He’d wandered Tartarus alone and somehow managed to come out alive. He’d been captured by giants during the rise of Gaea. He’d overcome everyone’s distrust and emerged from the Battle of Manhattan as a hero. He had wandered the Labyrinth in self-imposed exile, being tortured and brainwashed by a malevolent ghost. He’d emerged in modern times disoriented and culture-shocked, arrived at Camp Half-Blood, and promptly lost his sister Bianca to a dangerous quest. He had survived decades in the time-warp reality of the Lotus Casino. And then I cried more because of his relationship with Will. And properly wrote that mental health representation. Like, Rick Riordan pretty much admitted that Nico had been through too much shit. He deserved Will to help him and heal him and the pure PERFECTION of this relationship is making me fangirl so fucking hard. THIS IS ONE OF MY TOP OTPS IN EVER AND I WILL NEVER LET GO OF THEM. And, like I said at the beginning, there’s spoilers for the other two serieses and the first four books of ToA, so.not a good idea to keep reading if you don’t know what I’m talking about.įirst thing I want to incoherently scream over talk about: Solangelo. I won’t go too far into the plot and characters, because this is the last book in the third series, so I mean.the basic idea should be pretty familiar to people. And that was an issue because I had homework to do and I wasn’t doing it. I couldn't stop myself after I started reading. I’m just pointing out that it was very different and it took me by surprise. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with that other than the destruction of my emotions, so I’m not complaining about the pacing. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH SLEEP I LOST STRESSING ABOUT THIS? LITERALLY THE ENTIRE BOOK WAS A HUGE BATTLE AND IT HURT MY BRAIN CELL. What Tower of Nero did was it started the battle 30 PERCENT OF THE WAY IN. Generally, Rick Riordan’s books establish a journey and the obstacles that come with that journey, and then there’s a climactic battle scene near the end, which may or may not end in a cliffhanger (FUCK YOU MARK OF ATHENA). I was very surprised by the pacing of this book. I’M STILL NOT FUCKING OKAY OH MY GOD ASLFKJASLKDGJADSLKFJASDLKGJDASLKGJSDFJKL WHAT THE FUCK. I wasn’t nearly as invested in Trials of Apollo as I was in the Heroes of Olympus series, which remains my favorite out of Rick Riordan’s books.īut I read this book so fucking intensely. I’m going to be honest, I literally did not remember what happened in The Tyrant’s Tomb.

Not kidding, I literally punched the sofa. This book made me ugly-cry, and laugh out loud, and scream when my parents weren’t home. My review is not.Īlso, there will be spoilers near the end (they should be pretty avoidable).] [Warning: I will be cussing a lot in this review.

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