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THE LAST OLYMPIAN

From the percy jackson and the olympians series , vol. 5.

by Rick Riordan ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 5, 2009

In the fifth and final installment of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, Percy is turning 16, when it has been prophesied he'll make a choice affecting the fate of Western civilization. It takes 100 pages to set all of the players in place, but every detail proves essential to the playing out of the grand battle between the Titans and the Olympian gods. Morpheus has put New York City to sleep, preparing for the invasion of Kronos, Typhon and their army of monsters. Standing between them and their destination of Olympus, now at the top of the Empire State Building, are Percy, Annabeth, their demigod pals from Camp Half-Blood, the gods of Olympus and an assortment of other demigods and minor gods. Riordan masterfully orchestrates the huge cast of characters and manages a coherent, powerful tale at once exciting, philosophical and tear-jerking. The bestselling series's legions of fans will cheer their heroes on and rejoice in such a compelling conclusion to the saga. (Fiction. 9 & up)

Pub Date: May 5, 2009

ISBN: 978-1-4231-0147-5

Page Count: 400

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 15, 2009

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The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan: Book Review

It’s show time.

The battle between the Olympians and the Titans, thousands of years in the making, is finally here.

Kronos has had ample time to prepare his plans while Zeus and company have been having their own quarrels and parties. He strikes at multiple fronts, almost simultaneously, and no one knows what his true objective is. Percy knows that it can only be Olympus, the seat of the gods’ powers. No one will really listen to him though, so it falls to the Half-Bloods to guard Olympus against the worst that Kronos can throw at them.

This book takes a decidedly darker turn than the others. It begins with a death and doesn’t get much brighter from there. That’s not to say that it’s depressing, exactly, but it’s definitely more serious. The campers are injured and killed right and left and it seems that there’s no possible way they can withstand Kronos.

Percy himself makes a choice near the beginning that had me worried for him throughout the book. This move didn’t work out so well in classical mythology, so I was worried about its impact on Percy as well.

Annabeth is still insanely jealous, but she’s doing her best to move past it and support Percy. And she’s just Annabeth with all her mad skillz and plans. Love. Her.

But, while I’m talking about them, they definitely felt older than 14 or so. Maybe Harry Potter conditioned me to think that the last book should be about 18-year-olds, but everyone feels a little too grown up and mature and serious.

I never read series books back-to-back because I tend to get a little sick of the characters, and the small explanations of what went on in earlier books drive me crazy because they feel repetitious. I made an exception here. I just had to know how everything was going to wrap up, so I finished Battle of the Labyrinth and immediately went to The Last Olympian . Yes, the series is that good.

There were elements of the Trojan war here, worked in in surprising ways. I adore the way Riordan pulls this off.

Oh, one other thing. The gods were not really all that great in classical mythology. They did whatever they wanted with little thought for the impact on mortals. That aspect of them is picked up in this final book.

Prometheus makes an appearance here and I was very disappointed in him. I’ve always liked him and felt bad for him, but he irritated me this time around.

Overall, a very strong finish to a series that I loved. Highly, highly, highly recommended.

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The last olympian — “percy jackson and the olympians” series.

• Rick Riordan
• Adventure , Fantasy

Readability Age Range

• Miramax Books, a division of Hyperion Books for Children
• Best Seller Lists, 2010:USA Today, Wall Street JournalandL.A. Times

Year Published

This book has been reviewed by Focus on the Family’s marriage and parenting magazine . It is the fifth book in the “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series.

Plot Summary

Percy Jackson, half-mortal and half-Greek god, has known his demi-god (or “hero”) status for several years. As the son of Poseidon, the sea god, he’s gone on several quests to aid and rescue gods or other half-bloods similar to himself. He spends his summers at Camp Half-Blood, where he and other heroes find magical protection from monsters and learn how to cope with — perhaps even embrace — their unusual heritage.

The long-anticipated war between the Titans and the Olympian gods begins. Percy, nearly 16, and a fellow camper named Beckendorf intercept a ship carrying some of the Titan army and its leader, Lord Kronos. Kronos, birth father and nemesis of the gods, has inhabited the body of a half-blood dissenter named Luke. Beckendorf dies when he and Percy blow up the ship, but Kronos survives. Percy escapes underwater to see his father, Poseidon, and his Cyclops brother, Tyson. He considers joining the battle they’re waging to preserve the seas, but Poseidon urges him to return to Camp Half-Blood and help fight Kronos.

At camp, Nico, son of Hades, tells Percy they need to understand their enemy before they can fight him. Nico takes Percy to Luke’s childhood home, where they meet Luke’s mother. She once had an ability rarely found in mortals, to “see through the Mist” and view gods and monsters as they really are. When Luke was small, his mother tried to use her gift for good by becoming a physical host for the Oracle of Delphi’s disembodied spirit. But Hades had placed a curse on the Oracle, which made this impossible and left Luke’s mother insane. Luke’s bitterness at his father, Hermes, for not saving him from a crazy mother drove Luke to side with Kronos. Nico and Percy also meet Hestia, goddess of the hearth and “the last Olympian” who surrendered her position of power to keep the peace amongst her siblings. Her visions help them discover that, like Luke, Percy must get his mother’s blessing and then bathe in the River Styx so he can become invincible.

