Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan

23 reviews

brekker_by_brekker's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

4.75

i’m sobbing so hard rn jfc that HURT

JASON😭😭😭😭😭

‘this, i thought, was being human. standing on the tarmac, watching mortals load the body of a friend and hero into the cargo hold, knowing he would never be coming back. saying goodbye to a grieving woman who had done everything to help us, and knowing you could never repay her, never compensate her for all that she’d lost.’ BRO

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Grief

mengzhenreads'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

This for me was a huge changing point in the series, as this is the book where it all actually gets real. Like damn, this is SERIOUS.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Minor: Body shaming

the_embodiment_of_chaos's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Child abuse, Torture, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming

anjasshelf's review against another edition

adventurous funny sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Self harm, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Dysphoria

not_asha01's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, and War

hales_1243's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful sad medium-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: Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Self harm, Torture, Excrement, Vomit, and Death of parent

Minor: Confinement

building_a_bookdom's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Torture, Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Fatphobia, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Murder

Mutilation/losing body parts

finnft4's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted

• 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

4.25

BRO. ALRIGHT. ToA has officially redeemed itself.

Non-spoiler stuff first lmao. This is the first book where I actually like Apollo and Meg as characters and am not consistently annoyed by their appearances. I'm really liking Apollo's arc; it no longer feels like a half-baked Kuzco. The lines where Apollo starts to doubt his entire identity as a god while he's being reduced to basically nothing are... man, they're good. It doesn't feel as rushed anymore, and it feels honest. Meg's whole arc with Nero and shit is also very good. Piper and Jason, who I didn't like in the past, are... better now. Not great, but this book gave them a bit more depth, which I appreciated. Grover continues to be one of my favorite characters. This is the first ToA book where I actually cared about the characters and what happened to them.

And there are STAKES NOW - one of the bigger improvements between this one and the other two books (which still had stakes but weren't very investing). This book was so fucking intense. Almost at House of Hades level with the amount of pain going on. I'm still in a bit of shock.

SO MANY GOOD LINES TOO. I'M SHAKING.

Spoilers below. 

Alright, to be honest, I was already spoiled on Jason's death before reading this book. And I was mostly indifferent to the news. Oh wow, this character that I don't care that much about dies? I'm... so sad. But I'm surprised by how much it got to me. The death itself was more "OH SHIT" than anything, but the characters' reactions and the time processing afterward were heart-wrenching. The way Jason went out though was kind of stupid. Like, my guy survived getting impaled in Blood of Olympus, and this is how he dies? Sheesh... No complaints other than my guy was nerfed.

 

I'm actually looking forward to the next book (previously I saw the ToA books as obstacles in between MCGA lmfao)

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 Burning Maze
[7] PJO: The Titan's Curse
[8] MCGA: The Hammer of Thor
[9] HoO: The Son of Neptune
[10] PJO: The Battle of the Labyrinth
[11] HoO: The Lost Hero
[12] PJO: The Sea of Monsters
[13] ToA: The Dark Prophecy
[14] HoO: The Blood of Olympus

[15] ToA: The Hidden Oracle 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Torture, Suicide attempt, and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse, Blood, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

rakkaussipsi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Child abuse

valeria_gzz's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective 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

5.0

I think this is my favorite Trials of Apollo book

even though I didn’t like that Jason died

. You can tell Apollo’s views have changed A LOT in this book, and just the way it was written was great. Apollo was less annoying, and the topics in this book were more mature but still accessible. I really really loved this book like so so much this is a TRUE five star book, not just a ‘it’s five stars because it’s a Percy Jackson related book’ five stars. Also Grover was back and I love Grover

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Body shaming, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, and Gaslighting