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"ppl in this fandom overreact when someone so much as breathes on Percy-"
I'm sorry, my favourite 16/17 year old has been tortured half to death TWICE in the last 12 months, and no one, not a single character protected him, checked in with him emotionally afterward or provided any type of medical aid. no one. instead he's blamed to defending himself in the only possible way he could've, and HIS TORMENTORS are comforted right in front of him, BY HIS LOVED ONES.
yeah I think this calls for a bit of an extreme reaction, don't you think?
I absolutely love your posts about Percy Jackson and disability, especially by mentioning he'd make a good writer. Specifically, if he took some marine biology courses, he'd not like it all since it's actually a pretty difficult class and may or may not ask him to dissect marine life. Also, Rick's recon about the college stitaution is asinine. At that rate, make Percy do self-paced online/correspondence courses than that.
I totally agree - with New Rome University's original intention and the way it's set up, it makes sense for Percy to pursue that specifically, and particularly to be the one who wants to go there and suggesting it to Annabeth, because it's set up to be an accessible college geared towards disabled students. But now it a.) apparently isn't it's own legitimate college and requires classes outside of NRU, which completely defeats the point of it being Percy's ideal option entirely because he didn't think he'd be able to take standard college courses BECAUSE of his disability/being a demigod (which for purposes of the metaphor are the same thing) (and implies accessible schooling is less legitimate) AND b.) is coded as straight up being discriminatory towards Percy! By denying him access for something beyond his control unless he jumps through a bunch of hoops (very analogous to ableist discrimination)! WHICH AGAIN DEFEATS THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF NRU BEING A THING IN THE NARRATIVE! Because why suddenly flip from the accessible college to the college being explicitly ableist???
But yeah, I don't think Percy would be particularly fond of marine biology classes - adhd brains are not great at sitting through slow lectures of information they already know, so if Percy is taking those classes because he already has familiarity with marine biology from his powers then he's gonna have an awful time. And then like you mentioned the requirements of the class are probably not well suited to him.
i have so much to say abt chalice of the gods so im just gonna copy paste my review from goodreads here. you can also read it on goodreads
ok. i promised i would hate this book. and i do. i hate this book. i also hate rick riordan. in addition, i hate capitalism. i promise thatās relevant.
letās talk about the book now. iāll cover the things i love first. i love percy jackson. i love grover. i love annabeth. i love sally. i love paul. i love percy annabeth and grover together. all of these things are very obvious and self-explanatory. percy is hands down THE main character of all time. i have nothing bad to say about him. his literal fatal flaw is loyalty. heās actually perfect and has no flaws. this is expected from the son of sally jackson, the perfect person. paul is sweet and kind to sally and thatās really all that matters. annabeth is awesome and supportive and so is grover and theyāre all besties forever. you get it. youāve read percy jackson.
the jokes are better than before. there are definitely some legitimately funny jokes in this book, which i was really missing from the last few rick riordan installments. and i donāt think this is because rick suddenly got funnier. i think itās because this style of joke works for percy. of all of rickās protagonists, percy seems the most natural fit for these jokes.
sally is great. grover and annabeth are generally on form. so is percy, as much as can be expected from rick riordan at this point. i will elaborate on this later.
now to complain. this is the stupidest premise iāve ever heard of. percy is a high school senior. he is going to go to new rome university. he needs 3 divine recommendations. this is already a stupid premise but donāt worry, it gets worse. poseidon reveals that the reason percy needs these recommendations is that itās a special requirement for him specifically made by zeus. and the reason he gets to have this stupid requirement is that heās a child of the big three and shouldnāt exist.
hello. zeus. yes, lord zeus, itās me. alexis.
what the absolute FUCK are you saying.
this doesnāt MAKE SENSE. the only reason percy shouldnāt have existed was that the gods had a stupid pact to not have any kids because of a stupid prophecy. two things here. one - that prophecy is OVER. everything turned out fine. thanks to percy jackson. youāre welcome, gods of olympus. two - percy has literally saved olympus TWICE now. two times. this is genuinely such a dumb and made up reason to send percy on a quest that i canāt even turn my brain off and enjoy it. itās not fun. leave percy alone. LEAVE HIM ALONE.