After doing this, Percy returns to New York City. Through an elevator at the Empire State Building, he and his army of campers reach modern day Olympus — the city they must defend. Though the gods are largely unwilling to help in battle, they offer visions and warnings. Back in Manhattan, Percy and the others (including his friends Grover, a satyr, and Annabeth, the daughter of Athena) fight many battles against Kronos’ monsters while the mortals of the city sleep under the spell of Morpheus. Percy receives visions about Nico’s past and cryptic messages from Rachel Dare, a girl who also can see through the Mist, in his dreams. At each point, when the battle seems most bleak, another unexpected god or hero joins the war to defend Olympus. Kronos is finally defeated when Annabeth reminds Luke, still trapped deep inside his own body, that he promised they would always be family. Luke summons the strength to overthrow Kronos, though he has to kill himself to do it.

After the battle, the Olympian gods offer Percy the honor of becoming immortal. He refuses the gift but asks for the gods’ promise to claim and interact with their mortal children from this point forward. The curse on the Oracle is reversed, and Rachel Dare becomes the new Oracle of Delphi. Percy and Annabeth cement their relationship with a kiss as they prepare to remodel the city of Olympus and interpret a new prophecy.

Christian Beliefs

Other belief systems.

As a whole, the gods have little involvement in the day-to-day lives of their demi-god children. They will appear or provide power to the kids on rare occasions often when they need human assistance to accomplish a personal goal. Many of the demi-gods resent their illusive parents. When Kronos, father of the Olympian gods and goddesses, wages a vengeful war against his children, he uses the demi-gods’ bitterness to draw many to his side of the battle. Rather than accept immortality from the gods for his heroic deeds in the war, Percy makes the Olympian leaders promise to claim and pay attention to their half-blood children. He believes better parent-child relationships will keep future disagreements from escalating into war.

Authority Roles

The premise of the “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series is that the gods of mythology exist today and control world events with their magical powers. As in the ancient myths, the gods and goddesses still have affairs with humans. Their children, such as Percy, are powerful demi-gods. Percy and other half-bloods frequently pray to the gods, especially their Olympian parents, for help or direction. As the centers of power have moved throughout history, so have the gods, who now live in, above and below America. The monsters that pursue the demi-gods are primal forces without souls so they cannot die, only re-form into monsters. The Oracle of Delphi (a spirit who lives in the attic at Half-Blood Hill) provides prophesies concerning what the demi-gods will or must do.

Several gods and demi-gods swear to one another on the River Styx. Demi-gods’ dreams are usually visions or omens. The demi-gods often wish for (or wish each other) luck. Half-bloods ritualistically throw some of their dinner into the campfire as an offering to the gods. A demi-god helps heal Annabeth by humming a hymn to Apollo in ancient Greek. Annabeth and other demi-gods receive nectar of the gods for healing.

Anyone who dies goes to the Underworld. Heroes hope they or their friends will be granted entry into a section called Elysium. Those who achieve Elysium may choose to be reborn in three different lifetimes in an effort to reach the Isle of the Blest. Percy calls this the Underworld’s ultimate party headquarters.

Nico can see the auras of people who are about to die. He suggests that if Grover died, the satyr would reincarnate into something in nature. Percy has a magical empathy link with Grover that sometimes allows him to hear or locate his friend or to know what the satyr is feeling.

Rachel, Percy’s mom, and a few other mortals, can see through the Mist, a “magic veil” that keeps most humans from seeing gods and monsters as they really are. Because of her abilities, Rachel chooses to let the spirit of the Oracle of Delphi live in her so she can voice its prophecies.

Profanity & Violence

The heroes replace any potential use of the Lord’s name with “gods.” There are several instances of phrases like “Oh my gods” or “gods bless you.” One demi-god yells, “Holy Zeus!” The words suck, heck and darn each appear a time or two.

Action-packed battles and swordplay are common in this story. The fact that monsters dissolve rather than die significantly reduces the images of bloodshed. Many of the teenage heroes are injured, and a few are killed. Thalia, a huntress, wears a “Death to Barbie” shirt depicting a Barbie doll with an arrow through its head. Hades, Lord of the Dead, wears a cloak displaying “the terrified faces of the damned” and rides in a chariot decorated with scenes of painful deaths. When he and Nico join the Olympians in battle, they bring along an army of skeletal, undead soldiers who claw their way out of the Underworld.

Sexual Content

Rachel gives Percy a goodbye kiss on the cheek. Percy recalls Annabeth kissing him when she thought he was going to die. Annabeth kisses him at the end of the story as they make their affection clear to one another.

Discussion Topics

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Additional Comments

When the residents of New York City are asleep due to a spell, various demi-gods discuss whether or not to raid their favorite now-unattended stores. Several seem to be fine with stealing, while others, such as Percy, forbid stealing and suggest leaving money at a drug store if they need medicine.

