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[mmichelle]

I don't wish to be melodramatic, but I just finished The Mark of Athena (if you do not know what that is then YOU NEED TO GET OFFLINE AND GO READ SOME PERCY JACKSON, FRIEND) and I cried like a baby. One of my friends (who I got hooked on the PJ boks in the first place MOO HA HA HAAA) actually WARNED me that the ending was intense because she

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[anemonerose]

The ending broke my heart into lots of little pieces. But Leo's determination to fix everything made it slightly better; I really loved Leo in this book. ♥

[mmichelle]

I like Leo a lot. I think he is my favorite of the new five, though I'm a fan of Hazel's as well. Plus Leo being all awesome distracted me from how fucking annoying Piper was; I thought she was a bit annoying in The Lost Hero but it was more understandable to me then how insecure she was; but now she and Jason ARE DATING, so I do not understand why she has no self-confidence. Ugh. Also, I hope Jason is one of the narrators in House of Hades - I liked him in Lost Hero but I thought he was hella bland in this one, and hearing about him mainly from Piper doesn't help things.

Honestly when I finished the end I was glad I'd had this weird delay reading it because now I only have ten months to wait instead of twelve; I remember when I finished The Son of Neptune like the day after it came out last year I actually threw my book on the floor I was so frustrated. So this was an improvement over that. SIGH. THESE GODDAMN BOOKS.

[anemonerose]

I agree about Jason. I think he has a great sense of humor and I definitely enjoyed his narration in TLH; hopefully we'll get more of that Jason and less of MoA Jason. And agreed about Piper; she had moments of awesome that were totally undone by her infatuation with Jason. I really would LOVE a Nico pov in the next book (the book IS named after his dad, after all), but I guess we'll have to wait and see.

I still need to read The Serpent's Shadow, and while that's not Percy, it IS Riordan, so hopefully it will help tide me over until October. I also need to read The Demigod Diaries, which has a classic first-person Percy story that I'm definitely looking forward to.

[mmichelle]

I am totes okay with Piper when she is being described by someone else; it's only when I have to actually be inside her head that she drives me nuts. This was true in TLH, and a thousand times more true in MoA.

Also, I'm going to the library to get the Demigod Diaries today! I saw someone talking about the Percy story in it the other day so I was like, I must read this. Also...I am pondering reading Riordan's Egyptian books. One of my friends told me she didn't like them at all, but then I was at a bar with a bunch of my library school friends on Friday and we somehow got into a Percy Jackson discussion (because apparently half of the people I know in library school love PJO, which clearly shows I have chosen the right future for myself) and a couple of them told me they thought the Egyptian books were pretty enjoyable, so I might give them a shot at some point.