Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

The Tyrant's Tomb by Rick Riordan

17 reviews

mengzhenreads'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

3.75

Ngl compared to the third book this one kind of fell flat a bit, but it was still a banger. The end of the series is drawing near. This was the transition book we needed to go from the third book to the fifth, like we don't rlly need to talk much about this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, and War

Moderate: Child death and Animal cruelty

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Death of parent

nevermoregothic's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Violence, War, Child death, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Child death

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

I feel like we're getting to the realm of "is this really middle grade?" with this series, but it sort of makes sense. At the point these books were publishing, the original readers of Percy Jackson were much older. This book is intense, and it's not even the finale of the series yet! We've still got one more book to go!

Go into this book knowing there are some intense moments in the battle at the end of this book that'll probably keep you on the edge of your seat. Also, this whole series is (basically) a character study on Apollo, and I love getting to see how he's evolved throughout this entire quest. He's made friends, he cares about people, and it works so well for the overall arch of this particular series as well.

Curious to see how Riordan is going to end this series becuase I'm sure it's going to be with a bang!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Grief, and Bullying

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Death of parent

the_embodiment_of_chaos's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Animal cruelty, and Torture

Minor: Vomit, Domestic abuse, Acephobia/Arophobia, Death of parent, and Body shaming

brekker_by_brekker'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

Spoiler

“if i’m going to burn, i might as well burn bright. this is for jason.” OUCH ??????? IM ??????? SOBBING ?!??!!?!!!??????? read percy jackson they said it’ll be fun they said okay yeah then why am i crying this hard

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: War

Minor: Animal cruelty

hales_1243's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Child death, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Death, Violence, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Confinement, Vomit, Body horror, and Bullying

Minor: Slavery, Fatphobia, and Alcohol

anjasshelf's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Car accident, Blood, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

building_a_bookdom's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore, Murder, Bullying, Child death, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, War, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Genocide, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

Minor: Cursing, Child abuse, Death, Gaslighting, Genocide, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, War, Physical abuse, and Vomit

saucy_bookdragon's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective 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

Giving this five stars not because it's perfect but because it had me feeling things I haven't felt since I first read PJO and HoO here are my thoughts:

Spoiler

-Rick Riordan said while writing this series "no I will not feed Jason stans but I WILL feed the stans of his ex-girlfriends"
-Reyna my girl you were done RIGHT in this book
-the fact that both Reyna and Piper are heavily implied to be queer (and Riordan has said that Reyna is ace and that very much shows in this) and both of them are Jason's exes has SUCH Legend of Korra energy
-Frank's survival did not make sense to me, I get it thematically but it feels like a HUGE cop out
-that said a part of me broke when I thought he'd died
-the entire Harpocrates sequence rewired my brain
-Apollo has become deeply existential and I'm living for his arc and it's making me question what it means to be human
-Lavinia my beloved
-this is one of those middle grade books that is a little too fucked up for kids but has the ability to change the trajectory of their life, which are the best genre of books btw
-the villain is a walking black skeleton with purple evil smoke coming out of him and a zombie army and that's pretty metal
-obsessed with when the fleet blew up and Apollo was all like "it can't just be Lavinia and a few dryads and fauns" and then that is in fact exactly what happened

I also love how queer this series has been! There's several queer characters in each book including Apollo himself who regularly gets to express his feelings about men and women. It all feels very natural and as a queer person who found escapism in Percy Jackson as a teenager, it's nice to see other queer people in this world and to think I'd still fit right into it!

TWs: self sacrifice, death, gore including zombies, grief, animal cruelty

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Medical content, Suicide, Death, and Grief

coyotes_tiptoe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Death