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The Gods Must Be Crazy

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By Elizabeth Devereaux

• May 28, 2009

In Rick Riordan’s universe, Greek mythology is alive and well — in Central Park, the alleys of Los Angeles, the peak of Mount Tamalpais in California, the strawberry fields of Long Island. Heroes are typically dyslexic (their brains are meant for classical Greek), have A.D.H.D. (the better for one-on-one combat) and know only one parent (gods still have affairs with mortals). Prophecies bemuse, prompt and mislead. Monsters may be destroyed, but they do not die; it is the task of the hero to defeat them for his time.

We first met Percy in “The Lightning Thief” at age 12, when he learned that he was a son of Poseidon. Now he concludes his adventures in “The Last Olympian.” As is often the case in middle-grade fantasy series, the stakes couldn’t be higher: here the fate of Western civilization hangs in the balance. The Titan Kronos, the overthrown father of Zeus, is slowly regaining power, with the intention of destroying the gods and everything built upon them, i.e., the West. While the unimaginably large monster Typhon rages cross-country from Mount St. Helens to New York City, beating back the Olympian gods and goddesses, Kronos and his minions battle the not quite 16-year-old Percy and his coterie of half-bloods, or demigods. The clash of modern and classical worlds is both exciting and entertaining (as when Percy meets his former math teacher: “A shadow appeared overhead — something dark, cold and stinking of death. It swooped down and landed in the top of a poplar tree. . . . ‘Mrs. Dodds,’ I said”).

The action, never leisurely in any of the five books in the series, runs at a frantic pace here — monsters pop out with a rapidity that becomes almost predictable, except that they are so enjoyably hair-raising, and that Riordan has such clever ways of dispatching them. The tempo distracts from a few jarring plot points. (The war god’s daughter opts out of one of the biggest battles since Troy because her cabin at Camp Half-Blood didn’t win a certain prize — how’s that again?) In general, however, Riordan — an award-winning author of mysteries for adults — has been carefully laying the foundation for the outcome all along. An ominous “Great Prophecy” hinted at from the beginning of the series comes true, and its fulfillment has a sphinx-like complexity.

Like the stories in which they’re rooted, Riordan’s Percy Jackson novels speak to more than one audience, and in more than one key. Here is Demeter “harrumphing” at Persephone: “You could’ve married the god of doctors or the god of lawyers, but nooo . You had to eat the pomegranate.” For all the jokes and the monster mayhem, there is also room for grandeur and big questions, like the meaning of family, home and hearth; the place for Hope, which resurfaces in a sealed jar retrieved from Pandora; the distance between knowledge, or foreknowledge, and love; and the traditional indifference of the gods.

In a distinctly nonclassical, crowd-pleasing moment near the end, the gods are made humane. Fortunately, Riordan is almost certain to restore them quickly to their proper scale: as the book closes, the Delphic oracle issues a new prophecy, letting readers know that a new series cannot be far away.

THE LAST OLYMPIAN

Percy jackson & the olympians, book 5.

By Rick Riordan

381 pp. Disney Hyperion Books. $17.99.(Ages 10 and up)

Elizabeth Devereaux is the former children’s book review editor of Publishers Weekly.

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The last olympian: percy jackson and the olympians, book 5, common sense media reviewers.

Fantasy series' excellent conclusion ups the violence.

A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this book.

Many references to characters and creatures in Gre

Consistent with the whole series, strong messages

Percy continues to be a brave hero who dives into

There's good neurodiverse representation here: All

The big battle in New York City starts halfway thr

A couple of kisses and talk of (straight) couples

Mr. D drinks Diet Coke. Plus mentions of Reeboks,

Parents need to know that Rick Riordan's The Last Olympian is the last book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Like the first four books, you'll find plenty of monster-fighting action. This time, the big battle in New York City starts halfway through the book, and fighting is persistent with many…

Educational Value

Many references to characters and creatures in Greek mythology and their stories: the major gods but especially Hestia and Hades; the Titans, especially Kronos, Hyperion, Hyperborea, and Typhon; the minor gods such as Nemesis, Morpheus (god of dreams), and Dionysus; non-gods and immortals such as Pandora, Achilles, Prometheus, and the Furies; and scary monsters such as the drakon (way worse than a dragon), the Clazmonian Sow, Karkinos (crab demon), Empousai, and hell hounds. Many details about the bridges, tunnels, rivers, statues, and other landmarks of New York City. Some details on what it's like to have dyslexia and ADHD.

Positive Messages

Consistent with the whole series, strong messages about teamwork, friendship, resilience, resourcefulness, and bravery in the face of danger. In this particular book, Hestia, goddess of the hearth, tells Percy that "hope survives best at the hearth," or, relationships with those closest to us give us reasons to be hopeful and more resilient in difficult times.

Positive Role Models

Percy continues to be a brave hero who dives into dangerous situations and thinks quickly on his feet, especially when there are friends to save. He's also an excellent mediator in this book, rallying the gods to work together even though they hold many grudges against each other. He also turns down a gift from the gods in favor of giving acknowledgement to others who have suffered the indifference of their godly parents. He also acknowledges the heroism of others who follow the wrong path and then atone for what they've done.

