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A review by thea
The Tower of Nero by Rick Riordan
5.0
[ FINISHED 1:59 AM ]
I was fully prepared for this series to end, and I’m so glad I was so I’m not filled with the aching bittersweet feeling I normally feel when reading the last book of a series.
This was one of those books I needed at a specific time. It also just never ceases to amaze me how I started this series when I was 15 years old (2nd year of high school) and now I’m 19 about to leave my teenage years behind to 20 (2nd year of university). I grew up with this series, constantly evolved into a better person along with Lester/Apollo. I grew up with him and that makes my heart ache for some reason.
I adored the way this series ended honestly. That final battle did not disappoint me. The tone was maintained wonderfully throughout this entire book. Apollo was just so raw sometimes, realizing and analyzing the sharp, beautiful edges of humanity that served as a gentle reminder to my own.
When he’d told me to remember being human, he’d meant building on the pain and tragedy, overcoming it, learning from it. That was something gods never did. We just complained.
To be human is to move forward, to adapt, to believe in your ability to make things better. That is the only way to make the pain and sacrifice mean something.
Whenever Apollo mentioned Jason, my heart hurt along with him. I started my journey with The Lost Hero (not with the Percy Jackson series, like so many others, but with the Heroes of Olympus series). And when I read Jason’s death in The Burning Maze? I was shoved into the shock stage of grief real quick. But I loved how it was constantly brought up because it’s so realistic — you don’t just forget about something like that and move on. Life doesn’t work that way, and I love how Apollo used it as fuel and is very determined to keep Jason’s promise throughout his immortal existence.
I was fully prepared for this series to end, and I’m so glad I was so I’m not filled with the aching bittersweet feeling I normally feel when reading the last book of a series.
This was one of those books I needed at a specific time. It also just never ceases to amaze me how I started this series when I was 15 years old (2nd year of high school) and now I’m 19 about to leave my teenage years behind to 20 (2nd year of university). I grew up with this series, constantly evolved into a better person along with Lester/Apollo. I grew up with him and that makes my heart ache for some reason.
I adored the way this series ended honestly. That final battle did not disappoint me. The tone was maintained wonderfully throughout this entire book. Apollo was just so raw sometimes, realizing and analyzing the sharp, beautiful edges of humanity that served as a gentle reminder to my own.
When he’d told me to remember being human, he’d meant building on the pain and tragedy, overcoming it, learning from it. That was something gods never did. We just complained.
To be human is to move forward, to adapt, to believe in your ability to make things better. That is the only way to make the pain and sacrifice mean something.
Whenever Apollo mentioned Jason, my heart hurt along with him. I started my journey with The Lost Hero (not with the Percy Jackson series, like so many others, but with the Heroes of Olympus series). And when I read Jason’s death in The Burning Maze? I was shoved into the shock stage of grief real quick. But I loved how it was constantly brought up because it’s so realistic — you don’t just forget about something like that and move on. Life doesn’t work that way, and I love how Apollo used it as fuel and is very determined to keep Jason’s promise throughout his immortal existence.