Me, reading and enjoying a book by Rick Riordan? Unheard of! Wait, no it’s not. In The Tower of Nero, the final installment in the Trials of Apollo series, Lester (once the god Apollo) and Meg McCaffrey have made their way back across the United States, on their way to New York, where they will …
Tag: Greek mythology
Book Review | Mythos
Stephen Fry’s Mythos retells many of the Greek myths, revealing the strangeness, humor, and violence of one of the most well known mythologies in the world. We meet gods like Zeus and Hades, as well as minor figures like Psyche and Minos. In a series of short stories, Fry explores how these characters and tales …
Book Review | The Tyrant’s Tomb
I was worried going into this, but I should’ve trusted you, Rick Riordan. This was awesome. After the events of the Burning Maze, Apollo and Meg race to Camp Jupiter. There, they team up with old friends of ours as they attempt to stop the emperors from destroying the demigods, and to understand how the …
Book Review | The Blood of Olympus
My reread of Heroes of Olympus is done! There will be no spoilers for this book here, but there will be some minor spoilers for the previous ones, by nature of this being a review of the final installment. In Rick Riordan’s The Blood of Olympus, the crew of the Argo II is back together, …
Book Review | The House of Hades
In an unexpected turn of events, the book I remembered least might be one of my favorite installments in the series! (By the way, there will be spoilers for the previous books of the series, but not for this book.) At the beginning of The House of Hades—Rick Riordan’s fourth book in the Heroes of …
