The Blood of Olympus: Heroes of Olympus Book 5

It took a minute to get into this book. Had nice character development for some of the people that we didn't know a lot about from the previous books. Was interesting to see the Greeks and Romans finally unite as a whole. Another reviewer noted that the final battle scene seemed a bit

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anti-climactic which I would have to agree. The book was so long and then the final battle took just a few pages. But that seems to be the way of the gods in Riordan's books.

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A fairly strong ending, and I've got to give at least a decent rating to an installment that includes a couple appearances, even if cameos, by Clarisse (my Number One XXXOOO, And you got a problem with that, loser? You want I rearrange your dental work for you?). The problem with the ending was,

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Getting There! There was just too much action-episode upon action-episode one right after the other in a been-there-seen-that sense; and also, Riordan's humor is starting to get a bit tired — corny, and written in such a way that it sometimes breaks the Fourth Wall.

But for the sake of the strong ending (the last fifty-to-a-hundred pages or so) and the cameos from Clarisse, I'll give this one a perhaps generous 3½***.

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The Heros Of Olympus Series has come to a close with the series finale, The Blood of Olympus. Many readers around the world have been awaiting this book for months, as it not only ends the Heros Of Olympus series, but also is the last time that Percy Jackson, the main protagonist, is featured in

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one of Rick Riordan’s books. Thankfully, Riordan did not disappoint.
This wonderful conclusion to the series tied up many loose ends as it look you on an adventure with the main characters. It followed the characters as they traveled from a Roman camp for demigods to a Greek camp for demigods, trying to bring the two camps together to fight their rivals.
I loved this book, not only because it had an interesting and fast-paced plot, but also because of the author’s writing style. Throughout the series, Riordan wrote the books so that each chapter focused on different characters, giving the reader more of an insight to each character’s struggles. However, in this book, he introduced even more character’s perspectives, although he had to cut back on some of the old ones. While I wish he had done more chapters on some of the old characters, I am also glad for the new perspectives from the characters he added. It focuses more on some of the minor characters from the earlier books. I like this because it really intertwines the plots of all the books, instead of each book being strictly one conflict, then moving on.
I recommend this book to kids in the higher grades of elementary school all the way to kids in their early years of high school. I think it is fun to grow with this series, all the way from the Percy Jackson books to the stunning end of the demigod adventures. I will miss this series, and I will miss the characters and places. However, overall I am glad that the book had an ending that was worthy of the chronicles that began in 2005 with The Lightning Thief. I would recommend this book to everyone who likes fast-paced adventures.

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The seven demigods of prophecy have come a long way over the course of the past four books. Now, as they travel through Greece to the final conflict, they fight battles both internal and external as they contemplate what certain lines of the prophecy may mean. Meanwhile, Nico, Reyna, and Coach

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Hedge struggle to transport the Athena Parthenos back to Camp Half-Blood in time to avert a deadly conflict between the Greek and Roman demigods. If they don't make it back in time, the consequences could be devastating. As the final battle looms, the fates of all of the characters in the story are far from certain.

This book, like its predecessors, is satisfyingly fast-paced and action-filled. All of the major plot points are wrapped up, though Riordan does leave a few tantalizing threads dangling, offering hope for perhaps a few more short stories featuring certain intriguing characters. I have just a minor criticism of this book, and since it constitutes a spoiler, I'll mask it here: This may seem like a strange criticism, but nobody important died in the big final battle (unless you count Octavian, who had been set up as a minor villain since the first book). Despite two major conflicts raging, all seven (or nine, or ten if you want to count Nico, Reyna, and Coach Hedge) major characters lived. Which is great, but I honestly expected that at least one of the Seven would die in the last battle. In fact, though this series looks and feels more young adult (as opposed to juvenile) than the original Percy Jackson series, Riordan killed off more named characters in that series than in this one, by my count. It just feels a little cheap, especially in comparison with other major series for children and young adults. Everybody lives, everybody gets a love interest, nobody has to deal with consequences for an adventure of the scope of the one they've just had. Am I being a curmudgeon? If so, remember that I said this was a minor criticism -- I still enjoyed the series, and will probably enjoy more than one reread of it in the future.

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This book was, I can't even think of a word to describe it! I am obsessed with this book. It is awesome. I couldn't wait to get it and it lived up to everything I was waiting for. Its exciting, fun and hilarious. A must read.

This was the final book in the Heroes of Olympus series. I know a lot of people are steadfast fans of this series. While I have enjoyed it, I haven't liked it as much as the Percy Jackson books.

I listened to this on audiobook and the narrator does a decent job. There are a ton of different voices

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to narrate for, so it is a challenging book to narrate. The narrator does a pretty good job of making all the characters sound different.