Diverse Representations

There's good neurodiverse representation here: All kids with one god parent (Percy and all other Camp Half-Blood campers) have dyslexia and ADHD. Also, Annabeth is the smartest in the group and Clarisse and Artemis' hunters (all female) are the best warriors. There's one Black character mentioned, Charles Beckendorf, and a Hispanic character, Chris Rodriguez, both half-bloods at camp.

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Violence & Scariness

The big battle in New York City starts halfway through the book, and fighting is persistent with many casualties, a few of them mourned heavily. Regular mortals in the city are put to sleep for most of it and are mostly out of the way of fighting. When they aren't, half-bloods will try to move them to safety between fights with gigantic Titan beasts including a sow, rampaging giants, and a drakon (way bigger than a dragon). There's a little gore when a monster is stabbed in and strung up by the eye sockets to be dragged around as a battle trophy. Most half-blood injuries are magically healed. A ship explodes. Lots of talk about Percy's soul being reaped as part of a prophecy. Flashbacks and a visit to a woman who has gone insane and how that affected her son. Another flashback to the death of another boy's mother from an explosion.

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Sex, Romance & Nudity

A couple of kisses and talk of (straight) couples at camp. Much talk of gods having affairs with mortals and their resulting kids that need to be acknowledged. Percy meets Poseidon's godly wife who's not his mother, and it's awkward.

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Products & Purchases

Mr. D drinks Diet Coke. Plus mentions of Reeboks, Tommy Bahama, Prius, Duane Reade pharmacies, Skippy peanut butter. Apparently monsters hate the scent of Givenchy perfume and the cheeseburgers at the Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City are great.

Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Rick Riordan 's The Last Olympian is the last book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series . Like the first four books, you'll find plenty of monster-fighting action. This time, the big battle in New York City starts halfway through the book, and fighting is persistent with many casualties, a few of them mourned heavily. Regular mortals in the city are put to sleep for most of it and are mostly out of the way of fighting -- when they aren't, half-bloods will try to move them to safety between fights with gigantic Titan beasts including a sow, rampaging giants, and a drakon (way bigger than a dragon). There's a little gore when a monster is stabbed in and strung up by the eye sockets to be dragged around as a battle trophy. Most half-blood injuries are magically healed, and especially fast if Apollo is around. Expect some mild romance and kissing and product mentions, especially Reebok and Skippy peanut butter. As usual, you can expect great things from our favorite ADHD, dyslexic hero, Percy Jackson. Not only does he take on the gnarliest monsters, he also plays mediator to the gods when he needs them to put aside their many grudges and work together.

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In THE LAST OLYMPIAN: PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS, BOOK 5, the Titans are approaching Manhattan to take over Olympus and Percy knows he must do everything he can to slow them down. Most of the gods are fighting the giant Typhon as he rampages from the West Coast eastward, leaving terrible damage in his wake. That leaves Kronos' cruise ship full of monsters off the East Coast. The plan is to sneak onto their ship to plant explosives with his fellow camper Charles Beckendorf, but somehow they're found out and Percy faces Kronos in a sword fight that nearly kills him. After he recovers in his father Poseidon's palace, Percy realizes he'll never beat Kronos, not without taking drastic measures. Enter Nico, son of Hades, and his dangerous proposition. Together they journey to the Underworld for a dip in the river Styx. This will make Percy's body invulnerable -- it worked for Achilles back in the day… kind of. Before they can enact their plan, Hades captures them and imprisons Percy. The God of Death doesn't care if his godly siblings are fighting the Titans and that if Olympus falls, there goes all of Western civilization with it. Now Percy realizes just how difficult this war will be. The half-blood heroes can't fight the Titans without all the gods working together, and right now the gods are more divided than ever.

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Yes, Percy Jackson fans, this finale delivers all the goods -- massive monster battles, Camp Half-Blood camaraderie, daring plans, prophecies, spies and traitors, and even a little romance. When the battle ramps up at the halfway point of the book, the worry for those who prefer story over action is that it will be all Titan monster battles, all the time. But there's still plenty of story in the mix. Through flashbacks we learn about Luke's family tragedy and what Zeus did to Hades to create such a rift among the gods. And we follow a number of mysteries, like who is the spy at camp, why is mortal Elizabeth Dare painting scenes from Camp Half-Blood when she's never been there, and where in New York City can you rustle up enough root beer to satisfy a whole army of party-loving centaurs?

OK, now for the action and the monsters. Author Rick Riordan wrangles some truly terrible and gigantic creatures from Tartarus to fight it out in New York City's streets, tunnels, bridges, and rivers. You think you've seen it all -- regular giants, giants with serpents for legs, giant flying sows -- until the skyscraper-hugging, poison-spewing drakon shows up. There's no defeating it without real sacrifice, and readers will cheer for a character they never expected to cheer for as she steps up to defeat it. Of course the biggest monsters to fight aren't always visible, and the final standoff with Kronos/Luke shows how hard giant feelings of anger and abandonment can be to defeat. More than one character shows remorse for turning the wrong path and demonstrates true bravery to admit their wrongs, and then dies a hero. While the finale finish could have stuck to action, it delivers so much more, and will leave readers hoping for more adventures to come with Percy Jackson.

