Lets talk about the final book of the Percy Jackson merchandise,
The Blood of Olympus.
What's up with the title? The series is already called The Heroes of Olympus, couldn't he come up with a better name?
I mean, Rick Riordan is a creative person!
How about The Blood of Gaea, or even The Last Blood?
The title already foreshadowed disappointment, but that didn't stop me from buying it.
Warning: Spoilers Ahead
I didn't really have many problems with it earlier on.
I found that the parts with Reyna and Nico were more interesting than the main plot line.
I feel like we didn't get to see Frank and Percy as much in this book, just a lot of Jason.
Leo seemed to get more and more boring continuing into the story. All of his jokes were based off annoying vanity.
Here we go into the last bits: I will be going in random order
The book feels like Rick Riordan got bored with the series at the end, and stopped trying as much. It seemed to deteriorate as it went.
The fights felt really compact and short -- even Zeus praising Jason(woopee, more Jason) took a page and a half.
They don't discuss how dangerous it really was for Zeus to slap a ship across the Atlantic. (Of course we knew they'd live, but that's beside the point.)
Leo's death should have been sadder, and drawn out a bit longer before you flip to the next page and find out he's alive. That kind of kills it.
They don't focus a lot on the prophecy these books, so I'd forgotten what it said. In the original series, they repeated the lines multiple times, and people were thinking about them all the time. They seemed to have forgotten about it until the actual thing happened.
I feel that its kind of cheesy that we don't see anybody good die in this book. They said one of the four would die, so they went and found a magical cure(wow how convenient!) that cured death. It's the final book, the final battle -- I think at least somebody we knew should die. Not just "There were many casualties for both the Greeks and the Romans".
I feel like each of the individual 7 demigods got way too powerful. They already are demigods, but then most of them have a special thing or two added on. I'll start from least to greatest.
7. Annabeth - I have no problem with her character, and am glad that he didn't add on some random magical thing that happens to surface and fix all their problems.
6. Percy - He didn't really do as much in this book, and he doesn't have any super special things that would set him too far apart from Poseidon's other demigod children. (If he has any)
5. Jason - He took up a huge part of this books, which kind of sucks, because he was my least favorite character. As for powers, he doesn't have any super special things that would set him too far apart from Zeus's other demigod children.
4. Leo - He has the rare option of fire, for a Hephaestus child, but he doesn't control it entirely. He is also immune to fire, so....
3. Frank - I would have put him as lesser overpowered because of the firewood, but it hardly comes up because of Leo's fireproof baggy. Now he's just an overpowered son of Ares who also has Ares's blessing, so he's super tall and strong and leader-y and overpowered.
2. Hazel - She is already daughter of Hades, so she's already just as powerful and Percy and Jason(with the tunnels and jewels and stuff). But noooo- she has to add on the Mist as a power, because it's convenient for her to possess that power and hide all of them from monsters and gods and goddesses and sorceresses.
1. Piper - I wasn't sure whether to put Hazel or Piper at the top of the list, but chose Piper because of the sudden sheer power of her charm speak. I mean, Gaea is the goddess, she could nearly wipe out the earth when she was asleep. But I guess that's okay, just blast her with fire and tell her to go back to sleep and it'll all be o.k.
(there's an addition of Nico manipulating dreams, but he's not one of the seven, so...)
I think that's about it. If you have anything to add or suggest, please comment.
Btw what do you think about Leo?
I have a classmate that's insisting that he's dead.
I don't think so.
What do you think?
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