One group of our heroes needs to get the Athena Parthenos to Camp Halfblood. The other need to go east in the Argo II. Everything needs to be fixed before the Feast of Spes, when Gaea plans to sacrifice two demi-Gods and fully awaken. Gaea can’t be allowed to awaken or it will mean the end of the Earth as we know it.

I do enjoy that Riordan is exploring the more obscure mythology of Gaea and the Titans. There is a lot of action and the plot moves at a fairly decent clip.

However there are a lot of problems with this book, and the whole series in general. These books are incredibly formulaic; that is to say they use the same plots over and over again. There's always a time limit, our heroes always fight increasingly harder enemies that lead to a final battle. This book was no different. It's kind of like a video game in book format except but not as interesting.

The Gods/Titans/Gaea are always really stupid and make predictable and bad decisions...this never varies from book to book. The action is very slapstick to the point of being just downright silly. I love humor in my books, but most of the fight scenes are just roll your eyes silly. The final battle with Gaea was incredibly anti-climatic too.

Then the characters, holy cow there are just so many of them. I have trouble engaging with any of them because there are just a million of them. Between all the different Giants, Gods, and Demi-Gods it is tough to keep track of it all. This book does focus more on Nico and Reina, so we do hear from them more than the others.

All the above being said, I still did enjoy the conclusion (mostly I enjoy the fact that this series is finally over). Unfortunately there are still a lot of loose ends which lead me to believe that there is yet another spin off series in the works (which I will not be reading).

Overall an okay conclusion to this series. The series is a bit ADD and reads more like a video game than a book at time. There are tons of characters to keep track off and the story is predictable and very similar in plot to every other book in the series. I think middle grade readers who like somewhat silly adventure fantasy books will enjoy this book. I think adults will find the plot too repetitive.

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With so many battles we fought together. Hardships we both endured. Laughters we shared. Those are precious to me. I'm very happy to know these amazing demigods: Percy, Annabeth, Nico, Leo, Hazel, Frank, Piper, Jason, Reyna, and all those roman/greek demigods. You're too many to mention but I know

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you know how awesome you guys are.

I'm really crying right now because I'm happy and sad. I still remember the very first day I met Percy and Grover at Yancy Academy. It was the 17th day of April. The very first day I read and finished a book. These two series, are really the reason why I'm still reading till this day. Now, the adventure has officially comes to an end. Oh gods I'm crying again.

Thank you Uncle Rick, for allowing us to spend our days and nights at Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter. For letting us to go aboard the Argo II. It was a tough journey. Retrieving the freaking lightning bolt, crossing the sea of monsters, seing your friends die, escaping the labyrinth, winning a war against titans, saving a goddess, fighting a war again, following the mark of Athena, surviving in tartarus, and defeating the earth goddess.

Okay. That's enough. Let us now talk about the book. Obviously the The Blood of Olympus has only 516 pages which is quite few compare to the preceding books with 553, 574, or 583 pages. And this is a final book, probably the last time you'll see your favorite characters. So I was expecting and craving to see more of the story. But the pacing was just so fast especially with the fighting scene. I wish it was longer.

Having Nico's and Reyna's POVs is surely a yes yes yes to some especially to me. Because we have to understand the series has lots of characters and they need to be seen. And I think they were given enough attention in this book. And It's really good to see how they feel and what they think in their own perspectives.

And also what I really like about the finale is the things that I wanted to see (probably same with the other readers) really happened. And I'm glad about it.

If you're half-way or you've finished already reading this book. It can be understood that there's no more Perco/Percico 3. So sad. But I'm not going to change my username ever. If it's WilCo now. Then WilCo lives!!

Anyway, this is a great book. Hope you finished the whole series.

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The Blood of Olympus is the fifth book in the heroes of olympus series. At this point in the series Gaea is planning on waking on August 1st. Jason, Leo, Piper, Percy, Annabeth, Hazel, and Frank are trying to stop that. They embark on a journey on the Argo II(2) to Athens. While Nico, Coach Hedge,

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and Reyna embark on an adventure back to Camp Half Blood to prevent a war between Camp Half Blood, and Camp Jupiter. To stop that they bring the Athena Parthenos with them. When Gaea wakes Leo has a plan that nobody knows about except some of the gods. Leo's friends are worried about him. Leo didn't let that stop him.

My opinion of this book is that there should be a 6th book. Or another series to add onto the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series. This book ended in a cliff-hanger that I like, but I don't like cliff-hangers all to much. The book was good, and I would mention this book to other people. Everybody likes Rick Riordan's books that he writes. I just want him to write a 6th book. I will be very excited if he does. If he doesn't I will be devistated. That is my opinion of The Blood of Olympus. I hope everybody enjoys this review, and I hope everybody reads this book.

