Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and Olympians: The Last Olympian

Rick Riordan ***** (5/5)

Reviewed by Joanna L.

      Most teenagers are usually anxious for their sixteenth birthday to arrive because turning16 usually means a new car, more freedom and more popularity. Everyone… except Percy Jackson. Percy Jackson is a “troubled” soon-to-be demigod who’s getting prepared to face the words of The Great Prophecy, a prophecy speaking of the falling of a great hero. Percy and his remaining demigod allies must be ready to face the challenge of fighting an angered titan Lord and an army of vicious monsters and brainwashed demigods. Throughout the story, Percy not only has to defend Manhattan, he must also encounter the intertwined pasts of his close friend and a traitor that could very well give new meaning to the words of the Great Prophecy and the fate of the whole world.

     I would recommend this book to anyone that finds Greek mythology interesting since this book is pretty much a bunch of Greek myths together with the setting being modern New York. That’s the part of the reason I really enjoyed this book, because it has many Greek myth references and yet it’s still whole other different story with its own protagonists and plot.

I would also recommend this book to anyone looking for a great adventure book or anyone is simply looking for an entertaining book to read. I love how it’s filled with adventure and tense encounters and Percy’s great sense of humor never fails to make me smile.

     The author really makes the reader think about deep things besides warfare and fighting. This story made me think about how we never see the wonderful value of the things and people we have around us and how sometimes we’re too arrogant to realize that we are hurting the people we love most with our ignorance. Another thing it made me think of was the great power of promises and how a few words can really bind us to certain people.

     Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Last Olympian was different from other fantasy books because it was deeper and the plot was sort of complex because so many different things were going on as the story went on, like “flashbacks” and “demigod dreams” (demigod dreams were usually dark dreams about what was happening as the dreamer slept and also about what was going to happen.) For these reasons, it really reminded me of The Odyssey because The Odyssey is a very complex epic full of flashbacks and other features that were also in the The Last Olympian

Honorable Mentions:

Mara: Daughter of The Nile by Eloise McGraw

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan