Both Uses of
malicious
in
The Son of Neptune
- Its dreams were so malicious, so fitful, that Hazel felt herself losing her grip on reality.†
Chpt 17
- She remembered the cave in Resurrection Bay where she'd worked to raise Alcyoneus—the oppressive sense of malice and the constant boom, boom, boom, like Gaea's heartbeat.
Chpt 43 *malice = evil that seemed threatening
Definition:
wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil