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The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan

47 reviews

sophie42's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: War and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief and Gun violence

nellienelson's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Grief, and Death

Minor: Sexism

onalark's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted sad tense 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: Child death, Grief, and Death

Minor: Kidnapping

johannarose's review

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Bullying, Child death, Death, War, and Blood

rokinjaguar's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

The first half felt off, kind of boring and awkward, like 3 stars, but the second half and the climax was super good and bumped the score back up to 4 stars! The writing in the climax was descriptive and compelling.
Was almost a bleh book but Riordan was able to save it :)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Grief

Minor: Alcohol and Kidnapping

finnft4's review

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense 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

Best one yet!! I'm super excited about the rest of this series; I love it a lot

RANKING
[1] PJO: The Last Olympian
[2] HoO: The House of Hades
[3] HoO: The Mark of Athena
[4] PJO: The Lightning Thief
[5] PJO: The Titan's Curse
[6] HoO: The Son of Neptune
[7] PJO: The Battle of the Labyrinth
[8] HoO: The Lost Hero
[9] PJO: The Sea of Monsters
[10] HoO: The Blood of Olympus 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Violence, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Gun violence and Sexism

This is definitely the most intense entry of the series so far. There's been fighting in the other two books, of course, but no permanent casualties. It did surprise me that two of the main characters were killed off - though I did sort of guess it would happen, since they were also introduced in this book. I barely knew Bianca or Zoe, but their deaths definitely got to me; Zoe's a bit more than Bianca's. But Nico's reaction to finding out was just heartbreaking. At this point, I feel like I'm definitely getting into the meat of the story, which is exciting. More major characters are being introduced, and everything feels so much more high-stakes now. As far as minor things go, I like the incorporation of "fatal flaws" into the concept, since they were always a huge player in classic mythology (plus Percy finding out what his is). It's a neat detail. Great series so far!

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

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Death, Murder, Violence, and Body horror

emohell's review

adventurous dark emotional 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

remains my favorite in the original series for a reason: soooooo fucking good, just top tier writing and aghhhhhhh

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Minor: Blood