Reason of the choice
As part of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, I had to read it to keep in track of how the story would develop after Percy and his friends were able to retrieve the Golden Fleece from Polyphemus and reviving Thalia.
Reaction to the first pages
Since I read the book some time ago, while I was in college, I don’t remember very well how it was back then but I suppose I was quite anxious to know how the story went. However, I remember I read it quickly, so I enjoyed its beginning.
Summary
In the beginning, Percy, Annabeth and Thalia went to a school to rescue two half-bloods, Nico and Bianca, but they didn’t do it as they have planned because, although they were able to rescue the two kids, a Manticore attacked them, capturing Annabeth. If Artemis didn’t show up to help them, all of them might have been defeated by the creature.
Zoe Nightshade, one of the Hunters, and Percy had dreams that Artemis and Annabeth were in danger but they only went on a quest to save them when the Oracle left the attic, where it lived, to deliver the prophecy to Zoe. Percy wasn’t included in the quest because the Hunters weren’t allowed to travel with boys but he sneaked out of Camp and he went after them.
Bianca, who decided to join the Hunters, was in the quest too despite the short time she was with the other half-bloods. The quest group was attacked along its way by some monsters which were allies of Kronos, Luke, a half-blood who left the Camp to join the Titan and a man Luke called the General. The group was able to get out alive but when they arrived at the “junkyard of the gods”, they had to face a creature created by Hephaestus because Bianca stole a figure of a game to give to his brother, since he loved that game, but, in the end of the fight, she had to sacrifice herself to defeat the creature.
After Bianca’s death, they went to San Francisco, where they found Nereus, who told them that they should seek an Ophiotaurus, which was the creature Artemis was seeking before she got caught, but Percy had already found it before when he was at the Camp.
After knowing they needed the Ophiotaurus, Percy summoned it and Grover went back with it to the Camp and the remaining members of the quest went to Mount Tamalpais, which was the headquarters of Kronos’ army. In there, they found Annabeth chained and Artemis holding the sky, instead of Atlas. Soon after that, Luke and the General, who was Atlas, arrived. Percy offered himself to hold the sky, freeing Artemis. Then, Luke and Atlas battled Thalia, Artemis and Zoe. The quest members and Artemis won the fight and pushed Atlas into the place where Percy was, so Atlas had to hold the sky once again, freeing Percy.
In the end, they returned to Camp but Zoe died in the way back because she was severely wounded by Atlas and Thalia decided to join Artemis. When they arrived at the Camp, Percy had to explain Nico that Bianca had died but he was so upset that he blamed that her death was Percy’s fault and, after the discussion, he ran away from Camp.
Highlights
As always, Rick Riordan had done an amazing job introducing us more stories of the ancient Greek mythology but he adapts them to the modern times and makes it so engaging that we can’t stop reading it, not to mention that his amazing light writing style helps him a lot to get that effect.
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