Heroes of Olympus: The Demigod Diaries:

As you will probably know if read my blog I'm obsessed with everything to do with Percy Jackson. Then I my family got me this book which is full of short stories before the Heroes of Olympus series took place. There are mainly four short stories so I'm going to divide them into two post.

Diary of Luke Castellan:

This one was really cool because it told you more of a backstory of what happened to Luke, Thalia and Annabeth before they got to Camp Half-Blood. Which is something I have been wondering since Annabeth mentioned it in the Percy Jackson series. Also, you got a backstory to how Thalia got Aegis and at what cost. Aegis was one of my favourite weapons in these series because it just struck me as the most practical weapon and one I wouldn't mind having. Percy has to uncap a pen, Jason has to flip a coin but Thalia just has to say the name of her shield and she has it ready in her hand.Lastly, you get to know why Luke hated the Gods so much. I really didn't like Luke's character because he was of course the bad guy that betrayed his friends for power. But in the short story you get to see the reasons why he hated the Gods and to be fair he had a point. I thought the shot stories were just going to be what happened after Percy Jackson and before Heroes of Olympus. I never thought they would tell you more things about the characters and why they became who they are.

Percy Jackson and the Staff of Hermes:

This one is one the funnier stories with plenty of funny comments from Percy. I know I mention funny comments a lot but I love a book that can make me laugh. It's one of the things I always find in my favourite books. In this one you can really see the rivalry between Annabeth and Hermes. Which is not a thing I thought I was going to say considering it's a rivalry between a God and a demigod but it's true there is a rivalry there. Also, I love the characters George and Martha they make me laugh every time they appear in the books. Sadly, they don't appear very often as they are always with Hermes and I think they were only in the Percy Jackson books once. So it was nice to see them even though I probably won't see them any time soon.

Thanks for reading and I'll see you in the next post.

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Photography #5

This is going to be one of my shorter photography because forgetful me forgot to put a memory card into my camera. Also, if you're wondering where these are I was at Blenheim Palace. So here you go these are all the photos I could take:

 Thanks for reading I guess and I'll see you next post.

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Heroes of Olympus: The Blood of Olympus book review:

I thought that after this book I was going to have to say goodbye to the Percy Jackson world and I was devastated. These are my favourite books by far. They're a mixture of everything I love: mythology, action, adventure and a bit of magic. I feel like I've grown to know these characters and they're like distance relative you don't see often but know will always be there for you. However, this isn't the end. There is another book called Trials of Apollo. This book is about Apollo turning human as a punishment and has to go to Camo Half-Blood to keep safe. If you knew about this book while reading Blood of Olympus you could see what was going to happen and I'm really excited to see what happens so you'll definitely see the Trials of Apollo on this blog at some point. 

   In this book, I didn't realise how much I missed Percy's humour. Since in the last book he didn't have very many happy moments you missed all his funny comments. Leo is just as funny maybe even more so but you can't help but miss Percy. What I would love is a short story where Leo and Percy face a weird looking monster and defeat it with silly comments. That would make my day. 

   One thing I have loved a lot in this book is the bromance between Percy and Jason. It's even better since their Godly parents disagree with each other over everything. It just adds to it in my opinion. Percy must be a rebel in the God's eyes as his girlfriend is the daughter of a God his dad doesn't see eye to eye with and the same with Jason. Also, the way he treated the Gods after the battle of Manhattan. They are one of the most epic bromances but a close second is Frank and Leo. I never think I would say they is a bromance between Frank and Leo but there really is. 

One of the newest characters is Hylla. Just the fact that she punched a wolf and lifted a car and threw it as a weapon is undeniably cool. Also, the alliance between the Hunter of Artemis and the Amazons is amazing. That  is all I'm going to say because as you can tell I think this is a great book and don't want to ruin it in the slightest. 

Thanks for reading. I'm really excited about the Trials of Apollo and I'll see you next post. 

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Heroes of Olympus: The House of Hades book review:

I didn't realise how much I loved Rick's little jokes until I saw the note he made at the start of this one. In the last post I told you about how there was a really good/bad ending. Well Rick must have felt like an evil mastermind because:

This really made me laugh when I first saw it and it started the in a funny way. 

   One character I do feel sorry for is Leo. Everyone else on the Argo II has a girlfriend/boyfriend however as there are seven of them on the boat Leo doesn't. I'm not saying that you need a girlfriend or boyfriend to be happy however everyone else goes off with their other half while is Leo is left with Coach Hedge who always talks about killing and who also has a girlfriend of his own. Also, Leo always finds a way to blame himself for everything bad that happens. Even when it's the smallest thing that he could have done he'll blame himself for everything. The worst part is that he has nobody to talk to. Everyone sort goes off in pairs and forgets that Leo might need someone too. 

   One thing I did love about this book in the new settings. (If you haven't read the books before this yet then skip this paragraph to miss the spoiler.) Since no demigods have been to Tartarus we've never had a description of the place. However, now Percy and Annabeth are there we finally know what it's like there. Also, because of Percy being there you can guarantee that there are going to be some laughs. The fact that a demigods is in the worst part of the underworld where even Hades can't go and he made another demigod laugh should be a near impossible thing to do. Yet with is being Percy he still does it. 

I love the idea of different narrators as this helps both sides of the story progress when the characters get split up. This also create cliffhangers when the narrator changes which keeps me really interested in the books. 

Thanks for reading and I'll see you in the next post.

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Heroes of Olympus: The Mark of Athena book review:

I have a real love hate relationship with this book. It's brilliant in every aspect apart from the ending. If you ask anyone I know they will tell you I don't cry very often and it's usually over big things. However, I still cried at the ending of this book. I won't tell you any more about the ending and this isn't a spoiler because anything could happen and it's not necessary a sad thing that happens. It was a really great ending though.
   But anyway, this one was really different to the other two books. You still learnt about the characters but you learn as they face problems and figure out problems with each other. This was great as it kept the plot going as you learned about all the characters backstories.
    Also, I like the fact that some of the monsters they faced came back to get them because that has never happened before. It also made it more realistic a because if demigods were real that would happen a lot.

I can't wait to read the last two books and this and Percy Jackson really are my favourite series.

Thanks for reading and I'll you next post.

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