Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan

9 reviews

theintrovertsbooks's review

adventurous emotional funny fast-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: Body horror, Grief, Blood, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Violence, Toxic relationship, and Cursing

Minor: Death of parent, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, War, Self harm, Medical content, Vomit, Child death, Infidelity, Body shaming, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Child abuse, Gore, Kidnapping, and Murder

turtleycool'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: Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

jacob_dion's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• 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: Death, Torture, Violence, and Toxic relationship

broccoli_j's review

adventurous funny 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

I loved this ending for the series. 

Nero is basically Trump, everyone is a little gay and there is no character, who doesn’t need therapy!

Highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, Child abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Homophobia and Toxic relationship

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense 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

4.25

(spoiler review) Okay, I think maybe the reason I wasn't liking this series was because Rick did too good of a job making Apollo annoying and self absorbed and ridiculous. I did quite enjoy this book and I liked how it wrapped up and I liked Meg's confident transformation, I liked Lou, I liked that they are trying to rehabilitate Nero's orphans, I liked Apollo's mental, and emotional growth. I also like the additions of Nico and Will and I'm very excited to see their book. It's finally time for Nico to shine. OH, also I like how everything wrapped up really well, all the loose ends tied up in a nice pretty bow, and New York did not explode! Woo

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

brink03'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? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Emotional abuse

autistic_dragon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful tense medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Toxic relationship, Medical content, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Grief

herk's review against another edition

adventurous 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Blood, Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Violence

rachelditty's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful inspiring lighthearted tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is such a fantastic wrap-up, not only to the Trials of Apollo series, but to the Camp Half-Blood series as well.

This final book really hammered down on the importance of character development, of heart, of breaking cycles of abuse, and of being present in moments that will stick with you for your entire existence. It's not very often you absorb a piece of media that leaves you feeling both ecstatic and sad at the same time, feeling so bittersweet. But this final installment really did it for me. Apollo was already my favorite of the Olympian Gods, but my love for him has raised exponentially after this series. Well done, Riordan, really well done.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Medical content, Toxic relationship, and Violence