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|  | Author: Rick Riordan
Publisher: Disney Hyperion Books for Children
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Rating:  169 reviews
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 400
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.4
ISBN: 1423101472
EAN: 9781423101475
ASIN: 1423101472
Publication Date: May 5, 2009
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 The Last Olympian October 7, 2009
squaxin (Kenmore, Wa USA)
When I read The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan I felt transported to New York and beyond. To a small camp where boys and girl went to train and be safe. Every page was full of excitement and adventure. I just could not stop reading. I read the others in the series and this was the best. It even had some humor.
When I was in sixth grade I was studying the Greeks and I knew almost everything about their mythology because of these books. It helped me understand the Greek folklore and I aced all my quizzes. I learned from these books to.
It also had a hidden message which I thought was amazing. "No matter what your dad is, Greek god or normal loving dad, you are his son and nothing you do can change that fact." I found that very moving and what the books are mostly about. I it also goes the same for moms too. I think that the hidden message was very well written.
My favorite character was Grover and satyr. That means he is human from the waist up and goat from the waist down. I liked Grover because he was kind of the clown of them and was more grown up. He also is a goat boy for "Pete sakes" what could be cooler than that? I don't know but I found that Grover had a personality that I could relate to. That is why Grover is my favorite character.
I also liked how the author put humor in the titles of each chapter. My favorite was "The end of the world started when a Pegasus landed on the hood of my car."I liked how he even had the silly chapter names to involve what happens in the chapter. I found this to be very funny and interesting.
I liked this book The Last Olympian because it had adventure and excitement in every page and you didn't have to build up set up because you already knew what is going on. I liked the author's writing style because he had a lot of cliff hangers and suspense that kept me reading and reading.
This book is about Percy Jackson a son of Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, and his battle against the evil Titian Lord Kronos. This book also tells of Percy and his fulfillment of the prophecy on his 16th birthday. In this book he is fighting to defend the Greek god's capital Mt. Olympus. Percy and all of his fellow demigods must team up to hold off the invading army until the gods arrive after the fight with a huge monster.
After reading this book my expectations were set a lot higher for books. I would recommend this book for anybody that likes action and adventure. I also would recommend the rest of the series first but you can read them in any order. I felt that this book was a very great book and I felt that you should read it too.
GREAT BOOK October 5, 2009
A must have for fans of the series, filled with extreme battles and unexpected suprieses. this book was all i expected
A mythic finale. October 4, 2009
S. Curley (Charlottetown, PE, Canada)
After five books (delivered over an especially timely five years; people who thought J.K Rowling let her books get too big as they went on (I am not one of those) will doubtless of the five's relatively uniform lengths), the adventures of Percy Jackson and his band of friends at last come to an end. The stage is set for the final conflict between the Olympian Gods and the revived armies of the Titanomachy, led by the evil Kronos, Lord of Time. Spoilers follow, as the details of the book are discussed at some length.
The preceding entry, "Battle of the Labyrinth", saw Kronos take a physical form, that of his disciple Luke, a bitter child of the Olympian God Hermes. Not yet at his full power, Kronos nevertheless plans his revenge against his usurping children and their heirs, and many of the minor deities and dispossessed half-bloods flock to his banner. I will say that Riordan is at points not really successful at achieving the ambiguity that he seems to be going for in depicting the Olympian-Titan generational conflict. He is adept at highlighting the shortcomings of the Olympians, as per the revelations regarding Hades' children Nico and Bianca, or through the lengthy spiel of the Titan Prometheus, who sides with Kronos. Nevertheless, Kronos and his primary minions never come across as anything less than pure evil, leaving it very hard to see why anyone remotely rational would choose him over Zeus's occasionally severe dickishness.
That aside, this book marks a tremendous finale for the series. Most of the story is an all-out war between the Olympians' heroes and the armies of Kronos (while the gods themselves battle Typhon). All of the campers we've come to know over the preceding books are thrust into the thick of it, and large numbers get their own moments to shine. Since this is the epic finale, more than one meets their end in heroic fashion as well. The ambiguity of the half-bloods' position is illustrated reasonably well through characters like Luke and Ethan Nakamura. And the conclusion suggests the beginning of a better era for Olympus, including, in a very nice moment, Percy remembering poor Calypso from the last book (on the one hand, it might have been more literary to preserve the sad ending, but, on the other, of course Percy would remember her).
The spotlight rotating through the various Olympians continues here. Recurring players such as Hermes and Hades get more time in the sun, and Demeter puts in a brief appearance (of all the Fourteen, she gets shortchanged here, though). The real surprise, though is Hestia, the Goddess of the Hearth, little more than a footnote in the myths, but elevated to real symbolic importance here (she is the titular last Olympian).
Our heroes arrive at their various ends. The temporary obstacle to the Percy/Annabeth pairing, Rachel, is assigned a new role that takes her out of contention (as an aside, I liked that she and Annabeth never really put aside their hostility and became friends before this happened, in a bit of realism). Said relationship is nicely handled, and the issue of Luke is resolved in a very mature manner as well.
I will be interested to see if Riordan can next do for the Gods of Egypt what he has done for the Gods of Greece.
 The Last Olympian October 3, 2009
Ithlilian
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Last Olympian throws you into the action from the very beginning. There is no running across the country running into nice people that turn into monsters. It's war from page one. I have to admit that I don't enjoy books that are nonstop action with no plot, so thankfully, there was a good amount of plot progression here. We found about about a spy, about Luke's childhood, about a few prophecies, and we got to check in with all of the half bloods that we have come to love. It wasn't all Percy all of the time, which is great. One of my only qualms is that for a serious book with serious subject matter, I never felt the gravity of the situation. People were dying and the world was on the line, yet it happened so fast I barely registered it. I've read books where the description of a fight makes me feel like I'm there, explanations of the moves makes me picture exactly what is going on, and injuries almost make me gag. The fight scenes in The Last Olympian were bland. It was basically he stabbed me, I dodged, I stabbed him, he died. I felt a pretty large disconnect with the characters in this novel that I hadn't felt in the previous installments. One event occurred after another with very few surprises thrown in. There is a war, good guys win, happy ending, that's it. I felt like the series was building up to a grand finale, and I felt like this novel was building to a grand ending, yet the war ended very abruptly. It was very anticlimactic and a bit of a let down. After that, we have 25 pages or so of happy endings and tying lose ends. It just felt half-hearted. I was expecting more drama, more intrigue, and more depth. A good series overall, definitely worth reading, but it fell a bit short of greatness for me.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians October 3, 2009
The book is great my mom dad and sister want to read it when i am done with it
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