![]() ![]() ![]() I preferred the sassy BMW-stealing teenager to this little goody-two-shoes who everyone now thinks is perfect. I’ve spent the entire series loving this gal only for Piper to be just another way for Rick Riordan to scream, “Follow your hearts, kids!” She changed a lot in this book, and not for the better. And that’s another thing! Piper tells Reyna at the end of the book about how there’s a person out there for her, which wouldn’t be bad if it weren’t for the fact that Piper’s dating the guy Reyna used to like. Eight: So Gaea was that hard to beat, huh? Gee, wow, I’d have thought that a baddie who made Kronos look like a weakling would take more than just three pages to beat and Piper saying, “SLEEP.” Nine: The prophecy? The one that the whole series was based off? The book seems to say, “What prophecy?” Everything felt convenient from the whole “choice you won’t be able to make” which ended up being just a little throwaway line from Frank to Percy to the fact that Jason never apologized for leading Reyna on. Seven: Piper and Jason are in love for literally no reason other than for being in love. So why did I read the last two books in the series? The answer is simple: I needed closure. Rick Riordan waited until book nine to introduce Nico’s “crush”. ![]() It shows that they have guts and that they aren’t waiting to have a huge fandom before they’re brave enough to show how they see things. And for the record, before some of y’all start shouting, “She’s homophobic!” Let me tell you, I respect authors who put their views on the world into their first book of a series. When I was ten, I thought boys were gross! I thought romance of any kind was disgusting! And I was sure as heck not mature enough to be reading about gay characters and their crushes. ![]() I get that Rick Riordan had other plans (dumb ones) for Nico, but seriously? There was tons of little mentions about how much they opened up around one another and needed each other and then to have Nico and Reyna just go their separate ways? Come on! Unbelievable! Six: Nico being gay does nothing to further the story other than for Disney and Rick Riordan to push their agenda onto kids who aren’t ready for these kinds of discussions, These are books directed at ten year olds. Five: Nico and Reyna should have gotten together. ‘Cause a person with such a traumatic backstory would never think of it again after sharing it to one person. Four: Reyna’s past was discussed then dismissed in a manner of pages, then never spoke of again. Now, I really enjoyed Nico’s and Reyna’s PoVs, but… the book would have been better if Rick Riordan had chosen one of the two and substituted the other one for either Frank or Hazel, then substituted Jason for Percy or Annabeth. Three: It feels weird that Rick Riordan created seven main characters, (Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Leo, Hazel, and Frank) and then only used three of them plus Reyna and Nico in the last book. And Percy’s wimpy little explanation for why he let himself be poisoned might be one of the worst excuses of all time. Uh, excuse me? Yeah, that’s so believable. Two: Jason saves Percy’s life at the bottom of the ocean. He’s boring and he’s a goody-two-shoes, and those two attributes are NOT a good combination. One: While I loved Reyna’s, Leo’s, Piper’s, and Nico’s PoVs, I couldn’t stand Jason’s, in this book or in the others. I’m just gonna start listing them in a random order as they come to me. After finishing this book, the only thing I could think was, “Well… that was disappointing.” On So. ![]()
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