A review by jenny_librarian
The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
adventurous
emotional
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
I love Rick Riordan’s books. You’d think this being the last of the Olympians double series, I would love it the most. And I do for some of it.
But the way the chapters are arranged bothers me. I feel like a big part of why I couldn’t get 100% invested during the second half of the book is because the author uses “boomerang storytelling”: writing a few chapters from one character’s POV, then going back to the beginning of that timeframe and doing the same for another character that’s somewhere else. It might have been impossible to write otherwise, but that’s probably because by the time he sat to write this book, Riordan had way too many characters in way too many different places.
It’s a great ending nevertheless and I’m looking forward to finally read Trials of Apollo (the reason behind this massive reread I started 2 years ago).
But the way the chapters are arranged bothers me. I feel like a big part of why I couldn’t get 100% invested during the second half of the book is because the author uses “boomerang storytelling”: writing a few chapters from one character’s POV, then going back to the beginning of that timeframe and doing the same for another character that’s somewhere else. It might have been impossible to write otherwise, but that’s probably because by the time he sat to write this book, Riordan had way too many characters in way too many different places.
It’s a great ending
Spoiler
(even though I really couldn’t care less about Leo and Calypso)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
Moderate: Death, Blood, and War