Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan

4 reviews

anjasshelf's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Blood, and Child abuse

hales_1243's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Death, Vomit, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Child abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Confinement

Minor: Gun violence

foreverinastory's review against another edition

adventurous 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

The ending was so good. I love that we got to check in with so many of the heroes from the past books. I really want to reread the whole PJO universe now.

Rep: Olympian god turned mortal bisexual male MC, female side character with glasses, Black female side character, biracial (Black & Asian) male side character, Italian gay male side character, white gay male side character, Indigenous sapphic female side character, Latine female side character, side male character who uses a wheelchair. All demigod characters have ADHD and/or dyslexia.

CWs: Blood, child abuse, emotional abuse, death, injury/injury detail, kidnapping, violence. Moderate: gore. Brief: animal death. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Violence

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Animal death

sepiaparrish's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.0

i liked it bc percy and annabeth and nico and will and rachel and reyna and leo and hazel were in it. i didn't like it bc rick riordan is infuriating and incapable of taking his own writing seriously and also bad at endings. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Body shaming, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Slavery, and Torture

the child abuse is meg's relationship with nero, and we also meet other kids "adopted" by him and treated similarly. it is a main theme of the book so look out, apollo also reflects on how his relationships with the other gods could be considered abusive. the violence is riordan-typical but there's a scene where apollo "dies" and also there's a scene when a character gets her hands chopped off to teach her a lesson, which is the most graphic scene in the book i would say. i added ableism because some of what riordan says in reference to this character after the event could possibly be read that way? but i'm not sure. torture and panic attacks are mentioned very briefly, slavery is seen in the way nero runs parts of his empire and it is refered to as slavery multiple times, nico's ptsd is discussed a few times, body shaming is apollo commenting on his acne and body fat in a negative tone, homophobia is briefly mentioned at one point, and animal death is a type of monster that is killed multiple times that is a cow. also riordan-typical handling his minorities rather poorly, though i think he did better in this one than in certain other books.