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Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Rick Riordan

7 reviews

_forestofpages's review

adventurous challenging dark funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Phew, you can tell from the content warnings how wild the Greek Gods are. As someone who has read the Bibliotheca, this was definitely a much more entertaining and digestible way to read about the twelve (major) Gods of Greek Myth. And obviously since it is written to be family friendly, that a lot of it was watered down. 

I don't love how biased Percy is towards his father since there were several instances where what he was describing was his dad raping women, but called it 'cuddling' and hardly had anything bad to say. However, he did do that with Zeus as well which is odd since he pretty much hates the guy. (obviously, Percy is fictional and I am talking about Riordan here). 

Overall, I enjoyed this a lot and will be continuing into the Greek Heroes as told by Percy Jackson.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Violence, Domestic abuse, Body horror, and Abandonment

Moderate: Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Incest, Child death, Child abuse, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Misogyny and Homophobia

eagleshouse's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative medium-paced

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

2.75

Despite Riordan's success with the other books set in this universe, this one falls short.

Making the Greek God's stories family-friendly is a job and a half, and unfortunately, whilst this book is fun and informative, with that classic Percy Jackson flair with him as the narrator, it definitely feels tone-deaf in places with how it explains certain events.

Greek mythology at its core, is based on incest, rape, and misogyny. This book trivialises a lot of that and definitely excuses it in order to make the Gods more bearable in the main series.

Overall, this book was fun to read, despite being slightly uncomfortable in places. It probably shouldn't have been written, especially as a kids book, and could be seen as insensitive in regards to how it conveys the events.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Incest, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Sexism

Moderate: Cannibalism

Minor: Ableism, Alcohol, and Animal death

waterviolite's review

adventurous dark funny informative fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Ableism, Alcohol, Animal death, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Blood, Murder, Cannibalism, Death, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Rape, Stalking, and Violence

amutha_brightson's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia

Minor: Bullying, Cannibalism, Blood, Sexual harassment, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, and Body horror

thatbookbitch's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny informative lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal death, Pedophilia, Stalking, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Death, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, War, Misogyny, Child abuse, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Incest, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Blood, Torture, Addiction, Death of parent, Vomit, Abandonment, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, Toxic friendship, and Suicide attempt

em_davies7019's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Violence, Rape, Murder, Death, Animal death, Gaslighting, Infidelity, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Kidnapping

the_pysselfia's review

funny informative lighthearted fast-paced

4.0

i mean its good, but so much is left out, erased. like those gods were very much lgbtq, but in this?? nope. and all the rape is just called"haha forced hankyhanky" and that ruined alot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Acephobia/Arophobia, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Bullying, Child abuse, Cannibalism, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Genocide, Incest, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Stalking, Suicide, Transphobia, Vomit, and Violence