Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series #5. All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of a victory are grim. Kronos’s army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan’s power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it’s up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time. In this momentous final book in the New York Times best-selling series, the long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy’s sixteenth birthday unfolds. And as the battle for Western civilization rages on the streets of Manhattan, Percy faces a terrifying suspicion that he may be fighting against his own fate.
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The Last Olympian
By: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
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I had it on reserve at the bookstore. And then I got the e-mail that it was there, waiting for me to come and get it and read it. I rushed over and grabbed my copy of THE LAST OLYMPIAN, the final book in the PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS series, and that night I went home and devoured the thing. I went into it thinking, “Okay, I know this is the last one, and Rick Riordan has been amazing with his plot twists and characters, how can this one really live up to everything and just blast it all out of the water? Maybe he’ll have lost his touch after five books.” And then, as I was reading, I was not disappointed. Riordan delivered. And he delivered good. THE LAST OLYMPIAN was a blasting ride into one of the most inventive uses of Greek mythology ever.
The story picks up right where THE BATTLE FOR THE LABYRINTH stopped, and I must say, you’ve got to read the first four books before you come to this. I would even say you need to read the short story about Percy Jackson and Hades in THE DEMIGOD FILES to really get the full picture of everything. All that said, this, the fifth book jumps right in and gets going. The world is at the edge of its civilization. Kronos has mobilized his plans and his forces, and now everything is going to come down to a battle to the finish to see whether the Great Prophecy about Percy Jackson is fulfilled: Will he save Mount Olympus? Or will he end up helping it be destroyed? Either way, Percy Jackson is dead.
This had to be the most action-packed book in the series. The whole thing was an amazingly huge battle with all different kinds of monsters, demigods, titans, and gods fighting it out over Olympus. Riordan is at his top form here — he always excels at action scenes, and things run along so smoothly here, it’s hard to keep up sometimes. I kept flipping pages so fast I didn’t even check the page count (as I usually do). The plot twists kept coming, and I kept finding myself gasping out loud at each new turn. And, my ultimate test for any book: I got goosebumps twice during THE LAST OLYMPIAN.
And Riordan doesn’t leave off on characterization. Percy Jackson still has ways to grow — and the themes that Riordan pulls out are amazing. All of his characters grow in different ways this book, and you finally find out the mysteries surrounding so many of them: Luke, Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, Nico, and even Rachel Elizabeth Dare.
The one thing I am glad to say is that even though these books have ended, at the very end of the book, in the Acknowledgments, Riordan says, “As the first Camp Half-Blood series draws to a close…” which makes me believe that there will be more to come from Riordan based on this world he’s created and revamped.
All in all, there couldn’t be a better series of books to spend time on. (It rivals Harry for sure… I might even like Percy Jackson better…) Don’t miss out. Read these books. You won’t be sorry. And if you are… well… there are special places in the Underworld for you.