The last Olympian

Percy Jackson

381 pages

English language

Published Oct. 16, 2009 by Scholastic Inc..

ISBN:
978-0-545-79905-8
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OCLC Number:
893629294

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5 stars (1 review)

Percy Jackson and his army of young demigods do battle with Kronos on the streets of Manhattan as Percy's sixteenth birthday approaches and his fate looms even closer.

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Riordan Tops Himself Again

5 stars

Again, Riordan improved on his previous novel. This book is the best in the series, and they were all good.

Like the previous one, this one moves at a blinding pace. It’s one battle after another with short bits of character development in between. I was surprised at the length of the falling action. The book didn’t end with the abrupt post-battle, “Go celebrate! That’s all folks” short chapter. The book actually has three chapters after the battle, and Riordan does a nice job of tying up the various dangling threads.

The love triangle is finally resolved; although, it seemed pretty obvious where that was going early in the novel. Nonetheless, the tension was fun. I can’t really discuss what I liked about the ending without significant spoilers, so I will have to be satisfied by saying I really liked that everyone had a place in the final battle and …

Subjects

  • Teenage boys
  • Mothers
  • Greek Mythology
  • Juvenile fiction
  • School Library Journal Best Book of the Year (2005)
  • Quests (Expeditions)
  • Fathers and sons
  • Teenagers
  • Prophecies
  • Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • Dyslexics
  • Camps
  • Friendship
  • Single mothers

Places

  • United States