Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan

30 reviews

abby_can_read'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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I had a god time reading this book. Reading from Apollo's preceptive was funny and entertaining. I liked the snarking between Meg and Apollo.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Child abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Death of parent

Minor: Vomit

achay91's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death and Death of parent

_ren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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: Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Child abuse

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Mental illness

Minor: Death of parent

anna_333's review against another edition

hopeful informative mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Death, Gaslighting, and Grief

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia, Blood, Death of parent, and Bullying

bumblemee's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

Highly entertaining! I'm not that deep into Riordans works, but I had enough knowledge about previous books to understand this one in the context of the ongoing events. I liked Apollo as the protagonist, because he is hilariously insufferable a lot of the time. On that note: It makes sense that he is obsessed with his looks, but I didn't really enjoy the unnecessary body shaming commentary that came with it. Besides that it was very fun to be in the thoughts of a god struggling to come to terms with human realities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death of parent and Body shaming

thaliareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This was a reread and the first time listening to the audiobook. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this series, but it’s turning out to be very interesting. I like briefly seeing Percy, but it was also really nice to start to meet, or rather learn more about, other side characters. It’s also nice to see Apollo really beginning to see what his children go through on the daily. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Death of parent and Child abuse

This book does still feel YA appropriate even with the content warnings.

caskraft's review against another edition

adventurous funny reflective 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: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Car accident, Grief, Death of parent, Body horror, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

wayward_sister's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted relaxing sad 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

A fast-paced beginning to a new series with a flawed hero who has more depth than it at first appears. I'm not sure what to think about the antagonists yet though. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gaslighting, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Grief

val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence and Death of parent