is at all which is also kind of ironic/almost funny because I just bought his daughters of the deep book that just came out I bought it on pre-order but I’ve told myself I can’t pick that one up until I finish this series soooooo here we go.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Cancer and Child death