Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan

24 reviews

_ren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Grief, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Death, Confinement, Murder, Gaslighting, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Body shaming, Trafficking, Torture, and Panic attacks/disorders

Moderate: Vomit, Gun violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, and Alcohol

ceeess's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious 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

4.5

Good job dealing with trauma and a kid dealing with being gaslit. I'm intrigued.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Kidnapping, Gaslighting, Fatphobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Animal death

Minor: Excrement, Gore, and Medical content

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

rafacolog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Emotional abuse, Death, and Child abuse

wayward_sister's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional lighthearted mysterious 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

4.5

Even better than part one. It gets much darker than I would have expected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Slavery, Violence, Murder, Child abuse, and Animal cruelty

Moderate: Vomit

sting4780's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical content, Animal death, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, and Child abuse

betweentheshelves'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

Apollo is seriously such a fun narrator. In general, I think Riordan is just great at injecting humor into these books, no matter who's narrating the story. But he's really been nailing it in this series so far, balancing the humor with the darker things that are happening in the overall arc of the story. Those memories we get of Meg's towards the end? Oof. Definitely adds to her character development, though!

Since this is the third series set in this Greek/Roman mythology world, I'm enjoying that we're getting to see a bunch of other characters from previous books. It's like a fun little scavenger hunt, seeing who get to see next. I'm always a fan of interconnected books like this anyway, especially since this just keeps building on what we already know.

Can't wait to see what adventures are in store next for Apollo!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, and Violence

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

Minor: Abandonment, Death, and Child death

littleflowerfairy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Murder, Animal cruelty, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, and Child death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Minor: Grief, Confinement, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Toxic relationship is in reference to a familial relationship. Also, in case there's anyone else out there that also gets freaked out by foreign objects going into someone's facial orifices,

there is a scene toward the end of the book where spectral bees are flying into Meg's nose, mouth, ears and tear ducts. Then a bit later in the chapter, they go into Apollo, and he says he can feel them ricocheting around his respiratory system. Meg's description is only one sentence, while Apollo's is few more lines.

marenm's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.0

as an avid enjoyer of the percy jackson and the olympians series, i’ve found ToA to be very juvenile. i get its middle grade but so is olympians and it never felt so…cringe? there’s just some pretty stupid jokes in there that makes it hard to get through. i also think the names of their monsters tend to be much more complicated than the og series and it makes it hard to keep straight. i did find some of the backstories pretty interesting and there were definitely some charming moments in the book. overall, the book didn’t make a super large impression on me and i probably won’t be thinking about it in the future. i bought the whole series already though so i will be continuing :) 
3/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Body shaming, and War

brekker_by_brekker's review against another edition

adventurous 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: Violence, Animal cruelty, and Animal death

Moderate: Death, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse