The Riordan is keeping the story fresh but finding ways to bring all his other well loved characters back into the flow is just simply amazing and I for one cannot wait to continue on this journey and see how it all comes to an end!! Heck it was even more great to see Thalia again (I loved Thalia!!). It was great to see Leo and Calypso again after the ending of The Blood of Olympus. I am enjoying Apollo so much as the MC, do I miss Percy (of course) but Apollo just has this freshness about him even though he is 1000+ years old. It is one entertaining book from start to finish. If there isn’t any action going on your laughing your head off, if your not laughing your reading some gripping action sequences. The one thing I love about Rick Riordan’s books is that you are never bored. The Dark Prophecy picks up 6 weeks after the conclusion of The Hidden Oracle and we start off with action right from the get go.
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Rick Riordan is now 12 books in his giant series that started with The Lightning Thief and he is not slowing down.
It is understandable since he has been putting out a book a year since 2005! His writing in this book just reads like he is bored and phoning it in. But right now, I think he needs to take a break. Don’t get me wrong, I would love for Riordan to tackle African myths in about five years. I fear this is an introduction to the successor series to Magnus Chase. The character, whose real name is Olujiame, is revealed to have a potential connection to other gods, from African mythology perhaps. Worst of all, a new character was introduced who at first seemed to only be an object for Apollo to fascinate over, even earning the offensive title of loincloth Jimmy. I don’t necessarily mind that they are a lesbian couple, but combined with Apollo’s constant references to past boyfriends and cute boys it adds to the overkill. The same role could have been sisters with one having a daughter and the other a niece. Emmie and Jo are lesbian parents to a crucial character. Further, every significant new character in this book was either bisexual or homosexual. There are more subtle ways to do the same thing without making it seem like Apollo is attracted to every male he sees. We don’t need every time Apollo sees an attractive male for him to comment on their attractiveness. I am also gay, so I have no qualms with a gay character but Apollo’s commentary on cute attractive males in complete overkill. It proved to be a major positive for his character and the series. I think one of the biggest minuses for this book was the overemphasis of gay/lesbian characters.Now, I loved when Nico DiAngelo came out as gay in The House of Hades. This particular format proved to be flat, static and boring. There was no goal that we could travel with our heroes. We spend the entire book in and around Indianapolis. By that I mean that we did not have the typical quest that is so common in Riordan’s works. My first negative is that the story was very static.
Now we get to the negatives, which are unfortunately prevalent. As a history buff I love seeing this new take on the series. Unlike previous series that Riordan has written, the antagonist is not a typical god, but former Roman Emperors. Further, I love the villains in this series. He even introduced some African mythology in a potential hint for a new series, but that is also a negative so more on “Jimmy” a little later. I wish Riordan would have spent a little bit more time on these.
Another good part is the introduction of new mythologies, such as the Crete and Minoan gods who predated the Greek societies. Hopefully this growth will stick and salvage the final book in this trilogy. The downside of that is that his growth takes basically until the end of the third act, so we get very little of the new and improved Apollo. It takes some very tragic occurrences for him to get there, but Apollo finally grows. Finally, Apollo began to show some growth and began to recognize the value of humanity beyond just amusements for gods. The fact that he did not grow is my biggest annoyance about the first book in the series, The Hidden Oracle. He started out as the spoiled god of the sun which defined his character in the first of these books.
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