Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Daughter of the Deep by Rick Riordan

21 reviews

glen3's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Mass/school shootings, and Death of parent

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Medical content, Colonisation, and Classism

eni_iilorak's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Violence, Medical content, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Colonisation

mandkips's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Violence, and Blood

Minor: Racism, Medical content, and Colonisation

blingping's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted relaxing 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

This book, man. It was a full tidal wave of childhood that hit me right where it hurts. I was so scared going in that I wouldn't enjoy it anymore, that I was too old for Rick's writing, but this is the first book I've genuinely enjoyed in a long, long time. I'm so sad it's over, I'm fully just sobbing as I'm writing this. Thank you so much, Rick. I owe you my whole entire childhood.  (Also, I love that this is literally just published fanfiction).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, and Kidnapping

Minor: Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

belleanndthebook's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Gun violence, Medical content, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

an entire school is bombed, and a lot of the book focuses on the main characters' grief for people they knew and for not having been there

tiannakelly's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring lighthearted 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? No

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, and Death of parent

ravenclaw_percabeth's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted relaxing 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Terminal illness, and Grief

Minor: Ableism, Violence, Medical content, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

idkwhatimdoingg's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

The representation in this book was quite good. I especially liked that Ana's periods and cramps were expressed in her narration without making a big deal about it; it really shows that it's a normal part of life. However, towards the end something was mentioned about blue eyes and if Riordan meant that Ana or her family had blue eyes I would be disappointed because it feels awkward to have the south asian main character have blue eyes; as if it's being used to make their appearance more 'interesting' than brown hair and brown eyes. As I'm not sure about this, I haven't let it affect my rating.

The plot was interesting and easy to follow despite the fact that I haven't read or watched 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Some things felt unrealistic, but i'll let it slide because it is a middle grade book. Something I can't negotiate is the writing. At times it felt very monotone, as if I was being told what was happening rather than being shown (see: the 'show don't tell' rule), and the dialogue sometimes felt awkward – do people really talk like that? It was very different to the more natural narration in Percy Jackson and other books by Riordan, which was unfortunate. Still, the action scenes were well written and Ana's perspective was well written.

Overall, I would definitely recommend this book! Bear in mind that it deals with grief and death so I would recommend it for readers 13+.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Medical content

Minor: Ableism, Violence, Grief, and Death of parent

kbairbooks's review against another edition

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

2.75

I had a really hard time getting into this. Honestly the last 80 pages were nice but the rest of the book was so boring and so bland and even the gasp in shock factor moments didn’t capture me enough to keep reading like I would read the gasp moment then set the book down because I simply did not care. This book did not feel like a Rick book to me and it was a bit sad but I didn’t wanna DNF it I wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt. But I’ve finished it now annnnnd that’s that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: War

Minor: Vomit

scarlettskyes's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful informative lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Bullying, Mental illness, and Medical content