Pure entertainment.Īpollo is the Gilderoy Lockhart of this world and it is hilarious. But this mostly stood out to me as being the funniest book Riordan has written and that's really saying something, given that all his books are defined by his trademark snarky humour. You don't get to be an old god like Apollo without making a LOT of enemies. Of course, there's a whole lot of godly drama going on too. Is anything sadder than the sound of a god hitting a pile of garbage bags? Imagine his horror when he discovers that not only is he human, but he also has acne and flab. Truly, this book is so refreshing! Apollo doesn't even pretend he's a do-gooder in fact, it's clear from the beginning that he's out for himself and views humans as 'meat sacks'.

His voice, however, not to mention his snark and humour, are that of a selfish, narcissistic, hilarious asshole. But he's actually an age-old immortal who has been cast out of Olympus by Zeus and turned into a regular human teenager. Apollo stands out because he is not a teenage boy. Magnus Chase could just as easily have been Percy Jackson.īUT then RR had to throw Apollo into the mix. The conflicts were similar and the teen 'voices' had begun to blend into one. to take a step back from these books about Greek, Roman and Egyptian gods.

I was actually disappointed with his last one - The Sword of Summer - and I began to question in my review if it was finally time for Mr. Zeus needed someone to blame, so of course he’d picked the handsomest, most talented, most popular god in the pantheon: me.

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