Not my favorite in this series, but once again, Rick knows how to tell a story and do it amazingly well. Everything in this book was vivid as hell and so easy to imagine. The battle with the Gods was epic and I loved it. It felt a little rushed towards the end which left me feeling like it was just a tad anticlimactic – mainly the part with Gaea. I’m happy with where the characters end up and how everything happened. Overall this was a satisfying end to this series – I get the hype. Heroes, gods, and monsters all have a role to play in the climactic fulfillment of the prophecy in The Blood of Olympus, the electrifying finale of the best-selling Heroes of Olympus series. Piper must learn to give herself over to fear. Only then will she be able to do her part at the end: utter a single word. All of them know that one of the Seven has to die in order to defeat Gaea, the Earth Mother. Leo fears that his plan won’t work, that his friends might interfere. Will she have enough strength to succeed, especially with a deadly hunter on her trail? But she can’t allow them to distract her from getting the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood before war breaks out between the Romans and Greeks. Reyna fears the ghosts of her ancestors, who radiate anger. He will complete his line of the prophecy: To storm or fire the world must fall. He may not know how he is going to prove himself as a leader, but he does know that he will not break promises like she did. Jason’s ghost is his mother, who abandoned him when he was little. But that might be better than the alternative: allowing someone else to die, as Hades foretold. Nico may actually become a ghost if he has to shadow-travel with Reyna and Coach Hedge one more time. Going through the House of Hades would stir the demigods’ worst memories.

The blood of olympus books in order