itās literally insane how stupid this setup is. rick keeps writing books about how the gods are horrible and take advantage of the demigods and the demigods live terrible lives. in this book, percy has LITERALLY saved olympus TWICE and motherfucking zeus (literally) had to be talked down from making him get 25 letters of recommendation to 3. this is AFTER percy spent 3 years in pjo almost being killed and got his memory wiped for 6-8 months depending on which book you read in hoo and then got sent on a quest to save the entire world AGAIN. this CHILD got like a 2-4 month break (depending on which book youāre reading) and he woke up with no fucking memory and had to spend like 2 more months fighting monsters and the literal primordial earth goddess. and now he has to go on literally pointless quests that someone who didnāt just get back home from saving the actual world could ALSO just do. because he needs to get some fucking letters of recommendation.
look. genuinely. percy jackson should snap at this point in the story. this boy shouldāve snapped like at least 5 books ago. at minimum. rick wrote the perfect setup to show us percyās instant descent into madness. he should LOSE it. all the gods have done for the ENTIRE time heās known heās a demigod is treat demigods like disposable tools. this is the point in the story where percy goes. wow. luke was right. you guys are all assholes who donāt care about us even a little bit. i am NOT saying what needs to follow is a fanfic-esque dark!percy story where he successfully destroys olympus or something. what i AM saying. is at bare minimum this is where percy goes you know what fuck you i hate you guys and washes his hands of being a demigod at least temporarily. at the very least he should sit back and think yeah, i donāt really want to go to new rome university. itās not worth it. i will just go to a different university. look. itās percy jackson. he can literally one shot all but the most fearsome monsters (typhon, the giants, a drakon, etc). he is literally going to be 100% completely fine going to mortal university AND he wont have to deal with zeusās annoying ass.
listen. MY percy jackson wanted to kill smelly gabe as a 12 year old because he abused his mother. MY percy jackson doesnāt like bullies. MY percy jackson challenged ares to a fight just on the basis that ares was a fucking asshole.
MY percy jackson is not going on useless fucking quests to go to new rome university of all places.
which reminds me. why DOES he want to go to new rome university. this is percy jackson. he LOVES new york. why is percy āwhat did they do to my cityā jackson going to university ACROSS THE COUNTRY from the city he loves. why is he doing that. and hey look. sally and paul (and soon estelle) are ALSO going to be in new york. so like WHY is he leaving for real. percy my fatal flaw is loyalty jackson. IT DOESNāT MAKE SENSE OK! itās percy he is seriously not going to have issues with common monsters attacking him. we literally saw him fight off titans and giants a fucking hellhound isnāt gonna get his ass. WHY is he leaving. it does NOT make sense.
thereās this scene ok. where sally tells them sheās pregnant. and percyās like oh my godā¦. iām going to be in californiaā¦. and my sister is going to be hereā¦. and i was just sitting there going. yeah bro. why are you going to california. i literally do not understand. you literally are from nyc. you live here. your family is here. your friends from chb are like a short pegasus ride away. there are like 50 universities in new york. just go here. why are you leaving. you are percy jackson. being a new yorker is literally one of your defining traits. stay here. WHY AR EYOU LEAVING I DO NOT UNDERSTAND PERSEUS
and listen. if your argument is that annabeth is going to be in nru. why the FUCK is ANNABETH going to nru!!!!! WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT!!!! EXPLAIN IT!!!! percy LITERALLY says annabeth is such an overachiever sheās already run out of ap classes to take. he literally says that. why the fuck is this girl going to nru where letās be real her admission is guaranteed. annabeth is 100% someone who would want to go to an ivy. and would you fucking believe it thereās an ivy right here in nyc. like letās be fucking realistic here. annabeth started her architecture career at SIXTEEN designing the city the fucking GODS live in. so like. donāt you think sheād want to be a bit more challenged. donāt you think sheād want to go to a university that is actually recognizable to mortals. annabeth did NOT love new rome that much like did richard forget what he wrote. this girl was freaking out about new rome until percy said he only likes it because they could live together there. she literally does not care about new rome and she is WAY too ambitious and academically inclined to be happy with going to some small as uni 99% of employers have never heard of.
this isnāt even the worst character assassination in the book. that award goes to the way rick wrote percy. percy. my darling percy. my beloved percy. perseus jackson. light of my life. as i said before, he is MOSTLY on form. the him really wanting to cali thing is definitely ooc for him but it is NOTHING compared to the sheer amount of times rick portrays percy as stupid in this accursed novel. his internal monologue is constantly shit like iām always so behind annabeth and omg iām being so dumb right now and annabeth calls me seaweed brain because iām an idiot and blah blah fucking blah.
