Reason of the choice
This is the final book of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and I was eager to finish this series because the previous four books were amazing and I really wanted to know how it would end.
Reaction to the first pages
The beginning of this book is slightly different from the others but I still liked it because I just wanted to know how the series would end, so I didn’t need to be very impressed with the first pages to decide if I wanted to keep reading it or not, because the previous books had made that decision for me. However, even with a different start, it hasn’t disappointed me because this final book had to be different from the previous ones or it would leave us with the feeling that we would need more books to finish the story properly.
Summary
The book starts when Percy and Rachel were hanging out but Charles Beckendorf, one of Percy’s friends at Camp, appears and tells Percy it was time to destroy a ship were part of Kronos’s army were. However, it didn’t go as they planned: they exploded the ship but Beckendorf died and Percy was able to get away from there with his life because he was son of Poseidon, or he would have died too.
After the explosion, Percy was carried by the waters to Poseidon’s palace which was being attacked but the Sea God said he would be able to hold it without Percy’s help and he also said that Percy should went back to Camp because that was the palace where he was needed the most.
As he arrived at Camp, he told the bad news and asked his teacher, Chiron, to tell him the Big Prophecy related to him. Then, Percy was taken to the attic, where the Oracle lived, and she told him the prophecy. While he was at Camp, he was told that almost all the Gods were fighting Typhon, the “father” of all the other monsters, which Percy had freed from his prison and he was also told that nobody was guarding Olympus, so they decided that they had to guard it themselves.
Before leaving the Camp, Percy found Nico, who taught him how to shadow travel with his pet, a hellhound he had inherited from Daedalus to go to Luke’s mother’s house because they needed to know more about Luke’s past if they wanted to defeat him because he was the one who had given his body to Kronos. When they left Luke’s mother’s house, they haven’t understood much of what she said, so they felt it was a little useless but with the development of the story, it all made sense. After that, they went to the Underworld, the realm of Hades, to keep going with Nico’s plan to defeat Kronos.
As soon as they arrived, Hades imprisoned Percy but Nico freed him and convinced Percy to have a bath on River Styx, to be as strong as Achilles, because Luke had also done that before him and that was the only way that they would stand a chance to defeat Kronos. When Hades noticed Percy had escaped, he led an army to jail him again but Percy annihilated them and he left the Underworld.
As soon as Percy arrived in New York, he made a plan to defend the city with the help of the other Half-Bloods, of the nature spirits gathered by Grover, a satyr and his best friend, and by Artemis’s Hunters. They were able to hold Kronos’s attacks but they suffered many losses. In the following day, Prometheus met Percy, offering them their lives if they gave up, but he refused. He had predicted Percy would say something like that, so he gave Percy Pandora’s box and he said that if he changed his mind to open it, so their lives would be spared.
In the next days, they were able to keep holding Olympus away from the Titan’s army but they were losing ground, despite the help given by the centaurs, led by Chiron, by Hades’s army, which was convinced by Nico to help defend Olympus, and by the Ares’s cabin, led by Clarisse, which wasn’t in the battle since the beginning.
When Typhon was near Olympus, the Gods were able to imprison it again because Poseidon came to help. By that time, Kronos was already in Olympus and Percy fought him until Annabeth understood the prophecy and told Percy to give a blade to Kronos while she was trying to bring back Luke’s consciousness. Their plan went well and they were able to defeat Kronos because Luke’s had stabbed himself in his “Achilles spot”, which killed him and the Titan.
Highlights
Once again, the author was able to adapt the old Greek Mythology into the modern times so successfully that all we want to do is to keep reading.
In my opinion, this was an amazing series finale book but I have to admit that I liked more the previous books because the final battle between Percy and Kronos seemed just so little when we compare it to the other stories which contributed to make this series so great.
Nevertheless, after four amazing books, Rick Riordan was still able to bring back even more creatures from the Greek Mythology but I think this was not the best book of this series because its plot was almost only about Percy’s battle against Kronos’s army, while the remaining books had stories with more action and more creatures, creating a very engaging plot which culminated in this last book.
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