Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian Book Review

A little late, probably very short, but nonetheless very well-deserved, here is the review for the final book in the PJO series. (I'm too lazy for full names.) My vacation has unofficially started and I'm already more productive in writing than ever. That being said, I really want to get back to either reading The Lost Hero or writing my story. Still, I feel like I can't let this book pass without a review, so here you go.

Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

Title: The Last Olympian

Author: Rick Riordan

Series: Percy Jackson and the Olympians #5

Pages: 381

Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children

Publishing date: May 5th, 2009

Rating: 5 stars

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Previous reviews: the Lightning Thie, the Sea of Monsters, the Titan's Curse, the Battle of the Labyrinth

Okay, this book completely blew my mind. I think it's an amazing finale for this series and that's definitely not an easy thing to write. The final book in a series is often disliked and because of all the high expectation, people get disappointed a million times easier. However, similar to miss J.K. Rowling, Rick Riordan knows exactly how to write a satisfactory last installment.

I'd say about 60% of this book is the epic battle. This doesn't ever really bother me because well-written battle scenes can really engage the reader and they're just incredibly entertaining. Sadly, some books put all their eggs in that one basket, which leads to, well, a finale that lacks finality regarding aspects like plot, character building, and the emotional attachment to the story.

Of course, Rick nailed even those things in the other 40%.

This book brings back all the older characters and revisits old locations and stories like a last book is meant to do, but it also introduces new characters. One of those newcomers is Hestia, my favorite Greek Goddess. Another character I really liked is Prometheus.

As every Rick Riordan story book thus far seems to do, the book parallels with multiple Greek myths, and I loved them yet again.

I really can't think of complaints towards The Last Olympian that I didn't issue already, so here are some things I think improved over the story:

1. Complexity of the plot.
2. Cohesiveness of the plot.
3. Fight scenes.
4. Father-son relationship between Poseidon and Percy, which has always fascinated me.
5. Percabeth. (Can't leave that one alone, can I?)

So this was my incredibly brief list of praise for TLO. I hope you enjoyed it and to see you next time.

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