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The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

10 reviews

elliott_the_clementine's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Child death

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: War and Animal cruelty

rchatterjee188's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Confinement, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Kidnapping, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, Violence, War, Abandonment, and Child abuse

__helena__'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

Minor: Animal cruelty and Grief

everesto's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal cruelty, War, and Alcohol

sxndaze'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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Animal cruelty

elle_honeyx's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Gun violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Animal death

Minor: Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Car accident, Blood, and Death of parent

kathrynleereads's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.25

Honestly, every time I've read The Titan's Curse, I've thought I was going to spend the whole thing missing Annabeth, and then I've been surprised by how much I grew to love the new characters.

Zoe Nightshade takes the prize for best character in this book (in my opinion). Spunky, bold, and strong. What more could you ask for? 

She's even confident enough to admit when she's wrong (although it may take a while). Personally, I don't think anyone other than Zoe and Thalia could have filled Annabeth's shoes for the duration of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Grief, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Animal cruelty and Blood

nytephoenyx's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

3.5

The Percy Jackson books are extremely formulaic bit putting that predictability aside this was a good listen. It was not as interesting or exciting as some of the others and I do feel both Zoey Nightshade and Thalia were throw-away characters (unpopular opinion?) but altogether I enjoyed it.

There’s something about a good hook and likeable characters that gets cozy. Percy Jackson does that well.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Kidnapping, and Death

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Grief, and War

rinku's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

3.5

 With 3.5 stars, The Titan’s Curse is my favorite Percy Jackson novel until now. We’re introduced to many great characters here and the story just gets a bit more serious while still taking itself not too seriously, leading to many funny moments. 

This time, it’s not Grover who got kidnapped, but Annabeth and later

Artemis

by Luke and his followers. On their travel to rescue them, Percy and Grover get the support of many new characters. The pace is not as fast as in the previous novels, but we still have the artificial time pressure which is more of a running gag than a cliché now. But one cliché that actually did annoy me was the

”characters being secretly related to each other”-cliché

which always makes me roll my eyes. 

Compared to the previous books though, I really liked the settings, like the snowier settings at the beginning or the Hoover Dam – even though I always picture it like it looks in <i>Fallout New Vegas</i> lmao. I also always enjoy it when the gods are undercover in the human world and helping our heroes. The finale was so amazing as well:

Thalia seemingly killing Luke was such an epic moment, even though he’s not really dead. Them defeating Atlas was so amazing as well, just like Annabeth’s dad saving the day. In contrast, Zoe’s death was so sad and not so emotionless like Bianca’s death, where I first thought it would the same thing like with Tyson

. 

I noticed that there’s not one character I dislike since they’re all written so amazingly. I still love our main cast, and additionally really like Apollo and Ares. With Nico, Bianca, Thalia, and the huntresses, we get a great addition of the cast, even though

it’s a bit sad that Bianca, Thalia, and Zoe are all gone at the end. They were all such great strong female characters and I wished they would’ve stayed for longer. I also feel so sorry for Nico and wonder what will happen next now that we know that he’s Hades son

. 

With The Titan’s Curse, I definitely got more invested in the <i>Percy Jackson</i> series and its character. There are quite a few unresolved conflicts that make me curious how the series will continue. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Violence, Animal cruelty, and Kidnapping

Minor: Grief, Gun violence, and War

flaminghotchertos's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Graphic: War, Death, Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Violence, Blood, Child death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, and Alcohol