Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan

11 reviews

natashalg's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

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

3.0

I enjoyed the book and the "fall from grace" storyline, but I can't say I enjoyed it as much as the author's previous works. The characters (mainly Meg) were irritating, and as much as I love Percy, I felt like he was just a name drop and him being the "white knight" made him seem like a flat character. I felt like the entire book was exposition for the coming series, and nothing truly exciting happened until the last 3/4 of the book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death of parent

calamitywindpetal's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Vomit

em_of_swags's review against another edition

adventurous medium-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

3.75

I feel like the cast of characters was quite the downgrade from the first two series. I liked the side characters and reoccurring demigods well enough, but Apollo was so insufferable, I hope he'll have grown as a person in the second book.

Also it feels like nothing happened until the big showdown? Feels like a more solid way of storytelling than the previous books, which were like video game quests, but I don't like change so it was weird to not have a bunch of little adventures.

Still liked the book tho

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Violence, and Kidnapping

Minor: Fatphobia

achay91's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Death and Death of parent

anna_333's review against another edition

hopeful informative mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, and Gaslighting

thaliareads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

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

5.0

This was a reread and the first time listening to the audiobook. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this series, but it’s turning out to be very interesting. I like briefly seeing Percy, but it was also really nice to start to meet, or rather learn more about, other side characters. It’s also nice to see Apollo really beginning to see what his children go through on the daily. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Child abuse and Death of parent

This book does still feel YA appropriate even with the content warnings.

sadie_g'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and War

Minor: Death and Death of parent

madamenovelist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and Blood

swiftie_bookworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Gaslighting

jasmineslibraryy's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad 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? It's complicated

4.5

reread 🤲

apollo is a little annoying but he’s also funny as hell and he would love taylor swift. also WILL + NICO <3 and i forgot how much i love meg

speed run finishing the series before i get my goblin hands on the sun and the star 💫 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Child death, Cursing, Colonisation, and Pandemic/Epidemic

all the traditional percy jackson warnings