User blog comment:Scotty S./Well I thought it was only me. Guess not./@comment-1897744-20100303011051

On a scale of 0-5, with 5 being Lord of the Rings, and .6 being Twilight, I gave the series a 3.7. Not bad, but they were't fantastic. The characters were boring, in my opinion, and more than slightly over done in fiction, but the premise was wonderful and the fact that I found humor due to the fact that I know a lot about Greek mythology was interesting. The plot was more than a bit predicable in most areas, but over all the series was worth the read. Which was good, because I put off picking it up. (The people who recommended it to me were the same people who recommended Maximum Ride - and THAT series was absolutely ATROCIOUS after a third of the way through the fire book.)

tl;dr: PJO = okay. Maximum Ride = complete waste of time. LotR = Still the king of Fantasy. <3 (But in this particular genre, obviously The Iliad reigns supreme. :D I finally got myself a hard copy!)