Reviews tagging 'Child abuse'

The Trials of Apollo: The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan

23 reviews

natashalg's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny sad fast-paced

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

4.0

A 5 star book, but I'm subtracting one star for the heartbreak I feel :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide attempt and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

abby_can_read'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

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This was a good book. It was wonderful to see some of the characters again. With Grover, I know there will be smiles and laughs. I used several tissues. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Body shaming and Gaslighting

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Self harm, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

sadie_g'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

Really felt like I was enjoying the characters and their dynamics a lot more in this book, and that Lester was really starting to understand what it means to be a human. 

So glad to see Piper, Grover and Jason again in this book!!

I knew Jason died in this series but I didn’t realize it was this book, and it hurt so much :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Violence

Minor: Body shaming and Child abuse

wiktoria_bojda's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Blood, and War

Minor: Body shaming

rafacolog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, and Violence

sting4780's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Death

Moderate: Self harm, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

betweentheshelves'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

4.5

First of all, what the hell Rick Riordan?? Pulling a stunt like that in the middle of a series nonetheless. I knew it was coming because there's a spoiler in the summary for [book:The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure|63028719] (thanks for that, by the way), but I didn't realize it was going to come so soon in the series. 

Anyway, this might be the best in the series so far because while the stakes were risen in the first two books, I feel like they're pretty high by the end of this one. Things keep piling up and it will eventually be up to Apollo to set everything right. There's also some great character development there, as we've seen him evolve throughout all of the books thus far. Some great emotional development, actually. Thoroughly enjoying that and Apollo's narration still.

We'll see how the next two books go, I guess!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, and Violence

Minor: Body shaming

nevermoregothic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny lighthearted 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, and Death

Moderate: Torture, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Child abuse, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting

jasmineslibraryy's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-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

it's the middle of the night and i can't stop crying ... onto book 4?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse and War

Minor: Abandonment