I first started reading the Percy Jackson series with my now 12 year old son a couple of years ago. Let's be honest here, the writing is not the greatest and now that we are nine books into the character (4 in this Heroes of Olympus series) I think Mr Riordan is finally out of ideas. The idea for this installment was really intriguing, Percy and Annabeth get dropped into Hades and the rest of the crew have to meet him at the doors of death I mean the whole thing shouts dark themes - right up my alley!
Was it really 600 pages worth of intriguing? Not really. Some of the side stories could have been cut out with no problem and still been a solid book. The final battles and a lot of the character development were very easy to read and worked really well with the two parallel storylines. It was just about 200 pounds too heavy to make it better than a three star read.
Date read: Nov. 3 2013
Goodreads rating: 3 stars
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