The Blood Of Olympus

THE BLOOD OF OLYMPUS

  

      Last week I started reading the book The Blood of Olympus, by Rick Riordan. It is  kind of hard to explain what this book is about because this is the 5th and last book in the series, so to understand this book, you will have to go through books 1-4. But if you are a mythology 'fan' then you might be able to get it.

      

      The book is about Jason, Percy, Hazel, Frank, Piper, Anabeth, Nico, Reyna and their Satyr coach, going on a journey to save the world. Gaea, the goddess of Earth( She makes up all of Earth) is waking and she wants to consume the entire world and wipe out all humans, gods and demi-gods in the process. But she has sent out messengers that give false information to the Gods, she tells them that if they join her, she will spare their lives and let them live. This is just a lie though, her real intentions are to kill every single thing on Earth. Now, if you have read these books, you will know that the Roman and Greek sides of all of the Gods and the camps are fighting, so to make peace, Reyna, Nico and Coach transport the Athena statue that was stolen by the Roman, and they plan to return it to the Greek Camp. 

      While this is happening, the rest of the crew, travels to Sparta and fights the messengers of Gaea. Unfortunately, they awaken Gaea during this process. So, the gods are fighting each other, the two camps are about to go to war, and the statue has still not been delivered as a symbol of treaty. Above all of this, Gaea is a god and you need a demi-god and a god to kill another god. But here's the problem, the gods aren't allowed to help the demi-gods. If this wasn't enough, Gaea is rising but the crew in Sparta has to help fight, but their ship is nearly destroyed, which means they can't get there! 

Over all this books is an AMAZING read, I would definitely suggest all of you to read the book, but don't read it before you read the previous books. There are numerous cliff hangers in this books and you will not want to put this books down!   

"To Be Or Not To Be..."

     Last week I finished Hamlet! Although it wasn't a very long book, it sure was a tedious one. I have read many other books that were incredibly long, for example the Heroes of Olympus series, but this book took a long time to read and comprehend as I went along. 

SPOILER ALERT***

     The book gets incredibly boring and slow during the middle. This book is about a Prince of Denmark who later finds out that his uncle was the murderer of his father. In the middle; as I mentioned already was boring. The book really side-tracked and didn't come back onto the topic of  vengeance until around ACT 4.

     In the middle of the book, what occurred was, Hamlet was sad because of an unknown reason. Which was thought to be because of his rejection by Ophelia. But later one could infer that the root of his sorrow was the death of his father. So just as a was to get back at his uncle and to reveal his secret in front of everybody, Hamlet came up with a unique idea. Later in the week, a play was to take place to amuse the King, Queen and all of Denmark. Instead of showing what was to be shown, he asked the actors to change the play and show his story instead.  When they did this, it really got to the King. He started sweating and stormed out embarrassed. He was in a very agitated mood for the rest of the book.

     I won't describe the entire story, so I will just skip to the ending... i.e. the good part! The king and the Prince of Norway (he comes in later because Ophelia had committed suicide and he blamed Hamlet for his daughter's death) and they poison Hamlets drink. He senses it and they duel. Hamlet kills his Uncle, and the Prince of Norway! But unfortunately his mother had also died. She drank Hamlet's poisoned drink unknowingly. Here's the sad part... Hamlet dies too. :-(

     Over all this book was an incredible read. You just have to give it a chance and be open-minded to reading a different/unique piece of text. I would give this book 4.5 stars out 5.