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Families can talk about who the last Olympian is in The Last Olympian . Why do you think campers usually ignore her? Why is she so important? Why does Percy give her Pandora's jar?

Three characters who were once villains are honored as heroes by the end of the battle. Who are they? What other stories can you think of that show a villain turning into a hero? How are these characters usually remembered?

This isn't the end! There's so much more Percy Jackson out there. You can choose from the Heroes of Olympus series or see him make a cameo in the Trials of Apollo series. Will you read more?

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• Author : Rick Riordan
• Genre : Fantasy
• Topics : Magic and Fantasy , Superheroes , Adventures , Brothers and Sisters , Friendship , Great Boy Role Models , Monsters, Ghosts, and Vampires , Ocean Creatures
• Character Strengths : Courage , Perseverance , Teamwork
• Book type : Fiction
• Publisher : Hyperion Books for Children
• Publication date : May 5, 2009
• Publisher's recommended age(s) : 10 - 14
• Number of pages : 381
• Available on : Paperback, Nook, Audiobook (unabridged), Hardback, iBooks
• Last updated : May 18, 2022

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Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan | Review

Books in this series:

• Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief  – ✬✬✬✬✬
• Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters  – ✬✬✬✬✬
• Percy Jackson and the Titans Curse – ✬✬✬
• Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth – ✬✬✬ 1/2
• Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian – ✬✬✬✬✬

[This review contains spoilers for Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, the Sea of Monsters, the Titan’s Curse, the Battle of the Labyrinth and the Last Olympian]

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The Last Olympian was a wild ride, to say the least. It was an action-packed, fun book, without a single dull moment. I enjoyed the plot but felt it lacked character development. Characters were constantly, moving in and out of scenes before they could really develop and the story was constantly changing. The book was basically one big long drawn-out fight scene.

I enjoyed the book but would have enjoyed more slow scenes where I could watch the character develop. Annabeth and Percy are two people I have been rooting to date since TLT and whilst they do finally get together in TLO, we don’t really get to see it. They share a peck, then the two go underwater and kiss, but the scene was short and the underwater kiss was reduced to one sentence. I’m not saying I wanted a full-on-makeout scene, but I would have at least liked them to talk a little more about their relationship.

There were a ton of characters in this book, so forgive me if I’m missed anyone.

It’s a little hard to talk about Percy in TLO because he was often very busy running around, fighting monsters, solving puzzles and healing people that he didn’t have much time to develop as a character. In the end, he makes the gods take responsibility for their children. This was by far my favourite part of the story, as I’ve always thought the gods were shitty parents and didn’t like the way the campers blindly obeyed and looked up to them.

Annabeth is normally my favourite PJO character, but in the last two novels, her character has changed dramatically, and not in a good way. Annabeth is mean to Rachel and extremely rude to Percy whenever Rachel is around, only backing off when Rachel becomes the oracle and can’t legally be with Percy. It came off as very rude mean and ‘I’m-not-like-other-girls’ bullying. It’s a shame because up until this book Annabeth has probably been my favourite character in the series.

I love Grover and I’m really disappointed he doesn’t have more of a role in these books. He’s a funny, cute character and I always enjoy the few short scenes he has.

Clarisse La Rue

I don’t have much of an opinion on Clarisse. I don’t really like her, don’t really hate her. I do like that she and Percy seem to have an allyship, despite not really liking each other very much. I enjoyed her friendship with Silena, but it did seem to come out of nowhere. Seeing her father say he was proud of her at the end was very sweet. I think Ares is still my favourite god, despite his flaws.

Charles Beckendorf

What was the point of his death? I liked Beckendorf, he didn’t do much throughout the books but he was a cool character. Because we didn’t see him die I just assumed he wasn’t really died. So when Nico said he’d talked to his ghost I was very confused, because, that death was kind of pointless? What was the point of it? It seemed like RR was too scared to kill any big characters so he went with a few pointless side characters instead.

Silena Beauregard

I didn’t really like or dislike Silena, because I didn’t see enough of her to make a decision about her character. She was in the previous books, I think, but didn’t do much and in this one, she just cried the whole book and then died. I will admit her replacing Clarisse and saving the day was epic, but her being revealed to be the big betrayal was boring. I really thought it would be Annabeth or Chiron or someone more interesting than a character we barely know.

Still not the biggest fan of Tyson, but at least he’s in the books enough that he doesn’t get too annoying. He’s grown on me a little, and I think he’s kind of funny at times.

Luke Castellan

I’m going to just say it: Luke was right.

I thought I was crazy reading this book because the whole time I kept thinking about how Luke was right. The gods are awful. They bonk around with humans, ditch them when pregnant, and then abandon their children completely.

None of the Gods are good parents. Even Poseidon, who is the ‘nicer’ of the Gods meets Percy maybe 5 times in the series? He’s a crap Dad, barely there. I don’t even know why Percy calls him Dad. If I was a demi-god I would probably avoid camp at all cost and try and live a normal life. I would not care about my godly parent and would certainly not call them Mum/Dad.

