Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan

24 reviews

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny sad 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Classism, Child abuse, Murder, Medical content, Gun violence, Death, Death of parent, Violence, Slavery, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Animal cruelty, and Blood

Moderate: Cursing

redroseses's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Emotional abuse, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Pregnancy, War, Animal cruelty, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Gore, and Child abuse

hales_1243's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Excrement, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Body horror, Murder, and Terminal illness

Minor: Gun violence

livelaughomo's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Animal cruelty, and Child abuse

Moderate: Death of parent and Emotional abuse

Minor: Abandonment

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, Violence, and Animal death

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

Minor: Abandonment and Child death

lastcomment314's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.25

After what I thought was a bit of a rocky start to the series in the first installment, I think the characters really come into their own here. Apollo is still Apollo, but he's more endearing now, and is learning to think about others besides himself, even if some things about him never change. The supporting cast is also larger, and features a few more familiar faces from Riordan's previous books, which never hurts for a long-time reader like me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment, Slavery, Emotional abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Animal death, and Child abuse

tiana_king's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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

5.0

Much better

You see minor improvements of Apollo’s character by the end of the first book but he gets much better in this one. It was nice to see Leo again! I love his humor. This book was exciting and dark and everything in between. I hope this isn’t the last we see of the Waystation.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Moderate: Excrement, Gaslighting, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

actualophelia's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders and Vomit

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Abandonment

valeria_gzz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.5

4,5 because there were too many references for me. I don’t like the way Apollo talks but whatever I like these stories. I did love the character development and the way all these backstories made me cry more than any other sad book I’ve read this year (besides heartstopper 4 that one was bad(in the made me cry too much sense)). I LOVE that Meg summoned

Grover

since he was one of my favorite characters in the PJO series! 

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

Minor: Cancer and Child death