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The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

18 reviews

onefineelephant's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

9/10. I love this book, especially the insights into Nico and Reyna. As with the rest of the books in this series, I love the alternating POVs of the characters. I love seeing the seven of the prophecy get even closer together (people say they have coworker vibes but I feel close friends or even family vibes from them.) I also adore that we finally get to see Nico becoming friends with Will Solace! The only slightly negative thing I would say is that I didn't love that the final battles between gods + demigods and giants and the one between Gaea and the demigods were pretty short. I also wish that the final battles were in someone else's POV instead of Jason. Overall, good ending to the series but not great ending with the openness of what happened with Leo and Calypso. I wish we had gotten some more confirmation as to what  really happened with them after they left Ogygia. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Blood, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

natashalg's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

I loved seeing Nico's POV and how he's slowly learning to accept love and friendship. I think his (and Leo's) POV were the best in the book. I loved the story, but there were too many questions left unanswered for it to be the "end" of the series. I know the characters appear in later books, but I wish the story was more concluded for the last book in a series. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the series and book, but I am deducting half a star for the unanswered questions I have. I feel like they were unanswered to make the reader continue reading the author's other series (unlike the PJ series which concluded nicely, but still left room for Percy's later adventures - i.e. you could stop there and feel like you're not missing anything which can't be said about the HOO series)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse

brynn_books's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book would have been better with a percabeth narration smh. This ending just felt... slightly... underwhelming to me. It was like all of this buildup and the payoff was... not great. Still a great series overall tho

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

booklov3r5019's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

A great book to end a great series. I loved every single book in Heroes of Olympus, and this one is no exception. While House of Hades was really quite sad and emotionally traumatising, it was still so so so good. The Blood of Olympus was amazing, and I loved how they even included a different ending that was written by a fan of the series. I know some people don't like Caleo, but I personally think that they're really cute, so the ending was quite satisfactory and SO CUTE! Anyway, that's my opinion on this. So . . . bye! Lol

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

I was really worried when

it made it seem like Leo died

at the end, but, obviously that wasn't the case. And I'm pretty sure I did a little happy dance when

the gods ended up coming and helping the Seven fight with the monsters and close the Doors of Death

but I can't really remember because, like I said in my reviews of the other books, I've been in a reading slump for forever so it took me, like, a month to read every book after SoN. But, anyway, it was really good lol.

elliott_the_clementine's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment

theintrovertsbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Infidelity, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

_ren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Chronic illness, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcohol

kathrynleereads's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I knew before starting The Blood of Olympus that I wasn’t ready for it, and boy was I right. Rick Riordan has an insane talent for twisting ancient myths and fitting them into the modern world in ways that just make sense.

In the Blood of Olympus, the crew of the Argo II, now reunited with Percy and Annabeth, are determined to make their way to Athens, where they hope to overthrow Gaia and the giants. 

As they traipse across the Mediterranean, Percy, Annabeth, Leo, Piper, Jason, Hazel, and Frank encounter both monsters and mortals, and Riordan somehow manages to bend every instance of both to suit the story.

The true underlying theme in the Blood of Olympus is, undoubtedly, found family. It’s shown through Leo, who feels like a seventh wheel. Through Hazel, who sometimes feels like she’s stuck in the wrong time. Through Nico, who is stubbornly determined to not call either camp his home. Through Reyna, who fears she might be outcast by the Romans for breaking their most sacred law.

The best thing that could have come out of the Blood of Olympus, no matter the outcome of the war, is that at the end of the day, the little group of demigods, no matter Greek or Roman, are together.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

chronicacademia's review against another edition

adventurous funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Racism, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

daniellekat's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.25

I feel let down by this. I can't really put my finger on what I didn't enjoy, but this was the only book that felt forgettable to me. Most of this score is for Nico & Reyna's POVs (I NEED MORE) but otherwise the whole book was kinda meh.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Blood