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The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan, ISBN 978-1-4231-0147-5, Disney-Hyperion Books, review by ellen george
If you haven't read the complete Percy Jackson series, give yourself a treat and read them - The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, and The Battle of the Labyrinth. The series concludes with this book, The Last Olympian.
At first I was bummed that The Last Olympian was going to be the final chapter of Percy Jackson and his demi-god friends.
Until...I read the Riordan's acknowledgements page of the book..."As the first Camp Half-Blood series draws to a close, I have so many people to thank."
That sentence from Rick Riordan seems to hint there will be more Camp Half-Blood adventures featuring more demi-gods coming to camp - hopefully Percy and friends will be part of them, but this gives me hope.
The last book of THIS series of books was a non-stop adventure between the kid demi-gods, the gods who are their parents, the Camp Half-Blood, (where the kids go to prepare themselves as demi-gods), and the Titan army - the Titans wanting to overthrow Zeus and the Pantheon - they are moving towards NYC to go up the Empire State Bldg, where Mt. Olympus is hanging way up above it.
The conflicts from all the books, the mythological creatures featured, and the maturing of the characters we have come to love has been masterful. Riordan has done his mythological homework in this series - I am Greek and have studied mythology, and can speak and read Greek, and the wording of the Greek and translations were spot on.
With Percy Jackson, Riordan has brought all things good about the Olympians that the gods and goddesses have seemed to forget - integrity, honor, bravery.
The true reason the Titans got such a big army was from dissatisfied demi-gods who were mistreated and lesser gods who felt they had no sayso in the Pantheon.
It sometimes takes a child to point the way. Percy Jackson is the embodiment of all that is classic mythology and he and his friends from Camp Half-Blood lead the way towards honor.
If Riordan isn't Greek, to me he's an honorary one!
I look forward to more Camp Half-Blood adventures - with new kids born of gods and goddesses with mortals. And those frisky gods, you know there will be plenty of them!
This series, and particularly this book in such detail integrates all the myths and gods, creatures and legends - it is mind boggling. But such great fun! Riordon's imagination is stunning!
This is one series that is best read from book 1 on - and what fun that is.
Fantastic read and fantastic series for kids of all ages!
ellen george
The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan, ISBN 978-1-4231-0147-5, Disney-Hyperion Books, review by ellen george
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