Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

25 reviews

leoblueish's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty and Incest

pandemonicbaby's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Fire/Fire injury

gillian_aftanas's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Confinement, Violence, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, and Abandonment

Moderate: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Death, Misogyny, Sexism, and Grief

chronicacademia's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Ableism, Fatphobia, Racism, and Slavery

kendra_taylors_version's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

blackheart's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

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

3.5

A good sequal. Very similar to the first.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, and War

finnft4's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

Another good read. Though I liked the plot of the first one a bit more

RANKING
[1] PJO: The Last Olympian
[2] HoO: The House of Hades
[3] HoO: The Mark of Athena
[4] PJO: The Lightning Thief
[5] PJO: The Titan's Curse
[6] HoO: The Son of Neptune
[7] PJO: The Battle of the Labyrinth
[8] HoO: The Lost Hero
[9] PJO: The Sea of Monsters
[10] HoO: The Blood of Olympus 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Violence

Moderate: Sexism, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Ableism

Here are some scattered thoughts: The references to The Odyssey were hilarious. I appreciated that they gave Clarisse some character depth, but some of her actions in this book just made me want to facepalm. Loved the focus on Annabeth's feelings and trauma - the Siren scene was heartbreaking. And I love Tyson. I wasn't expecting him to be, but Luke is actually a good and threatening antagonist. The concept of Kronos is still so dark for a middle grade book, but I'm definitely not complaining. This series is crazy

stwriter92'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

4.0

In the second installment of the Percy Jackson series, Percy and his friends are thrown into one of the oldest stories in Greek mythology: the retrieval of the Golden Fleece. When Percy and his friends Annabeth and Tyson (his cyclops half brother) return to Camp Half Blood, they find that have been asked to retrieve the borders of the camp have been poisoned and weakened, letting in a slew of monsters to attack the demigods. On top of this, Percy discovers that his friend Grover has been taken prisoner by the Cyclops Polyphemus in the Sea of Monsters. Determined to rescue him as well as the rest of Camp Halfblood, Percy and his friends make the perilous journey into the Sea of Monsters to save Grover and retrieve the Golden Fleece to help heal the camp's borders. 

I did find this book enjoyable, but I felt that it did not have the same urgency as the first book. The plotline was good but lacked the big stakes that the previous book had presented. However, I feel like the end of the book made things a lot more interesting! I also loved the banter between the characters. Riordan seems to have found that sweet spot of having enough banter without making it sound unnatural and forced. Percy Jackson sounds exactly how I would imagine a twelve year old boy would sound. I know that I will be watching him grow up and I cannot wait for that! I am currently listening to the next part of the series and am loving it!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying and Kidnapping

dancing_on_ur_muml0l's review against another edition

adventurous 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? No

4.5

noooo Tyson :(

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Bullying, Cursing, War, and Injury/Injury detail

dayniw's review against another edition

adventurous dark inspiring mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Kidnapping, and Injury/Injury detail