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4.42 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Oh. My. Effin. Gawd!!! What the What! That cliffhanger! Why does it end this way!!!! What a journey these heroes have been on . . . And the quest is not over yet! I can not wait to find out what will happen next!
"Being a hero doesn't mean you're invincible. It just means that you're brave enough to stand up and do what's needed." — Piper
I enjoyed the Mark of Athena, and the character development between all of the demigods together was really well-done. I liked the main focus on Athena and Annabeth, and it was a relief that Percy got his memory back in the beginning. My favorite part was when Annabeth threw her dagger into the water for Percy to find, who then knocked out the Romans with water. I also liked the end where Annabeth outsmarted Arachne. Overall, there was a lot going on at once, but I thought it was a great book.
Summary:
Annabeth and the other Camp Half-Bloods fly into Camp Jupiter on Argo II right after the Roman camp ended their battle with the army of giants. Annabeth and Percy are finally reunited, and the Romans throw a feast. Afterward, they discuss the Prophecy of the Seven and agree that they need to go to actual Greece and Rome to fulfill the prophecy. Annabeth meets Reyna and they chat about the Mark of Athena, which is something that Athena told Annabeth to find and gave her a cursed coin gift to follow.
Suddenly, the Argo II starts firing cannons at the Roman camp, and Annabeth and Percy race to the ship to find out what’s going on. They realize that Leo was the one firing on the ship, but he was being controlled by the cold figure that Annabeth had seen. All of the seven Prophecy kids fly away on the ship before the Romans destroy it any more, and they fly to Salt Lake City to repair it with scraps they find around the lake, and decide to voyage to Rome to stop the giants from awakening Gaea. Hazel and Leo go to find some discarded Celestial Bronze, and they meet Nemesis, who tells them a bit of their fortune.
Then they find Narcissis and a former nymph named Echo, and they manage to get the Celestial Bronze from Narcissis, who is using it to look at his reflection. Then they go back to the ship to repair, and they all have a discussion about the prophecy and what they need to do next. Piper uses her knife blade to see certain images, and sees a place in Kansas where they might need to go to do something, as well as finish the full repairs on the ship.
When they arrive, they make a plan and head toward a mile marker where Piper saw Dionysus near in the blade of her knife. They find Dionysus—or Bacchus in Roman form—and Piper realizes that he’s the one who should help them on their quest. So Bacchus tells them to seek out Phorcys, one of Gaea’s sons, in Atlanta to help them find out what to do with the twin giants of the prophecy.
Bacchus leaves right after they find out that Gaea has a trap sprung where they are, and she needs the blood of a female and male demigod for her plans. She lets some eidolons—possessing spirits from the Underworld—take control of Jason and Percy and make them fight each other. Piper, who is there, manages to knock out both of them with Blackjack’s help, and the get back to Argo II.
When they have a discussion at the ship, they figure out that the eidolons must have controlled Leo to make him fire cannons at the Romans. Piper comes up with a clever trick with her charmspeak to see if any of the eidolons are in the room, and manages to make the eidolons leave and not return.
Afterward, they continue sailing toward Atlanta, and Jason tells Piper about the Mark of Athena and how some children of Athena are chosen to find an object that the Romans took and hid in Rome millennia ago, using the actual Mark of Athena to guide them.
Percy has a dream about Nico di Angelo trapped in a jar by twin giants, and later they discuss that they have five days to save him. Nico was also in the Underworld looking for the Doors of Death, so he would be able to tell them where they are in order to close them and stop monsters from reappearing so fast. When they land in the woods of Atlanta, Percy, Frank, and Coach Hedge—who is with them on the trip—go to scout around.
They go inside an aquarium where they think Phorcys the giant might be located, and they find Phorcys there who might be able to tell them information for their quest. The sea god gives them a tour of the aquarium, showing them some trapped Greek sea creatures, and then he traps Percy and Frank in an underwater tank while Coach Hedge wanders away.
They find a way to break the glass and escape the aquarium after Phorcys tells Percy that the twin giants in Rome had trapped Ares in a jar before, and also that there is an important map in Charleston. The map is also supposed to lead to the Mark of Athena, and may help them heal rift between the fighting Romans and Greeks.