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Newbies Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Leo Valdez go on a quest to find an imprisoned Hera. Hera the mean girl of the gods. Hera the hater of all Zeus kids oops sorry, in this case Juno the bitter wife of Jupiter...
Thoughts and whatnot:
I LOVE RICK RIORDAN but what else can you expect?
No one can deny me

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some Percy Jackson spin-offs
Even though Percy only appeared via mention I still found that he was my favorite character.
Maybe I should get started on the other characters though….Jason: I liked him better by the end. At first he was stuck up and uptight, even though he’s not described this way I really felt that flare come from him. I tend to have this sixth sense about the type of person an individual can secretly be and that’s the vibe I got from him when they started the quest. It drove me nuts from time to time but he was okay. Leo: MY NEW FAVE. This kid was hilarious and just as smart mouthed as Percy but insecure. He’s definitely got a lot of growing up to do but that’s just the best part of his potential. Piper: ….It’s so hard to be positive because she’s just as frustrating as any daughter of Aphrodite would be. Riordan tried to make her different by having her be this tomboyish love goddess daughter but that’s what made her more unique and alluring instead of her beauty. Don’t get me wrong, I liked her but she was a little too much for me when it came to obvious pairing between Jason and Piper. We get it Pipes you and Jason have the most potential but do you have to drag it out every three chapters??? (I may be exagerating a bit…maybe)
It dragged on a bit in the begining of the quest but after that long pause I took I was sucked in. And with the addition of Roman mythology meshed into the Greek part of the story was brilliant. I never understood the similarities until I read this book but even if it's not exactly how Riordan painted it then it still makes sense.

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This thrilling end to the Heroes of Olympus is both suspenseful as it is funny. The heroes, Jason, Percy, Annabeth, Leo, Piper, Hazel and Frank are heading to the original Mt. Olympus in Greece to stop Gaia from rising.On the way they stop at Ithaca to crash a party in Gaia's favor. Jason, Piper

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and Annabeth disguise themselves and sneak in. After the party atendees almost kill them they bring back news to their ship the Argo II. Gaia has both sea routs to Olympus blockes off by hordes of monsters and that Gaia is actually going to rise in the Parthenon. They change course and start heading towards Athens. Meanwhile the other group of heroes, Nico, Reyna and Coach Hedge are traveling back to Camp Half-Blood with the Athena Parthenos to stop the war betwween the Greek and Roman demigods. After a short trip to Pompeii which almost got thm killed by Pompeii's ghosts, they travelled to Reyna's hometown which brings back bad memories for her. As the Argo II is sailing/flying to Athens they have to stop along the way at the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis to get the recipe for the cure of. They get there and Apollo begrudginly gave them the recipe but told them to go his son, the god of doctors, to make it. Back to Nico and his group. After being captured by the Amazons and the Hunters of Artemis they are forced to flee when Orion, the hunter sent to stop them, shows up and they have to shadow-travel to Camp Half-Blood jsut before the fight broke out. After getting the physician's cure, the cure to, the heroes make it to the Parthenon. They kill af Gais minions with the help of the gods. Unfortunatly injuries from Percy and Annabeth dropon the groud which was what needed to happen in order for Gaia to wake from her slumber. Despite their efforts the bring the Athena Parthenos back to camp to stop the war, the war starts any way but quickly turns from the Greeks and Romans fighting to A fight between all the demigods and Gaia. The Argo II is thrown across the world by Zeus and his mighty strength and get there just in time for the battle. Leo and his mechanical dragon Phestus grab Gaia from the ground and fly her into the sky. Leo uses his ability to control fire to make himself explode into a mini supernova. The Romans adn Greeks become friends and though every knew in theri hearts Leo was they belived he was alive anyways. They all were relived their quest was over and tryed to get back to their normal lives. Leo it turns out was not and had injected himself with the cure for right after he died. He ended up with the love of his life, Calypso, and rode his dragon into the sunset.

i think this was a great wrap-up to this series and am really happy with the way it ended. I was actually convinced that Leo was and had given up hope until I turned to the last chapter and saw that Leo was narrating.I think Rick Riordan is an amazing author and that this book was his finest yet. This book was suspenseful, funny, sarcastic and thrilling all atthe same time. It was the perfect way to end the series and I had that feeling of sadness that i would never know what happened to them after that but I guess that is the beauty of literature. the characters were all intersting with their personal backstories and special qualites. I will miss these characters and will always wonder what happend after I closed the book.

