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Those Who Saw the Sun: African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South by Jaha Nailah Avery
3.75
Wrath of the Triple Goddess by Rick Riordan
adventurous
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.0
I’ve been keeping up with these new releases because of my love for the original series, but I have to say this is the first one since the first Trials of Apollo that I haven’t really gotten much enjoyment from.
This book does have its moments - the interactions between Percy and Annabeth and Grover are sweet, and the main lesson here is very wholesome. However, I felt like there were a lot more pop culture references and fart jokes and general leaning into “Percy is a dorky idiot” moments. I thought maybe it was just because I’m older now and that difference is skewing my memories, so I went back to check some of the other books. There have always been pop culture references in Rick Riordan books, for example, but I was right that there used to be a lot fewer. They didn’t come up nearly as much as in this book. I feel like that difference is present even between this and the one directly before it (which I liked a lot more). Overall it just made Percy feel like he’d gotten younger. I feel like I’m reading about Percy from before the events of the Lightning Theif, not Percy who’s lived through multiple wars, survived Tartarus, and saved the entire world twice.
Also, I did get the sense while reading this that Rick has lost track of/forgotten about Percy’s established range of power. There is a point in the book where Percy uses his power in a way that should by now be extremely easy for him, but it makes him pass out. Again, I’m supposed to believe this the same Percy Jackson who survived making an entire volcano erupt? The same Percy Jackson who can go full hurricane mode?
This book does have its moments - the interactions between Percy and Annabeth and Grover are sweet, and the main lesson here is very wholesome. However, I felt like there were a lot more pop culture references and fart jokes and general leaning into “Percy is a dorky idiot” moments. I thought maybe it was just because I’m older now and that difference is skewing my memories, so I went back to check some of the other books. There have always been pop culture references in Rick Riordan books, for example, but I was right that there used to be a lot fewer. They didn’t come up nearly as much as in this book. I feel like that difference is present even between this and the one directly before it (which I liked a lot more). Overall it just made Percy feel like he’d gotten younger. I feel like I’m reading about Percy from before the events of the Lightning Theif, not Percy who’s lived through multiple wars, survived Tartarus, and saved the entire world twice.
Also, I did get the sense while reading this that Rick has lost track of/forgotten about Percy’s established range of power. There is a point in the book where Percy uses his power in a way that should by now be extremely easy for him, but it makes him pass out. Again, I’m supposed to believe this the same Percy Jackson who survived making an entire volcano erupt? The same Percy Jackson who can go full hurricane mode?