Review by finnft4 - The Tyrant's Tomb

finnft4 's review for:

The Tyrant's Tomb by Rick Riordan

4.25

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad 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

Pretty good. Great cast of characters, great setting, and pretty good stakes. It was just a good balance of everything, and I never felt like it was dragging too much. The side characters were great.

I liked the idea this book covered, with Apollo facing those he's wrong in his past (Apollo, jesus christ).

Yeah, this one was good. I don't have any strong opinions about it; just solid all around. I would say that Burning Maze had higher peaks, but also lower lows. This one was more consistently good.

Frank's fake-out death felt a little weird to me. But eh. I liked the "choosing destiny" bit, though.

If I had a nickel for every time a Percy Jackson character sacrificed themselves by voluntarily engulfing in flame, making everyone grieve, yet inexplicably surviving afterward, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

CURRENT RANKING
[1] PJO: The Last Olympian
[2] HoO: The House of Hades
[3] HoO: The Mark of Athena
[4] MCGA: The Sword of Summer
[5] PJO: The Lightning Thief
[6] ToA: The Tyrant's Tomb
[7] MCGA: The Ship of the Dead
[8] ToA: The Burning Maze
[9] PJO: The Titan's Curse
[10] MCGA: The Hammer of Thor
[11] HoO: The Son of Neptune
[12] PJO: The Battle of the Labyrinth
[13] HoO: The Lost Hero
[14] PJO: The Sea of Monsters
[15] ToA: The Dark Prophecy
[16] HoO: The Blood of Olympus

[17] ToA: The Hidden Oracle

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