The prophecies are a catalyst to get them to go on the quest. The previous two books had 3 narrators and each set of trio had a specific prophecy assigned to them-i.e: Percy, Hazel and Frank had to free death, retrieve the eagle. My main issue with the book lies in the structure and plot. She’s a whole ass child of Aphrodite and she’s worried about her relationship…let me move on. But I don’t think he deserves insecure Piper as a girlfriend. But overall, I think Jason’s rather bland and him and Piper have NO chemistry. He knocked Jason the hell out and was about to end his whole career until Piper got Blackjack to knock him out. I will say when he and Percy were possessed and they fought each other, Percy totally won that fight. He passed out alot during this book, didn’t do much for how hyped his powers are supposed to be. In a related note, I’ve got nothing to say about Jason. Also speaking of the birthday thing, Piper says this while she waits for Jason to blow out his birthday candles. Like what? Did they even kiss this book? I think like once lmao. Then towards the end of the book, she says oh I love you but she literally didn’t know the man’s age prior to that. I don’t she’s listened to a word he said at all. 40, Piper is still so insecure in their relationship. And notice how this quote is from page 19, but again on p. Like damn can Reyna get any love? I get that he doesn’t like her anymore since he met Piper but to have never liked her? That’s rough. You’ve got nothing to worry about, Pipes”. Then I thought Jason had feelings for her but he says this in MoA, page 19: “It’s just…I never felt that way toward Reyna,” Jason said, “so I didn’t think about its making you uncomfortable. First off, I feel so bad for her? Percy turned her down-fine, he has a gf. Do you want your mom’s attention or not? But I’m highkey interested in what Aphrodite said to Reyna tho. Now it was up to her to make things work, and Aphrodite had moved on to newer gossip as easily as she might toss out an old copy of a tabloid magazine” (40). It was almost as if Aphrodite no longer found Piper interesting. She hadn’t bothered explaining her conversation with Reyna at all. Okay so someone tell me why this girl says 10 pages later “But also, Piper was secretly hurt not to have her mother to herself. I could do a quick makeover for Annabeth and Hazel, perhaps silk ball gowns like mine-”Īnd a few lines later she says again “ ‘Mother, Piper said, “is there a reason you’re here?’” (30). “Just because you don’t appreciate my fashion tips, Piper, doesn’t mean the others won’t. “Well, I don’t see why,” the goddess said. The POV is Annabeth’s and while Aphrodite is talking to them, it seems like Piper is just embarrassed to have her around. So at one point, Annabeth, Piper, and Hazel meet up with Aphrodite. Piper, however, is an insecure hypocrite. With characters like Frank, I admitted that sometimes his chapters were a bit boring but I never hated the guy’s narration. I DESPISE her and I hated every single one of her chapters. Gods, none of her chapters ever passed the Bechdel test. So I’ll start with the thing I was most irritated about: Piper. Before I get into it, I will say I’m usually not negative in my ‘reviews’-I’ll give credit where it’s due (I did that in tSoN with Hazel and Frank who weren’t really my fav characters to start with) but this book has very little redeemable aspects imo. No wonder I forgot what happened when I originally read it. I feel so bad for saying that bc I hated tLH (Like I’d give that book 2 stars) but god, this was so bad. Soooo y’all…I think this book is worse than the Lost Hero. I made a little bit of rant post about my feelings about the HoO series overall so far and you can find that here! This post will be about the Mark of Athena (MoA) and as always, spoilers abound. If you want to my thoughts on it (spoilers included) and my background with the series, click here. Hey guys! If you’ve been keeping up with my last couple of posts, you’ll know I’ve been re-reading the Heroes of Olympus (HoO) series by Rick Riordan, starting with the Son of Neptune.
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