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Summary: The time when Gaia finally awakens is drawing near, and she can only be stopped by all of the demigods, both Greek and Roman, working together. Reyna, Nico, and Coach Hedge are working to bring the Athena Parthenos statue back to Camp Half-Blood - the only thing that might stop the Greek

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and Roman demigods from destroying each other instead of fighting Gaia's forces. But they're traveling via Nico's shadow powers, which are draining him - possibly beyond what he can endure. Meanwhile, the seven demigods aboard the Argo II - Percy, Jason, Annabeth, Leo, Piper, Hazel, and Frank - head towards Athens, where Gaia's forces are concentrated, but encountering myriad dangers along the way. They are desperate to find some way to stop her… but always mindful of the prophecy that states that in order to save the world, one of them may have to die.

Review: I enjoy the heck out of these books. Riordan's so good at his characterization, setting up each of his protagonists as interesting, sympathetic, and unique people that you can't help but root for (and fear for - that damn prophecy!) This book is as action packed and quick-moving as you might expect, but it also contains all these wonderful little character moments that make you laugh (more than once!), or smile, or nod in recognition, or break your heart (mostly Nico. I know he's not a hugger, but ye gods, I just want to hug the poor kid). Even Piper - who had previously been pretty flat for me - got some dimensionality in this one, and her own chance to save the day. The downside to this is because there are so many protagonists to this story (and since it's been two and a half years since I was introduced to most of them - longer for Percy and Annabeth), that it's tough keeping all of their backstories straight at the time, especially since only half of them have POV chapters in this novel. Which, on that note: It seems weird to me that in the last book of a multi-protagonist series, that we don't get POV chapters from each of the protagonists. Maybe that would have made it feel even more fragmented, but I would have liked to hear from everybody - even briefly - one last time.

I had a similar problem remembering all of the various plot threads as I did with the character's backstories - I only vaguely remembered past events that wind up being hugely important in this one. But the truth was, it didn't really hamper my enjoyment of the novel much at all. I still followed what was happening without much difficulty, and I thought that Riordan did a great job tying everything together, and giving us a resolution that was satisfying and complete, but didn't feel too easy, and still left you wanting to know what happens next in these people's lives - not because the story arc was unresolved, but just because you care about them. 4 out of 5 stars.

Recommendation: Starting here would be ridiculous; start with The Lost Hero, or even better, with The Lightning Thief. But the series (both series!) as a whole is a ton of fun if you like fast-paced mid-grade/young adult adventure fantasy, especially if you grew up a Greek mythology nut like me.

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A fun book, but after all of the buildup the end seemed a bit abrupt. Despite the constant teases and prophecies that Percy and Jason needed to overcome their fatal flaws to succeed, this seemingly major plot point was just dropped, and the final fight did not seem to involve all of our heroes in a

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serious way. However, the character of Nico really shined in this book, and I loved the ending he received.

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A satisfying end to the new series, if a bit light on Percy Jackson moments (though to be fair, he had a whole series of his own.) As always, the humor and plotting is a bit juvenile, but still a nice mashup of Greek and Roman mythology with the quest/coming-of-age narratives.

As the culmination of the full (double) series, this book works on a lot of levels, though it certainly maintains the flaws of the second series as a whole. Riordan is a master of pace and building intensity; the stakes that have risen consistently with each book find their ultimate apex here. For

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all that, there are a few moments that feel too easy, by the end, but after so much struggle, it's hard to think of a different way out of some of the challenges that our demigod heroes were stuck in. The last, final piece -- which I shall not spoil -- is also a little bit copped out, but that too makes sense for a series that still has a little more middle grade to it than YA, even though its protagonists (all million of them) have grown up enough to experience love and (gasp!) at least the implication of sexual feelings.

The series, overall, gains much from novelty. The story, even repetitive as it often is, picks up the reader and carries him/her for a long way before some of the faults catch up. Riordan's habit of collecting one representative from every "diverse" population he apparently could think of -- while still presenting the two most powerful central heroes as white, cis-hetero males -- is still frustratingly evident, but at the same time, I appreciate that he made an effort to put forth so many different heroes in order, one hopes, that any reader could come to this series and find a heroic character with whom they had something in common. Even if the characterization of those figures is sometimes lackluster (or, on a couple of occasions, unintentionally stereotypical), there is value in having characters that every kid can see themselves within. And, as a teacher of mythology myself, I recognize that we have much to thank Riordan for in terms of bringing ancient myth back to a level of popular interest that it deserves. In the end, the monsters were fun, the adventures were perilous, the heroes were many, and the whole series made an effort to appeal to and connect with all kinds of readers. While still best for its original audience of middle graders, there is much to appreciate here. A good end for those who were ready to be satisfied by happiness, though not a great one for the reader who was looking for more.

