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The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan

9 reviews

building_a_bookdom's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Moderate: Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Animal death, Child death, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Cannibalism, Islamophobia, Vomit, Violence, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Homophobia

sophie42's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Grief

mcdermotte1639's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? No

5.0

Love. Love. Love. The found family is amazing. The sarcastic, witty humor is fabulous. The main characters pulled at my heartstrings and made me root for them from the first chapter. 
If I had one warning/critique, it would be that it does start off a little slow, but it makes sense, since Riordan is setting up a whole new world for us to play in. If you're feeling a little draggy in the bileginning, stick it out. I promise, it's soooo worth it!
Every series I read from Rick gets better and better!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

orchidlilly'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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Abandonment, Ableism, Emotional abuse, Grief, and Blood

Minor: Alcohol, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Sexism, Alcoholism, Car accident, Bullying, Kidnapping, Racism, Animal death, and Islamophobia

readingbooksbcwhynot123's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective 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

I loved it. Very funny but still dark book. It was sad at times but still made me laugh out loud a lot. The sarcastic remarks by Magnus are to die for. Hearth and Blitz are absolutely adorable. Samirah is an amazing character as well. I really look forward to the next book so I can finally be introduced by Sam’s sister, Alex Fierro. And as a Norse person, I found it very funny to read about my own mythology, even though our names and language was mocked, (it was funny anyway). Already starting the new book. Thank you, Rick!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Islamophobia

averyrembish's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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

Moderate: Child death, Death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Minor: Gore, War, and Islamophobia

valeria_gzz's review against another edition

adventurous funny 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? No

4.5

4,5 this was awesome and yeah it took me a while to read but I’ll blame it being a series for that. I thought I’d take a break before I read the second Magnus Chase book but I don’t think I’ll do that anymore because of the epilogue HOLY CRAP. 

Spoiler

Magnus is funny and a mama’s boy and I thought the reunion (well really first time meeting him) with his dad was really sweet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Violence

Moderate: Racism

frantic_vampire's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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? No

4.5

I really loved this one! Magnus is honestly so relatable. He’s so sarcastic, funny, and a total dork. It also helps just a little that he’s my birthday twin! And he is the quintessential Capricorn. I feel like we would get along so well. I’m pretty sure that Magnus is one of my top favorite of Riordan’s characters.

I loved that this book focused on Norse mythology. There were a few name drops that were familiar from the show Vikings, but there were also a bunch of new things that I didn’t know about Norse mythology thrown into this. It was just such a fun read. One of the other things I really liked about this book was that we got to see Annabeth again! I loved all the little nods to the other series. And the fact that Magnus was also being so salty when references were made to the other books, it just made me giggle.

All in all The Sword of Summer was just such a fun read. I can’t wait to read Magnus’s next adventure. This one is getting a solid four and a half stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Animal death, Child death, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Gaslighting and Islamophobia

Minor: Death of parent, Gaslighting, Grief, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Islamophobia

britgirlreading's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Child death, War, Violence, Medical trauma, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, and Fire/Fire injury