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The Mark of Athena Excerpt

Rick Riordan
Book report The Mark of AthenaHafeleni HamunyelaJanuary 14 2014The Mark of Athena, a fantasy book with one of the best selling authors, Rick Riordan. This book continues from the “Son of Neptune” in the “Heroes of Olympus” series after the “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” series. The Mark of Athena is a book which has to do with Greek and Roman Mythology. Hazel, Frank, Annebeth,Percy,Jason, Piper and Leo, the prophecy of seven, where sent on a quest to defeat the twin giants, Otis and Ephialtes. Who are the sons of Gaea, an evil goddess (known as mother earth,) who can wake up and soon destroy the world. This story relates to the story when Gaea “killed” her husband and ruled with her kids, the giants. Then later on, she has a child named Kronos who gave birth to the gods of Olympus, Zeus, Poseidon, Hades etc. The story ends when the gods of Olympus make her sleep because she is too evil and powerful, and later on defeat the giants. How the Mark of Athena relates to this story is because the seven demigods have to destroy Gaea and her children in modern day. The Mark of Athena shows a theme of challenges. The story begins when the demigods from “Camp Half Blood,” a camp for Greek demigods go meat “Camp Jupiter,” a Roman camp. These two camps don't get along and they need to, in order to defeat Gaea. However, problems begging to happen when a demigod from “Camp Half Blood,” Leo Valdez possessed by eidolens decides to take the ship away and destroy some of the camp, this caused Romans to hate them even more which was Gaea's plan. But that's not even the best part, the twin giants have captured Nico, the seven demigods need to save Nico Di Angelo, Hazel Levesque's brother or else he will die in 7 days. Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena has to go through a challenging quest by following the Mark of Athena a quest where none of the children of Athena have succeeded, but have gone through painful deaths. Her challenge is to return her mom's statue to camp which was captured by Arachne, Athena's worst enemy. I think Rick Riordan did a good job in the book by teaching the readers some Greek myths as they run into people. However, I think Rick Riordan should of worked more on creating more battles in the book which kind of disappointed me. This story is interesting and it has more then one narrator. I recommend this book to people at any age who love fantasy books or finished reading the Son of Neptune. I strongly believe this book is much more interesting then Twilight and Harry Potter. My second recommendation is to advice people to read The House of Hades once you are finished with the Mark of Athena. The Mark of Athena ends with a cliff hanger which would make you eager to read the next book. The Mark of Athena is an exciting, romantic book.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians Boxed Set

Rick Riordan
before we start;a READERS ATTENTION!:Rick Riordan's series Order:first, Percy Jacksonthen Heroes of Olympus at last, Trials of Apollo & Magnus Chase is happening at the same time; they have crossovers sometimes.(or read in this order: Camp Half-Blood Chronicles)I warned everywhere I could, because I'm nervous you might read in wrong order & you won't enjoy as much as you should.anyway...generally I love those fantasy stories happening in our world, they're apparently named low fantasy, but I call them: Fantasy in reality. (& not just my favourite in books, but movies & tv shows too)When fantasy elements bind in reality; we know a boring damn world (reality) & then... magic came! or myths or travel between universes. I live in that world (as a reader lives a thousands of lives) & I feel happy.also familiar sense in other way like I know places & cities (I mean in almost all high fantasy stories I'm just confused with the strange names & wondering where they were.)& even heroes have been shocked when they actually entered their fantasy world. (so they know that world with me & I can relate with their surprise, feelings, fears, etc)so it made very easy to believe they can be real, somewhere, somehow, in a corner of this world magic exists (Harry Potter), you can travel to parallel universes (Pendragon) or mythology lives among us. (Percy Jackson)my top fav series has another features too: they are about the subjects I actually love to know about in science. (magic, parallel universes, Myths)& now whole review of one of my favourite series:Complete 5 Golden StarsIdea: ★★★★★/5I said thousand times that I love love love mythology, especially Greek mythology. -World building: ★★★★★/5mythology in fantasy, sign me in!I love how myths wrapped up in reality & how this fiction built up. & monsters, rules of this world, Demigods, villains... everything seems real & realistic! I love realistic fictions. when you can just simply imagine the story is actually happening somewhere in this world. U know what I mean?
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

Rick Riordan
Book review The book is Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book #1 The Sword of summer, the author is Rick Riordan, and it has a total of 466 pages. The book is about a boy named Magnus was a homeless man and was 16 years old, he had been homeless for 2 years and his mother died by a reason that no one knew except for his uncle. This was but his uncle then on his 16 birthday came and tried to find Magnus and when he did told him he needs to go with him now, this is but he didn't want to go with him because his mom told him to never ask for help from her uncles. This is but he wanted answers so he broke into his uncles to get answers and that is where his uncle found him because his uncle since he was 14 tried to find him. Then his uncle told him get in the car so he got dragged in there but the whole time was questioning if he should fight back and leave. This is but he didn't because his uncle told him he had answers about everything his dad and everything the kid ever even did have questions about in the world. So then his uncle ended up taking him to this pond because he said that a norse ship crashed in it and what he said next surprised him he said his dad was a norse god and what killed your mom had something to do with all this and that’s what's gonna kill you today if they find you. So then he had to stand over the bridge and hold his hand out trying to pull out a sword which he thought his uncle was crazy for making him do but he listened. Then a old sword that looked like a regular pole came out and he thought it was was garbage, but he still thought that pulling out garbage was pretty cool because he said “ it’s cool I have the power to pull garbage out of the river, the state’s gonna love me for cleaning there ponds.” Then he died but his goal was to go kill Ragnarok because he was a Norse god just like his father, and that’s why he was able to pull up the sword that looked like garbage. This book was a great book that was a great story but still gives you tough words that you have to use context clues that you have to use to find the word out. I loved that it made your brain work and you learn but your still having fun reading the book and guessing what will happen next. My favorite character was a character that was on fire and asked for the sword. One thing I didn’t like about the authors writing is that some parts are confusing of what is happening in the story line at that point. This is but he did a good job getting the story line to start making sense again after a little bit. I would recommend this book to someone else because I loved the story line that was in the book.