So Percy, Frank, and Coach Hedge run to the ship and fly away to Charleston. On the ship, Annabeth has a flashback to when Athena gave her the Mark of Athena. When they arrive, Jason takes Leo and Frank to a museum with the hopes of finding the map there. Meanwhile, Annabeth takes Hazel and Piper to a place in Charleston where Jason had been before and seen a ghost with information.
When Annabeth and her group goes and finds the ghost—who turns out to be Aphrodite—and she tends then to God the map for the Mark of Athena in Fort Sumter. Right afterward, some Romans fly in on eagles, and are about to battle Annabeth, Piper, and Hazel, when Percy comes out of the water and knocks them out with water. When they get to Fort Sumter, Annabeth hears someone tell her that she will have to face someone to do with spiders, and she finds a bronze disc that she takes back with her.
She finds that the Romans have brought their legion onto the deck, and Annabeth talks with Reyna before making it back into Argo II. Percy tells Annabeth that he met a Nereid when he was underwater who told him to find Chiron’s brothers, and the Nereid gave him coordinates where Coach Hedge starts steering the boat toward.
Meanwhile, Hazel takes Leo into one of her memories from when she was alive a while ago, and shows him a person named Sammy who is unnaturally similar to Leo. Then the flashback shifts to Sammy who is now older, and who turns out to be the great-grandfather of Leo. Suddenly—out of the flashback—a sea monster attacks the ship, and Leo grabs and throws a vial of Greek fire to defeat it before being launched into the sea with one of the tentacles.
He soon discovers that he’s trapped in an underwater cave, but still able to breathe with a thin layer of oxygen. Afterward, some fish centaurs come and question Hazel, Frank, and Leo, and they approve that the demigods are good. Then the fish centaurs send Leo with the information to tell Annabeth to go to the River Tiber and talk to Tiberinus to start the actual path of the Mark of Athena.
They also figure out that the path would lead them to the source, which is the Athena Parthenon statue that has disappeared, and likely taken by the Romans. As they’re sailing near the Mediterranean, they have to stop at the entrance, which Hercules is guarding. Piper and Jason go to talk to him, and he makes them go and break another horn off of Achelous, who is nearby, in order to enter.
So Piper and Jason do as he asks, and they are able to steal his other horn, but since they think Hercules isn’t a great person, Piper has the idea to use the horn as the cornucopia it can turn into, and shower food on top of Hercules, trapping him. They make it back onto the ship and continue, when Percy has a dream of the twin giants talking with a mysterious figure in a cave.
Afterward, the Argo II gets raided by dolphin-like people and a son of Poseidon named Chrysaor and who is covered with golden armor. Percy gets a good idea to ward off the dolphin-men by telling them that the one person they fear—Dionysus—is nearby, so they get scared and leave, along with Chrysaor.
When they land in Rome, Percy and Annabeth go to follow the Mark of Athena, Hazel, Frank, and Leo go to find where Nico is, and Piper and Jason stay to guard the ship. As Percy and Annabeth go to speak with Tiberinus, the god of Tiber River, he tells them that Annabeth must go alone into a dark cavern underground. Annabeth does so, and starts her journey through the darkness.
She finds a room with ghosts who are followers of Mithras. She manages to trick them and get out of the room after collapsing it, but then falls through another door and breaks her ankle. She finds a makeshift splint and continues on, making her way past a chasm by weaving thread she had found to make a path. In the next cavern, she finds Arachne, the weaver who was cursed to turn into a huge spider.
Arachne is guarding the Athena Parthenos, which is where the Mark of Athena led Annabeth to find, in order to restore the peace between the Roman and Greek demigods. Meanwhile, Hazel, Frank, and Leo are tracking Nico. Hazel leads them to Pantheon, where Leo finds an opening to an underground passageway through a marble column.
Once they go down, they find out that the three possessing eidolons from before have come back to kill Leo and the others. The eidolons possess a few suits of armor machinery, knock out Frank and Hazel, and chase Leo into a room, which he locks. Leo holds them off while he tries to figure out the combination to an invention of Archimedes that they found underground, but it doesn’t work.
So he decides to use his one-time use fortune cookie from the goddess Nemesis and ask for the combination, which she tells Leo. Leo quickly activates the machines to help his friends, and then hacks the eidolon’s suits of armor to turn on themselves and force them to leave.
