As the 'The Heroes of Olympus' series goes on, and two famous demigod heroes from both the Greek and the Roman sides meet as friends, there's bound to be a few scuffles. And it only makes it worse that there's two leaders among the group- both have personalities of leadership and are both very used to being the people looked up to for directions. Will the group end up splitting into two?
As the famous Percy Jackson comes together with the Group of Seven, its necessary for them to work together. But in the world of demigods, where there is Gaea looking at them every step of the way, it's not an easy thing to do. Keeping it together is hard enough. But keeping it together and working together is a near impossible task with an Argo II full of ADHD demigods. Even with Percy and Jason. Especially with Percy and Jason.
The Mark of Athena is told mostly in Annabeth's point of view, starting with them landing in the Roman camp and finding Percy as Praetor. Her thoughts on how her Seaweed Brain may have changed, and how he may have decided that he doesn't need friends anymore. She's frankly scared about him, how they will get along, and most of all, her mother's last gift and command: 'Follow the Mark of Athena. Avenge me. ' Freaky, huh? Why couldn't their parents ever by normal? Well, they're gods. I guess they shouldn't be 'normal'. Whatever that is. With a son of Poseidon and a son of Jupiter leading the way, and them being from the Greeks and the Romans, they are indefinitely about to clash. After all, never put lighting and water together. They are like putting a Mentos in Cola. Explosive.
When they arrive into the Roman camp, it all goes downhill from there. From Reyna, to Octavian, to Leo's warship, to the weird-possessive spirits, it seems that some people get all the bad luck. And that, would be the demigods. But all in all, they have to heard to work together- they need to work together to save the world. Will they be able to pull their act together to be in time to save Gaea from arising and save the world, again?
Rick Riordan wrote another comical and entertaining fast-paced adventure story with suspense and comic relief. As the bestseller of the Percy Jackson series, he continues to entertain youth and teens alike with a fictional book mixed with lots of mythology- now both Greek and Roman. With the Greeks and Roman sides of everything, this book is a great read and an awesome opportunity to memorize myths like drinking water. Easily.
*** I give this book a 8.5 out of 10. It was really great, but I think that it started getting a little too soppy with romance on Percy and Annabeth in my point of view. I totally think that Percy and Annabeth are a great pairing, but they started to get a bit soppy, in my point of view.***
