Who doesn’t love a great Mythology fiction book. Greek gods are real and they have kids with mortals who are known as Half-Bloods. The Gods have abandoned most of their children never claiming them and it has made for bitterness amongst many of these children.
A passion for Greek Mythology is something many truly have. It’s hard not to when you study it a lot in school. Most know how great the mythological stories are. As a kid I always wanted to be like Hercules being the son of a Good especially the chief God Zeus always seemed so fun.
Now with these books you get more stories about other children of the Greek Gods. Percy especially is great for me as he is the Son of Poseidon and water is something that I love.
Of course the bitterness has lead to betrayal of the worst kind. Cousins are now fighting cousins or even siblings against each other. The Civil War has started and who will become the victor.
This takes me back to reading about The American Civil War to a point as it was a war were families were divided and you don’t know if the rifts would ever be healed. It shows a great way to storytelling by showing how our past colours the future.
The series is one of my favourites but definitely is more on the juvenile side. It doesn’t take away from the fun of this series that grows with you.
Battle of the Labrynth is the fourth in the series where you see the friends trying to find Daedalus workshop. They must find it before Luke does as he looks for ways to destroy the Greek Gods.
I like meeting Rachel as she is a mortal with nothing to really protect her from the enemies of Camp Half-Blood. She still does extremely dangerous tasks to help those in need. In many ways she is the true Hero as she does this with no real protection or power.
Ethan was a cool character and I love the revenge aspect of his whole being. It shows a lot about his character that even the best souls can be turned or manipulated to do bad things, especially when you have The King of all Titans Kronos trying to destroy everything you hold dear.
The story itself was very good even if it did have a very simple way of telling it. Then again sometimes simple is better. The more convoluted a story gets the more you get away from what matters the most.
This is a wonderful book and really makes up for the okayness of the third book which didn’t for me add that much to the story
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