The gods treat their kids like crap and Luke was right to hate them. He went about it the wrong way, and in the end, his death led to Percy asking the Gods to do better, but I am still team #LukeWasRight.

Didn’t like her the Titan’s Curse, didn’t like her now. She’s just not what I expect when I think of Zeus’s daughter. I hate how she’s stuck 15 forever. If she grew up maybe she’d become a little less insufferable.

I like Nico but I find it hard to take his character seriously. He’s supposed to be this sort of dark anti-hero, which is cool and it works until you remember he’s 13 and then the coolness disappears. I can see him becoming a great villain when he’s older.

He was a dick. I loved him in Sea of Monsters, he was definitely my favourite god besides maybe Ares, but in this book, he was a dick. Hermes was mean to Percy and co often because Annabeth refused to help Luke. Here’s the thing, why didn’t Hermes help out? I’m sick of these gods hating kids for doing/not-doing things they could fix with a snap of their fingers. Maybe if Hermes didn’t leave his kid with a mentally unwell mother he wouldn’t haven’t done the things he did.

Rachel Elizabeth Dare

Why is she hated again? I still don’t get it. She didn’t do much in this book, besides sulk around her home and then go to camp and become the oracle. I’m kind of sad she didn’t have a bigger part as I thought for sure she was going to be revealed to be the daughter of a god or a secret bad guy. Her relationship with Percy was cute, but was brushed aside and barely shown. I would have liked to have seen her play a bigger part in the overall story.

Overalls thoughts

Overall I think this book and this series is good, it’s just maybe not for me. Not only am I way too old for these books but I also have 0 interest in Greek mythology. The series relies on the audience already knowing a lot about Greek mythology beforehand and as someone who doesn’t I was often left confused by all the characters with ten-different names and century-long backstories.

I do enjoy the characters, especially Percy, Annabeth, Grover and Luke and would enjoy reading platonic/domestic content about them just living their lives, but when it comes to the Greek mythology stuff, I’m really not that interested. I don’t think I’ll be reading Heroes of Olympus.

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The Last Olympian

All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows.

While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it’s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time. In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy’s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.

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Review: The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #5) by Rick Riordan

MY ⭐️ RATING: 4.5/5

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All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it’s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time. In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy’s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.

This is definitely my favorite book of the series, it had everything you could ask for and then some. It was an absolutely epic book that had a tremendous amount of action with Percy and company defending Manhattan from Kronos while the gods hand their hands full with other Titans. When I say tremendous amount, the battle is probably about 80% of the book, so we get a lot of great battle scenes. Riordan was able to put so much action in this while still giving some emotional moments between with our beloved characters to send you through a whirlwind of emotions. There was a Harry and the Henderson’s moment with Mrs. O’Leary, that I absolutely loved, as soon as it happened I immediately recognized it, John Lithgow would be proud!

“I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.”

My only gripe is that Mr. Riordan seems to forget his own story line at the end of book 4 saying that mist was used by Chiron to cloud everyone on what happened at the school, including Percy’s new step-dad, Paul Blofis. For some reason without any explanation, Blofis remembers what happened that day at the beginning of this final book. Not a major plot hole, but big enough that it should be mentioned.

This was such a fun series, and I will definitely be reading more from Mr. Riordan in the future. This might be YA, but this fits all audiences… especially audiences that love Greek mythology! Which again, I felt like I got a great fun story, but I also got a history lesson with some of these minor gods that I didn’t know a lot about. That always wins me over! Also I’d like to say that Jesse Bernstein has done an excellent job with this entire series and deserves a lot of credit for how much I enjoyed it!

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The Percy Jackson series is a way to find more about all the Greek mythological stories. The stories are generally about Kronos (the evil titan lord) trying to overthrow the Gods by building up an army. Percy is a son of Poseidon, god of the sea, which makes him a demigod.

Most of the books are about Percy going on quests with his other demigod friends and trying to stop Luke Callestan son of Hermes, who had befriended him to join Kronos. The series is tense and sometimes very weird. Once reading one of the books it's hard to stop! Of the five books in the Percy Jackson series, the fifth book, Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian has to be my favourite. The book is the last of the series and is to me the most exciting, because the book is like the finale. Most the book is about Percy and 40 other demigods trying to save Manhattan from the evil forces of Kronos. Whenever reading any of the books I feel fully consumed as if I'm there and I hope it's the same for others.

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Rick Riordan’s The Last Olympian is the fifth and final installment of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Published in 2009, this fantasy children’s book was a #1 bestseller on the lists of USA Today , the LA Times , and the Wall Street Journal . The novel follows the teenage demigod Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon and of a mortal woman. He and other demigods spend their summers at Camp Half-Blood, located in Long Island, NY.

When the novel opens, two sets of Greek gods are at war: the original race of gods, the Titans, versus the Olympians, their descendants. The demigods fight on the side of the Olympians, whose home, Mount Olympus, is located on the 600th floor of the Empire State Building in Manhattan, NY.

