![]() I think there’s a lot of character-service in this book, a lot more than has been in any of his other books-which only increases my certainty that the next book is going to be gloomy and dark. Really, I’m sure that most of the sluggishness of the plot grows out of Riordan’s desire to allow his characters some time to just enjoy one another’s company before the major bad hits. I wonder if Riordan’s ambivalence towards Nico partially detracted from the urgency of the plot. ![]() I’m not sure that Riordan is as much a fan of his, given the reserve, coolness, and “mixed feelings” that Percy, Annabeth, Jason, and Leo feel towards him (also the illustration of him that I assume that Riordan must have approved is not at all how I picture Nico he’s far more bad-boy attractive in my head, looking actually a little something like Riordan’s approved illustration of Anubis but more dangerous). I wanted him rescued just because I was going to be really upset if he died (that he is important to the success of saving the world is only an upside to saving him for me). This book lacked the urgency of Rick Riordan’s other books-perhaps even all of his other books (minus the guidebook companions-though it ought to have been as compelling as the quest still had a solid expiration date and dire consequences if it failed. I have rarely come across so sweet and yet still believable a relationship (Cammon and Amalie’s from Sharon Shinn’s Reader and Raelynx still surpasses Percy and Annabeth’s, but Reader and Raelynx is more primarily a romance than The Mark of Athena is primarily a romance). Percy and Annabeth’s romantic relationship may actually be the real highlight of Rick Riordan’s latest book, the third in the Heroes of Olympus series, The Mark of Athena.
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