Reason of the choice
Since its beginning, I always loved the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. This is the fourth book of this series, so, in order to know how this series will end, I had to read this book to fully understand the whole plot.
Reaction to the first pages
As he always does in these books, Rick Riordan starts them when Percy is at his school, in the mortal world, and something bad happens to him. This book is no different from the others and, then, it developed itself naturally, not forgetting anything that had happened before, described in the previous books, that could influence the series.
Summary
As mentioned above, Percy was at his new school when two creatures, which were serving Kronos, attacked him and Rachel, a mortal girl, who could see through the Mist, a magical veil that doesn’t allow the mortals to see the monsters, gods and everything related to their world.
After fleeing from the school, Percy met Annabeth and they went back to the camp. In there, they found a new sword-master, Quintus, who had a hellhound, which is a creature that usually hunts the Half-Bloods, as a pet. Percy also found that the Council of the Satyrs, creatures which were looking for the wild god, Pan, didn’t believe that Grover, also a satyr, heard Pan. Moreover, all the campers knew that Kronos’s army was trying to find a way to use the Labyrinth created by Daedalus to attack and destroy the Camp.
Being in that situation, Chiron, the centaur who had trained many heroes through the times, named Annabeth to lead a quest with the goal to avoid Daedalus from giving Kronos a way to navigate through the maze. Then, she chose Percy, Tyson, a cyclops and Percy’s brother, and Grover to join her to help her complete the quest.
They were challenged many times: they had to face Kampê, an old monster, to free Briares, a creature with one hundred hands; they had to slay Geryon, a monster with three hearts; Percy almost destroyed one forge of Hephaestus to get rid of some creatures that were using it but that Hephaestues didn’t know what were they; and Percy also had to refuse to stay in Calypso’s island.
Only after all these things had happened, they found out they needed a mortal who could see through the Mist to guide them in the maze, so they went back to New York and asked Rachel to help them. She agreed and, with her guiding them through the Labyrinth, they found Daedalus’s workshop but, in that time, it was too late because he had already given Kronos's army Ariadne’s string, another tool to navigate through the maze. In their way back to Camp, they found Grover and Tyson, after splitting because Grover had felt Pan’s presence, and, after being all together, they found Pan, who died in front of them.
After Pan’s death, they went back to Camp and when they arrived, the Camp was being attacked by Kronos’s army but they were able to defend themselves and contain the attack with the help of Briares, who had got back some hope, and Daedalus, who came back to help because he felt sorry for all the bad things he had done in the past but, in the end, he kills himself to destroy the Labyrinth, which was connected to his life, to prevent Kronos’ army to use it.
Highlights
Once again, Rick Riordan’s writing style kept unchanged and he kept introducing us new creatures and new stories of the ancient Greek mythology. However, these stories are told us as they had happened but the author also tells this main story by adapting the old creatures, gods and titans to our times and it is so interesting because it is not boring to read because we just want to read more and more to know how the story ends.
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