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In the first scene of the novel, Percy and his fellow demigod Charles Beckendorf infiltrate Kronos’s ship. The latter is the Titan god of time, and he is leading the fight against the Olympians. Kronos has overtaken the body of Luke Castellan , a demigod who has bathed in the River Styx to become invulnerable. Although Percy and Charles succeed in blowing up the ship, Charles dies before he escapes.

Percy returns to Camp Half-Blood, where he encounters his mentor Chiron (a centaur) and love interest Annabeth Chase (daughter of Athena). The Oracle of Delphi, in the form of a mummified doll, reveals the Great Prophecy—the hero will make a choice to ensure the ultimate success or destruction of Olympus, a choice which will ensure the hero's demise. Although it appears as though Percy is the hero mentioned in the prophecy, the author later reveals that it is Luke. 

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Once deciding to accept the Prophecy, Percy goes on a journey with Nico di Angelo , son of Hades , to learn more about Luke’s background in order to better be able to defeat him. They visit May Castellan , Luke’s mother, who has lost touch with reality. She is a mortal but has the gift of prophecy and tried to take on the role of the new Oracle of Delphi but was cursed.

Percy and Nico next journey to Central Park, which offers a passage to the Underworld. While there, they meet up with Grover Underwood , a satyr and Percy’s best friend. Grover becomes instrumental in helping lead the war efforts. Percy and Nico descend into the Underworld, and Percy bathes in the River Styx, rendering him invulnerable save for a patch on his lower back.

Next, Percy meets his fellow demigods at the Empire State Building. Their main objective is to keep the Titans away from Mount Olympus. They devise a plan to block off all of the entrances to Manhattan, and the various teams disperse. Percy and Annabeth stick together.

The demigods fight several battles against various monsters, such as the Clazmonian Sow, the Lydian pig, and the drakon. They force Kronos’s army back, but the fight wages on. During the battle, Rachel Dare , a mortal with the gift of sight, arrives to tell Percy that he is not the hero in the Prophecy. Rachel is another one of Percy’s love interests.

Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Thalia finally go to Mount Olympus in a last-ditch effort to defend it. The city is crumbling around them, and Kronos has entered the throne room. Percy fights him, and Annabeth speaks to Luke, whose spirit is still present in Kronos. Annabeth and Luke have a history together, and she is able to get him to turn against Kronos and defeat him. Luke uses his own sword to kill Kronos, effectively killing himself. In this way, Luke fulfills the Prophecy.

Everyone returns to Camp Half-Blood to tend to the wounded and give burials to the dead. Rachel becomes the new Oracle of Delphi and tells Percy that they cannot be together. Percy confesses his feelings to Annabeth, and they two become a couple. The book ends as summer draws to a close, and the various demigods leave to go back to school in the normal world.

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Rick Riordan is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, the Kane Chronicles, and the Heroes of Olympus. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning Tres Navarre mystery series for adults.

For fifteen years, Rick taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. In 2002, Saint Mary's Hall honored him with the school's first Master Teacher Award.

While teaching full time, Riordan began writing mystery novels for grownups. His Tres Navarre series went on to win the top three national awards in the mystery genre - the Edgar, the Anthony and the Shamus. Riordan turned to children's fiction when he started The Lightning Thief as a bedtime story for his oldest son.

Today over 35 million copies of his Percy Jackson, Kane Chronicles, and Heroes of Olympus books are in print in the United States, and rights have been sold into more than 35 countries. Rick is also the author of The 39 Clues: The Maze of Bones, another #1 New York Times bestseller.

Rick Riordan now writes full-time. He lives in Boston with his wife and two sons.

Victo Ngai is a Los Angeles-based artist raised in Hong Kong. She is a Forbes 30 Under 30 (Art and Style) honoree, the first Chinese Hamilton King Award Winner, five times Society of Illustrators Gold Medalist and Hugo Award nominee.

Victo's work has often been described as magical realism. Each creation in Victo's world is layered with symbolism and stories that reveal more each time the viewer is engaged. The visual results of her artistic journey take inspiration in part from her Chinese heritage, an art education from the Rhode Island School of Design, a love for classic children's books, and Japanese ukiyo-e.

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Book Review: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

Title: The Last Olympian

Author: Rick Riordan

Series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Camp Half-Blood Chronicles

Publish Date: June 3, 2014 (originally published May 5, 2009)

Publisher: Disney Hyperion Books

Format: Paperback

Goodreads Summary:

All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows.

While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it’s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.

In the momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy’s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.

Review: It should come to no surprise that my first reaction to finishing this was WOW, followed by, “What’s the next book and which shelf did I put it on?”

I realized early on that I hadn’t ever finished this book. In fact, I don’t think I read it when I was younger. I stopped at the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth , because I didn’t want the series to end for me. But let me tell you, it was worth waiting all these years, because it just blew my mind out of the water. (And I totally read it while in training for my new job, since we’re in a holding pattern anyways, and what better way to keep motivated than the final battle between the Olympians and the Titans.

