Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33625519-20180807184614/@comment-38112203-20190226212918

Yah, I really should read them. I plan on reading them before September when the next book comes out. I did check the first book out of the library and started to read it when five things happened. 1. I had already read about half of the book in the library, so a while later when I officially decided to check it out and read it, I started from the beginning, but since I had read it before, I was kind of bored.

2. I am really bad at skipping ahead, and I found the part where Leo comes back, and it says that Nico made them take numbers. I didn’t know what that meant, and it wasn’t till the third page of that chapter that i figured out what that meant. I feel that since it if from Apollo’s point of view, Apollo doesn’t care about the same things we do, so it’s harder to read.

3. I found out that Jiper broke up and that Jason died. And I was like nooooooooooo. I wanted to run from the truth of his death, in a sense. So I lost interest in reading it. (And I died, so I guess I lost interest in life too).

4. I realized that since it is from Apollo’s point of view, and he isn’t as emotionally attached to people, it’s less interesting for me to read. He doesn’t care as much about Jason’s death as Thalia would. I want to know the thoughts of people that actually care about him. How Reyna feels. How Nico feels. How Piper, Leo, Percy, Annabeh, Thalia, Frank, Hazel, and the people that knew him from both camps. Apollo just met him at the very end. He wasn’t there for all the hardships Jason faced. He just booted in at the end.

5. The books are a lot darker. I had just gone through a hard time in my life, so I wasn’t really prepared.

I found all that out and stoped reading the book. I decided to read Magnus Chase. (Read it if you have not). I’m so glad I did. It’s a bit more light hearted, and it helped me with my grief of Jason’s death a bit. (Yep, I’m the person that finds out about it, and goes outside to the trailer in our yard, and cries for half and hour. And crying out the characters names, and saying No, it can’t be true.) I also read MC because I wanted to run from the fact that he died. The only problem was that at the end of the last book, Magnus calls Annabeth and hears that she is crying. She says that she and Percy got some sad news when they got out to the east cost. You can easily guess what the news was. Uncle Rick didn’t say so, but we can all guess. And I was like Nooooo, I can’t run from the truth. I will read the books soon though. 😊