dick riordan has forgotten that perseus jackson is, in fact, not stupid at all. he is INCREDIBLY clever. he is just not particularly academically inclined/not very book smart and it would also be perfectly understandable given the fucking books that riordan wrote to interpret that as percy being very discouraged from engaging with his studies. he genuinely enjoys chironās class at yancy because chiron is an engaging teacher and encourages him. he spends 90% of his time in pjo deducing whatās going on with extremely limited information because rick decided none of the characters can tell him anything because of plot and exposition reasons. in son of neptune he literally just coasts on having sherlockian (not bbc thatās a whole other angry review) powers of deduction. to the point where the characters around him are amazed at how heās figuring stuff out. literally in house of hades annabethās povās are constantly her commenting on how she gives percy shit for being a dumbass but heās actually really clever.
it genuinely feels like at some point during the writing of mark of athena rick decided to just slowly start making various fanon ideas canon. percy being stupid is very commonly accepted fanon because he doesnāt realize how smart he is (and fans donāt realize heās an unreliable narrator) and the fans also love to infantilize characters with more in your face adhd (leo is another victim of this phenomenon). weāve spent 5 books in percyās head and he doesnāt think heās particularly clever so it makes sense to ignore the mountains of evidence pointing towards his quick and creative thought process in favour of haha percy is dumb jokes.
the wild thing is, percy isnāt even that hard on himself in pjo. he obviously doesnāt see himself in the same way we later come to find out other people see him (mainly thinking about hazel and frank in son of neptune, which is the only time in hoo he genuinely feels like the same character as pjo percy) but heās not really dealing with crazy self doubt and self esteem issues. he does have his down on himself moments but theyāre all extremely understandable given the context because he literally faces impossible odds in every single pjo book. at one point heās disappointed he couldnāt tell that ares and luke manipulated him⦠like yes bestie thatās a very valid thing to feel upset and betrayed about. it doesnāt mean that heās actually stupid though and genuinely he comes across more as humble and not realizing just how awesome and cool and interesting he is than anything else. percy consistently shows that he is really clever. half of pjo is percy figuring out a new and interesting way of defeating his enemies and the other half is percy figuring out how to bait his enemies into a duel to improve his odds. itās horrible what rick does to percy in his internal monologue.
itās to an insane degree. yes i realize i have already written 500 words about percy not being stupid alone but i must stress how egregious this is. itās literally characters who have previously acknowledged percyās intelligence who start remarking about how heās stupid. in house of hades percy and annabeth get out of fucking TARTARUS and reyna makes a jab about how percy wouldnāt be able to find his way out of a paper bag without annabeth. that is an INSANE thing to say for reyna and for rick. rick has not written a stupid character so itās weird to make that something a character does without really trying to show them being wrong. from reynaās perspective, this is a guy she was complimenting a few short weeks ago. this is a guy she immediately wanted to make a leader at the camp that she loves and is her home. this is guy she barely knows and she pretty much immediately proposes to him. WHY would she suddenly start making jokes about how dumb he is? itās not like she actually knows him better now. he came to the battle with reinforcements and basically immediately dipped after the feast. how are we to accept reyna treating our beloved perseus in this horrific manner? we simply cannot. it is unnacceptable. this is inaccurate.
itās so WRONG to do this to percy. yES I UNDERSTAND I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR TOO LONG. I DONāT CARE. PERCY JACKSON IS MY BEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND I NEED TO DEFEND HIM FROM THIS SLANDER. I AM ONLY PARTIALLY JOKING. listen. liSTEN. this is the guy whose signature move is manipulate your enemy into dueling with you when youāre outnumbered or outmatched. he very coolly manipulated bob into killing his own brother (btw this was very hot and sexy and clever and attractive perseus is king of gaslight gatekeep girlboss). he is NOT stupid. he is impulsive. he is extremely oblivious about some things. he is NOT stupid. i watched perseus jackson grow up for 5 books and he is not stupid. i always say this. i always say that percy is not stupid and richard riordan refuses to listen to me.
there are such horrendous lines as āi am a guy of limited talents. if i canāt kill it with water, a sword, or sarcasm, iām basically defenseless.ā richard how DARE you say this about my beloved perseus. he is NEVER like this. he literally would never say that. even at absolute worst percyās internal monologue was āthis plan is stupid and will get us killed. but itās the plan i have.ā heās NOT a being defenseless guy. what hte fuck are you saying. richard did you read your own books. RICHARD. DID YOU. at one point he says that he is constantly several steps behind annabethās thought process. he has literally never thought this before and it is also untrue. richard. i hate you. read your own fucking books oh my god.
