Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Percy Jackson y los Dioses Griegos by Rick Riordan

9 reviews

anjasshelf's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

natashalg's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

A fun read for those who would like to have more background on the 12 main Greek gods told from Percy's point of view and explanation of their myths. It was entertaining, and I actually learned something!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Gore, Misogyny, Sexism, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, and War

_forestofpages's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark funny sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Phew, you can tell from the content warnings how wild the Greek Gods are. As someone who has read the Bibliotheca, this was definitely a much more entertaining and digestible way to read about the twelve (major) Gods of Greek Myth. And obviously since it is written to be family friendly, that a lot of it was watered down. 

I don't love how biased Percy is towards his father since there were several instances where what he was describing was his dad raping women, but called it 'cuddling' and hardly had anything bad to say. However, he did do that with Zeus as well which is odd since he pretty much hates the guy. (obviously, Percy is fictional and I am talking about Riordan here). 

Overall, I enjoyed this a lot and will be continuing into the Greek Heroes as told by Percy Jackson.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Violence, Abandonment, and War

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, and Incest

Minor: Homophobia and Misogyny

eagleshouse's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Despite Riordan's success with the other books set in this universe, this one falls short.

Making the Greek God's stories family-friendly is a job and a half, and unfortunately, whilst this book is fun and informative, with that classic Percy Jackson flair with him as the narrator, it definitely feels tone-deaf in places with how it explains certain events.

Greek mythology at its core, is based on incest, rape, and misogyny. This book trivialises a lot of that and definitely excuses it in order to make the Gods more bearable in the main series.

Overall, this book was fun to read, despite being slightly uncomfortable in places. It probably shouldn't have been written, especially as a kids book, and could be seen as insensitive in regards to how it conveys the events.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, and Alcohol

waterviolite's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Rape, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Alcohol

amutha_brightson's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

thatbookbitch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Stalking, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Emotional abuse, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

em_davies7019's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Rape, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

the_pysselfia's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

i mean its good, but so much is left out, erased. like those gods were very much lgbtq, but in this?? nope. and all the rape is just called"haha forced hankyhanky" and that ruined alot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Incest, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Vomit, Cannibalism, Stalking, Acephobia/Arophobia, Murder, Pregnancy, Lesbophobia, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation