Tome Thursday: The Trials of Apollo

 

Hello everyone!

 

Aside from the very random Booktober post that I made about Percy Jackson's books, I haven't actually done a Rick Riordan blog post in ... quite some time, judging by the look of my blog.

 

Now THAT is a bit of a shame.

 

As you may remember, I'm a huge Riordan fan and have been since I first laid my hands on Percy Jackson and the Olympians, after which I proceeded to devour just about anything and everything that he had written at some point in his life.

 

Then that kind of stopped when his latest series started being published.

 

For some reason, maybe because unlike with the others I had to wait with the rest of the world for the books to get published, I sort of stopped after book three and never got to book four whatsoever.

 

Then this year marked the occasion for the final one's release, and I decided I had to have another go at it all.

 

Then I binge-read the lot of them. Now I spout Shakespearean verse.

 

Without further ado, tonight, it's all about The Trials of Apollo!

 

Tome Thursday: The Heroes of Olympus

Hello everyone!

I'm back with a book series blog post this week again! To be honest, I'm reading so many books it's getting difficult to pick one that I want to talk about ... which is definitely a sign that I should probably focus on one book at a time, huh? Maybe I'll even listen to my own advice this time haha.

Anyway, this week, I'm going to talk about the other Rick Riordan series which follows his first as a direct sequel, (the first being Percy Jackson and the Olympians, of course), picking up pretty much right after we left our characters the first time around, plus a couple of months in.: The Heroes of Olympus.

First off, let me say that while I might not have enjoyed these particular books as much as the first five, I still liked the general idea for the whole plot, and the fact that we got to revisit with some old favourites from Olympians. Some of the new characters were also very nice additions to the cast (whereas some, I could have done without). But enough dawdling!