ok. i think i have sufficiently harped on the fact that percy is not stupid. now i will complain about another thing. and this was just in one part but it bothered me and this is my review so i get to talk about whatever i want. if you donāt like it read someone elseās review. donāt hate read my review. i didn't charge you money to read it
at one point, percy has to wrestle a god who hercules once wrestled. and annabeth says something about hercules brute forcing it. and look. i GET that hercules was freakishly strong. i get that. i understand it. but when annabeth says hercules just brute forced it theyāre both like ah shit i canāt do that. perseus. beloved. you ripped the minotaurs horn off its head with your bare hands as a 12 year old with no training. you are literally insanely strong as is. that is an insane thing for a 12 year old to be able to do. hell, that would be an insane thing for a grown adult to do. i donāt think rick realizes how op percy is. he was so caught up in making percy cool (which is, you know, extremely understandable and right and correct percy jackson is the coolest man in fiction for a reason i get it) that he forgot that he made percy extremely unbelievably powerful too. with the curse of achilles he was potentially matching minor gods in power level. he fights while sustaining mini-hurricanes and explodes glaciers and shit.
some more things. the prose is⦠acceptable. the plot reads like a fever dream. there is a smoothie shop called himbo juice that annabeth percy and grover are evidently regulars at. and there are. himbos. that serve. juice. so you can imagine what this fever dream looks like. like the last couple rick riordan releases, this one reads like published fanfiction too, just with better quality of writing than the sun and the star.
there are some WEIRD continuity errors in here. one of them is fairly minor but i still noticed it - percy says his father compared his mother to a princess. this is not true. poseidon compared sally to a queen. specifically, he called her āa queen among womenā. i know this because i am sally jacksonās number 1 fan.
more egregiously, however, is annabethās yankees cap heebie jeebies. percy puts on annabethsās cap and gets the heebie jeebies while using it. and then he goes wow annabeth. you never told me that using the cap is like this. and annabeth is like yeah well. power is like that. richard. riordan. did you fucking FORGET that percy has, in fact, worn annabethās cap before. and it was literally completely. once again, richard, did you read your own books.
one more good thing - when percy fights geras/gary, who is the god/personification of old age, the way he does it is by imagining him and his friends getting older and embracing it. this was a genuinely good and sweet moment and it was very touching. the trioās talks about this after the fact are also absolutely a return to form from riordan. for like, a few paragraphs. but still.
the biggest problem is just how obvious it is that this book is a cash grab. we had pjo. then we had a sequel series. then we had ANOTHER sequel series. and now weāre getting random standalone novels that are extremely unnecessary and donāt add anything. rick riordan has dollar signs in his eyes. these are not stories that make sense. these are not stories rick genuinely wanted to tell. these are stories that are being told because the purpose of publishing books now is to maximize profit. (sidebar - i told you the capitalism thing would be relevant. you should believe me more often. smh) the only reason rick is still writing these books is that they make money. they feel extremely empty and hollow.
percy is trapped as a teenager forever because rick refuses to let him age up. percy accepting old age would make FAR more sense for a percy whoās in his 20ās and just now realizing that he lived past all the shit he thought was going to kill him and he has a real life that he likes and he could actually grow old now. but percy must be a child for marketing purposes, so he stays a child. the world itself is trapped in a cycle of the gods promising theyāll be better and the gods literally not changing at all. and for the sake of the book series, it canāt change. if we had real change in the world, that would actually mean something, silly. we canāt have consequences. we have to reset every 5 years like a fucking comic book so that we can make infinite money. this is the infinite money glitch irl. just make trash that doesnāt need to be made. the end point of capitalism is making trash no one asked for that has no artistic merit just because you can make money off of it.
by the way, dr emily wilsonās iliad translation, which was also out on the same day, is LESS expensive than this book. this cashgrab nonsense novel is MORE expensive than a book a professor in classics who has a phd spent 4 years on. this is just wrong. the fun and stupid cashgrab book should NOT be more expensive than a book that someone spent 4 years meticulously translating from ancient greek. itās just so clear and in your face. trials of apollo absolutely felt like a cashgrab but at least there was SOME semblance of effort there. this is literally just the most plain and simple cashgrab novel you can make.
