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I think my personal favorite was Team Thaila/Demigod-Hunter from the Titan's Curse.

The book was seriously a great follow up from the Sea of Monsters and probably my favorite follow-up book opener aside from Last Olympian which had a great calm before the storm kindof setup. Titan's Curse and Last Olympian have always been my favorite books.

I didn't always appreciate it, but that was a great team with probably the greatest dynamic and character development we've seen in a long time.

Looking back, that was seriously heavy (no pun intended) and distraught series of events.

First we have Thaila being pretty cool and at the same time a certified monster but she still has a soft side and allows herself to be taken care of to an extent. She's aware that she can't do everything. When she gets thrown back by that teacher scorpion, she doesn't shake Percy off, she lets him catch and hold her. She doesn't even complain or say "you get behind me" when he stands in front of her with his shield in order to protect her from the monsters. She just stayed there and continued the verbal exchange with the enemy.

Next we have the Hades kids. Bianca seriously gets you fed up when she chooses to become a Hunter and leaves Nico. You cant freakin stand her for a few chapters but then you're over it by the time the quest starts cause she's too precious. I wouldn't doubt that she did all that just to become the best to protect Nico either.

Zoe kinda got on my nerves too, but over the course of the book she seriously warms up to you and Percy as she becomes 90% less hostile and antagonistic and you are really looking out for her. Looking back now, she gives me the vibe of Ryuuzetsu from Naruto's Blood Prison (she didn't before, but this is just after I had seen the movie years ago and thought about the book a few months back). That's the image. I get. I mean she kinds matches the description I guess? Maybe just me idk. Google her for yourself?

When bianca died, I felt like my heart was ripped out. I couldn't believe it. You really felt the team's mood throughout the story. I was seriously upset and i was in the dumps all the way up until the last few chapters on the mountain where I had kinda mellowed out.

No to mention that the whole time you're worried about Annabeth.

They go everywhere around the country seriously it's a real journey and there are plenty of downtime scenes where you just really really get to know the characters and get some juicy interaction. There are a lot of great action scenes too though. Thaila 4 queen of the godz.

Then you get to the finale and there is a serious empathy and care that the four-man now three-man team shows for eachother. The level to which Percy and Zoe now just flow with eachother is uplifting.

He and Zoe are going at Atlas but Percy realizes they're in a tight spot lol. So he takes the weight from Artemis initially against her will but he does it so that SHE and Zoe can take Atlas. SUCH an epic scene and turn of events. Kudos to Percy.

Everything's good and then Zoe dies. I wouldve cried if I was a crying man...

Then Thaila replaces her as lieutinent. BLEEDING HEARTS ALL AROUND I WAS SO CONFLCITED..

At first I thought whtfreak. no annabeth. TEHN IT WAS THAILA AND I WAS LIKE. ........... WELL NOT HER EITHER!!!! WHY GOD????

Then she hugged Percy and I had to suck a tear back in. Childhood truly ended those days.

It should've been "Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Childhood's End"


 * cries* 