This was a satisfying conclusion to the series. The title refers to Hestia, the Goddess of the Hearth, as she is the only one of the Olympians to stay behind at Olympus. The prophecy refers not to Percy, but to Luke, though both are heroes in the finale of the battle. The Oracle finally moves onto a new host, in this case being Rachel. And of course, Percy and Annabeth finally get together after the final battle.

I was really happy with the pacing of this novel. The story only takes place over a few days, but what is told works. We finally learn the history behind Luke’s family and what caused him to turn his back on his friends. We also learned so much about the choices that Annabeth had to make when she left home, and how this has shaped every decision that she has had to make her entire life. Percy has to make some decisions that could have devastating consequences on both his family and the world, and the book justifies each decision.

Reading these books as an adult has been amazing. I’m seeing things that I would have never picked up on when I first read them, because I was still in the mindset that “Middle Grade books just aren’t that good.” Obviously my opinions have changed in the past several years. And as a finale, this book is solid. It sets up for the next set of books without being too overt or heavy-handed. It’s still a solid ending for people who just don’t want to continue past this book, which is totally fine. (Unlike me, who technically has to keep going. And I am.)

I’m very impressed. And I can’t wait to jump back into this world very soon.

Rating: 5/5

Goodreads Goal 7/52

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“The Last Olympian” By Rick Riordan Review

All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it’s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Tim

This book might be the best book in this wholes series in my opinion because it felt somehow different than the previous books in this series.

I continue to not be the biggest fan of the characters I was in the first 4 books in this series. Because there something in them which doesn’t seem right to me. Of course the characters are very good in this series but I just me being very picky.

My main problem with the characters in this series is that there isn’t character development. They are exactly the same as they were in the beginning of book one.

Of course we get introduced more new characters in this book but it feels like we get the new characters introduced just to forgot about them in the next chapters and for them to never come back again in this series.

When it comes to descriptions there could have been longer and more detailed in my opinion at least.

The writing style here was amazing. To be honest it was probably my favourite thing about this book. In a strange way it made me like this book much more. The writing style in this book must have been the best writing style in this whole series. 

This book have the same problems as the previous books in this series. And the problem is that the action is very slow at the beginning and at the end. And the middle is just confusing because all action is put into 100 pages or less.

So far in this series I feel like there are the same things happening. And that there are the same mistakes made by the main characters which really made me want to bang my head against a tree. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

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Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan Book Review

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian is the fifth and the final book in the series of Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan. It is the sequel to the fourth book Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth. In this book, Percy’s sixteenth birthday is approaching in mere days which means he could save or destroy the world according to the great prophecy. Kronos who is inside Luke’s body is gearing up his armed forces to invade Manhattan to destroy Olympus, while the gods are busy fighting the great typhon. It is now up to Percy Jackson and other half bloods to win this war and save Olympus. Can Percy save Olympus before his whole city crumbles to ruins?

“I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I’d seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It was kind of intimidating. I mean, sure, she’d always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful.”

-Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian.

This book was a perfect sequel to the fourth one. Along the fourth book, we somewhat anticipated that it would come down to the war between Kronos and the demigods. Wasting no time, the book begins with an initiative to delay the attack. Kronos has posed a great distraction to keep the gods busy so that he could invade the city without much effort. Slowing down the now awakened typhon kept most of the gods busy while Poseidon was busy at his own war against the titan Oceanus. With war explained in great detail, this book is a perfect ending to the series.

“He had the head of a Dobermann, but his clawed hands were almost human. He growled and muttered as he tapped on his keyboard. Maybe he was messaging his friends on uglyface.com”

The ability to keep the characters intact was something to note. Many small characters were given importance and a few unexpected ones were given a heroic ending. There were some bittersweet moments that were very much necessary in this final book. Since this war is taking place in Manhattan where Olympus stands, there is a beautiful description of the city with the avenues, the central park and the reservoir. The description paints a picture even to those who hadn’t been to Manhattan before. The author subtly talks about the pollution of Hudson and the East River. This book is like a little reunion of all previous books in this series. The deadly monsters we knew from book one appear in this part and it gives the reader a sense of joy of recognition to those details. This book showed up a positive change in many characters. Even though this book is pretty much all about war, we do not get bored from it. It keeps the reader captivated as to how Kronos would be defeated with so little help. There were pleasant surprises here and there that kept the reader to go on and turn the pages. Many old legends were referred to, in this book like Pandora, Morpheus, Orpheus and we get an even more clear picture of the entire story plot. Small gods like Nemesis, Pompona, Iris, Hecate and several others were also mentioned in this story and their importance was portrayed in a subtle manner. There were some cute advance in relationship between Annabeth and Percy. Rachel Dare from the previous book turns out to be an important character in this book 361 pages of battle and it could be written in a detailed and most interesting way only by Rick Riordan.

“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive”

Rick Riordan is an award winning mystery writer. With his unique story telling ability he captures the attention of young adult readers.

TITLE : PERCY JACKSON AND THE LAST OLYMPIAN.

AUTHOR : RICK RIORDAN

PUBLISHED : 2009

GENRE : Mythology/Young Adult Fiction

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