hey. you know the infinite monkey theorem? the infinite monkey theorem is that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text including shakespeare. richard riordan is a monkey with a typewriter. you get it. youāve read percy jackson.
rick riordan struck gold with pjo. itās genuinely to this day one of my favourite things iāve ever read, flaws and all. itās FUN. itās COOL. itās THEMATICALLY COHESIVE. the characters grow and change. they feel like real people with personalities. it literally doesnāt even matter how op percy is because THATāS how good of a character he is. he is so compelling that you want to read about him anyway even though you can tell right from the minotaur fight that this kid can decimate whatever opponent he has. the books are funny and moving because you can genuinely connect to these characters. the more i read rick riordanās work, the more certain i am that pjo was a fluke. i donāt think he knows what heās doing. i think he should retire from writing.
unfortunately for me, richard riordan seems to have no intention of retiring. he has announced another percy jackson book that will be released next year. i assume there will be at least 2 more books based on the setup in this one.
rick. listen. i know youāre listening because what else will you do with your time. rick, why are you doing this. hasnāt percy been through enough. when will it end. give it a rest. stop it. get some help. at the very least, read your own books before writing percy. i am right about him and you are wrong about him. you are the author and iām killing you right now. i am strangling you and i am hitting you with weapons. all at once. i am very proficient at causing deaths. (this is a metaphor referring to roland barthesā death of the author. i wish no bodily harm to richard riordan).
this book is⦠alright. percy is my smart king. sally jackson is queen of my heart. itās a fun read but you do have to turn your brain off completely and read through some serious percy defamation.
[edit: i am downgrading this book to one star (was at 2). the more i think about it, the more angry i am. there is literally a paragraph tailor made to rub jason's death in our faces. it's about how he looks forward to getting old being married to piper and having grandchildren. it's a very low blow. jason is literally rick riordan's biggest missed opportunity and he's rubbing in how poorly he treated jason even after killing him off for apollo's character development.
annabeth still keeps putting percy down because rick doesn't realize how mean she is i guess. she's still scared of him. canonically. which is a really weird and fucked up thing to write imo. this relationship doesn't seem healthy in canon (they are healthy in my head, however, because i know what women are like) but rick refuses to address it or let them break up. i LOVE annabeth. i love her. but she is an extremely flawed character and rick never treats her as such. and it just makes it exhausting to read about her.
percy IS on form but it genuinely feels like he's tlt percy, not post hoo percy. his inner voice sounds way more immature than it has for most of pjo and in son. riordan also repurposes the "look, i didn't want to be a half-blood" line from tlt to make a dumb little joke about how high school is hard. it was a GOOD opening line. it immediately set the tone and told us so much about percy in literally just a handful of words. now it's a joke about how being a senior in high school sucks. it's this mcu-esque allergy to being sincere that pjo never had.
there is BARELY any grover in this book. i love grover so much that i was cheering any time he was there, but there is very little of him. he's in like 2 or 3 scenes and has his own side plot going on with juniper and being bad at understanding what his girlfriend wants or whatever. extremely unnecessary and not what i want for grover. this book kind of ends up feeling like it's about annabeth but from percy's perspective. she gets good moments at percy's expense. percy spends the book monologuing about how annabeth is way smarter than him and all he has is his sick ass water powers and the best swordfighting skill in 300 years, both of which are very downplayed. percy explodes a river and it's treated like this crazy freaky scary thing but two years ago in universe he made a volcano erupt and everyone was like yeah this makes sense percy is that powerful. in son he explodes a glacier and it's just a normal tuesday for him. he literally doesn't even react to it. and now we're supposed to believe his exploding and purifying a river feat is some unbelievable feat.]
in conclusion, i want a refund. no i did not purchase this book. however, i would like to be reimbursed about $5000 in emotional damages. i will also be suing richard riordan for defamation on percyās behalf. good night new york city. and my beloved perseus jackson who lives in new york city.
Ok so like the book is cute and all but why did Percy regress so much? Why did this read like Annabeth Chase and the chalice of the gods? His inner voice was so tlt which is great and makes sense considering the show and all but it completely erased all the development he had in his own series. No cause why is he insecure to the point of asking Annabeth for step-by-step directions which has canonically never happened before? He lead the tlt quest better than he lead this quest. Rick why are you so determined to write Percy as the most incompetent person alive who should be kissing Annabethās feet for allowing him in her presence thatās not cute or romantic

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