Reviews tagging 'War'

The Tyrant's Tomb by Rick Riordan

23 reviews

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Car accident, Body horror, Animal cruelty, War, Medical content, Grief, Confinement, and Death

Minor: Vomit, Torture, Murder, Infidelity, Death of parent, Suicide, Child death, Body shaming, Animal death, Addiction, and Alcohol

wiktoria_bojda's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing 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: Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, and Death

jerrysaywhaaa's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.0

This was such an action-packed book that I’m surprised it wasn’t the final chapter of the series. Are they going to up the stakes in the next one? I hope so. Being from the San Francisco Bay Area though, I felt myself very distracted with this book taking place in the bay and making sure Rick was accurate in his descriptions. Which I would say he did good not great with it. This book also had one of my biggest pet peeves though: someone surviving a heroic sacrifice, I think it cheapens the moment and makes it mean less. Also Meg felt different in this book; I don’t think I’m starting to like her, but I also don’t think I hate her anymore. I think this series has really strong character development for a lot of the characters, even the minor characters but especially the main characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, and Murder

thaliareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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? Yes

5.0

I wasn't sure how this would end up going, but I gotta say that I'm relieved that Apollo and Meg have made it as far as they have. I'm relieved that Rick decided not to put us through more pain after the last book. I'm still not sure how they're gonna fix everything in the next book, but here's to hoping it all goes well. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, Death, and Grief

While still on the darker side, this did still feel appropriate for a YA audience.

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

3.75

Ngl compared to the third book this one kind of fell flat a bit, but it was still a banger. The end of the series is drawing near. This was the transition book we needed to go from the third book to the fifth, like we don't rlly need to talk much about this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and War

Moderate: Child death and Animal cruelty

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Death of parent

nevermoregothic's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Violence, War, Child death, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Child death

betweentheshelves's review

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

4.5

I feel like we're getting to the realm of "is this really middle grade?" with this series, but it sort of makes sense. At the point these books were publishing, the original readers of Percy Jackson were much older. This book is intense, and it's not even the finale of the series yet! We've still got one more book to go!

Go into this book knowing there are some intense moments in the battle at the end of this book that'll probably keep you on the edge of your seat. Also, this whole series is (basically) a character study on Apollo, and I love getting to see how he's evolved throughout this entire quest. He's made friends, he cares about people, and it works so well for the overall arch of this particular series as well.

Curious to see how Riordan is going to end this series becuase I'm sure it's going to be with a bang!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Grief, and Bullying

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Death of parent

jasmineslibraryy's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

i consumed this book. i'm not ready to finish the series. 

APOLLO AND MEG'S RELATIONSHIP???? i love them so much. the character development has been so amazing to see omggg it was also great seeing my beloveds from camp jupiter again, even if i want to strangle frank for the heart attack moment 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and War

the_embodiment_of_chaos's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Animal cruelty, and Torture

Minor: Vomit, Domestic abuse, Acephobia/Arophobia, Death of parent, and Body shaming

brekker_by_brekker'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

4.5

“if i’m going to burn, i might as well burn bright. this is for jason.” OUCH ??????? IM ??????? SOBBING ?!??!!?!!!??????? read percy jackson they said it’ll be fun they said okay yeah then why am i crying this hard

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: War

Minor: Animal cruelty