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The book starts off with all of the main characters on the Argo II to stop Gaea, the Earth goddess, from awakening and destroying humanity. To do this, they have to talk to the goddess of victory, Nike and see if she will help them. Instead, she attempts to kill them by making them fight each

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other. However, they manage to trick and capture her. After interrogating Nike she says that the only way to defeat Gaea is to have one of the demigods die. After interrogating her more they discover that there is a medicine that can reverse death. So they turn back to get the death defying medicine. However, once they get back to Camp Half-Blood, they realize that they are to late to stop Gaea's awakening. So, one of the demigods, Leo, gets on the ship and pulls Gaea into the sky for the others to destroy. Unfortunately, Leo gets killed by Gaea, and the prophecy becomes true. However, Leo manages to drink the medicine before he is truly dead, and comes back to life again.

Review: This book started out very well. However, I started to notice things that were never unexplained. For instance, how do you defeat victory? I found that to be very confusing. Also, I didn't like how the series ended as a stereotypical happily ever after ending. I would have liked more twists in the plot. Because of its flaws, I would give it a solid three out of five.

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This is the final book in the Heroes of Olympus series.

Obviously, if you’ve read the other books, you’ll want to read this book as well. As always I listened to this book—the reader is quite good for this series. If you haven’t read the series, it is worth your time.

This novel focuses more

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on the other heroes than Percy and Anabeth. Nico, Jason, Reyna, Leo, and Piper are the main heroes who must stop Gaea, the Earth Mother, from destroying the world. The heroes divide with half going to Athens and half going to Camp Half-Blood, only to be reunited in a final battle at the end.

The series does end with a general idea of what everyone will be doing.

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The Argo II team goes to stop Gaea from wakening but first they talk to Nike on how to defeat her. Nike tries to kill them by getting her little minions to kill them but the demigod trap her and force Nike to tell them how to kill Gaea. When she tell them she says one must die for all the others to

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defeat Gaea. So the team goes on a quest to get this magic serum that will bring one them to life again. once they find it all the demigods have this big battle with their parents agains the giants and Leo saves all of them by riding his ship at Gaea and exploding on the ship, but before the last second he drank the serum and survived leo went back to his love on the Island that she is trapped on.
It was a really good book because i love greek and roman mythology and it mixed them in. I hope the make more because they left it off in the middle of a bad ending cause Leo never gets back to his friend. It was also cool how they got to fight alongside the gods.

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I love this series whole-heartedly. One of the best depictions of teens I've read in a YA novel. Also, really diverse cast of characters, which I greatly appreciate!

Loved this series! I felt like I was left hanging on the end.

This is the final chapter in the Heroes of Olympus books. It was a good way to wrap up the series. I felt like each of the characters got closure.

My main complaint about the series as a whole is that is always felt more driven by action and plot than by character development. Every time I got

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truly invested in a character’s storyline, a huge god or giant would pop up and there would be a battle. I wish we’d gotten to spend a little more time seeing those relationships unfold. I particularly loved the interaction between the demigods and their parents. I wish there had been more of that.

BOTTOM LINE: Glad I read it, but it’s not a series I think I’d return to.

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I was of two minds about this book. On the one hand I looked forward to it because Iknew it would answer lots and lots of questions I had at the end of the previous book. But on the other hand it was so much like the previous books in the series, there weren't any super surprising surprises.

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Rick Riordan is a good writer and it was a good book.

It was the finale in the Heroes of Olympus series and also it seemed to be the finale in the wider Greek and Roman series. There were fewer quests for questing sake in this novel, and it was more of a non-stop race to the end (i.e. August first) so that hopefully they (the seven plus a couple of others and a satyr) can save the world from Gaea and her minions.

We get lots of new relationships and a ton of different scenes with different combinations of demigods. I've always felt that Riordan does all those different relationships really well.

It was a good ending to a pretty great series. And we'll see how Riordan does with his future serieses as well.

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Enjoyed this book much more than some of the others--pretty funny dialogue at times.
I did get confused about all of the characters running around and the Greeks and the Romans and keeping track of folks, but that may be because I haven't read the rest of the series recently.
Nico being gay, well

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it just isn't necessary and is such a SMALL part of the book that you really have to wonder why it got put in there other than to irritate a few folks.

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I liked how the ending was worked out and I'm totally hoping for future adventures of other campers.

I liked how the ending was worked out and I'm totally hoping for future adventures of other campers.