When Frank and Hazel wake up, Gaea uses a mirror to talk to the demigods and trap them in the room, right before Leo makes a plan to escape. Back at the ship, Piper and Jason see Percy heading back, and Piper sees a room through her sword blade where Nico is supposed to be.
So she, Jason, and Percy go to the room, where they find nine ancient nymphs who once hid Zeus from Kronos when he was a baby. The nymphs want revenge since they were trapped there for centuries, and they fill the closed room with murky poisoned water.
To escape, Piper and the others use the cornucopia horn to spew fresh water, and cleanse the nymphs in the process. The nymphs thank them, and they continue toward Nico. When they enter the room where Nico is, the twin giants are there, and Nico is released from the jar. Jason, Piper, and Percy battle the giants, but aren’t able to completely kill them without the help of a god.
But just in time, Bacchus—or Dionysus—comes and helps them out, only because the demigods had offered a tribute to him with a sunken ship. Once the giants are defeated, they talk to Nico, who says that he was looking for and found the Doors of Death, which need to be closed in both the mortal side and the Underworld side, which is Tartarus.
Meanwhile, Annabeth holds Arachne from killing her by promising to bring Arachne’s tapestries to Olympus on display. Annabeth convinces the huge spider to unravel the webbing on the Athena Parthenos to make a cylinder piece of “artwork” to show to the gods. Once Arachne does this, Annabeth checks the cylinder and tricks Arachne to go inside and fix a flaw. Arachne gets trapped in the cylinder, which is actually a larger form of Chinese Handcuffs, and leaves her no way to escape.
But when Arachne calls her small spiders to attack Annabeth, the Argo II comes and blasts a hole in the ceiling, which causes debris to fall and crack holes in the floor, which falls down to Tartarus. Arachne and the trap gets knocked into Tartarus, as well as the other spiders. Percy reassures Annabeth, and the rest of the seven demigods go to store the Athena Parthenos on the ship.
But as they focus on that, Annabeth has web hooked around her foot that pulls her down into Tartarus. Percy tries to grab her and lift her back up, but he ends up falling down with her. When the other demigods notice after securing the statue, it’s too late, and they decide to travel to meet Percy and Annabeth on the other side of the Doors of Death on order to close them.
I enjoyed the Mark of Athena, and the character development between all of the demigods together was really well-done. I liked the main focus on Athena and Annabeth, and it was a relief that Percy got his memory back in the beginning. My favorite part was when Annabeth threw her dagger into the water for Percy to find, who then knocked out the Romans with water. I also liked the end where Annabeth outsmarted Arachne. Overall, there was a lot going on at once, but I thought it was a great book.
Summary:
Annabeth and the other Camp Half-Bloods fly into Camp Jupiter on Argo II right after the Roman camp ended their battle with the army of giants. Annabeth and Percy are finally reunited, and the Romans throw a feast. Afterward, they discuss the Prophecy of the Seven and agree that they need to go to actual Greece and Rome to fulfill the prophecy. Annabeth meets Reyna and they chat about the Mark of Athena, which is something that Athena told Annabeth to find and gave her a cursed coin gift to follow.
Suddenly, the Argo II starts firing cannons at the Roman camp, and Annabeth and Percy race to the ship to find out what’s going on. They realize that Leo was the one firing on the ship, but he was being controlled by the cold figure that Annabeth had seen. All of the seven Prophecy kids fly away on the ship before the Romans destroy it any more, and they fly to Salt Lake City to repair it with scraps they find around the lake, and decide to voyage to Rome to stop the giants from awakening Gaea. Hazel and Leo go to find some discarded Celestial Bronze, and they meet Nemesis, who tells them a bit of their fortune.
Then they find Narcissis and a former nymph named Echo, and they manage to get the Celestial Bronze from Narcissis, who is using it to look at his reflection. Then they go back to the ship to repair, and they all have a discussion about the prophecy and what they need to do next. Piper uses her knife blade to see certain images, and sees a place in Kansas where they might need to go to do something, as well as finish the full repairs on the ship.
When they arrive, they make a plan and head toward a mile marker where Piper saw Dionysus near in the blade of her knife. They find Dionysus—or Bacchus in Roman form—and Piper realizes that he’s the one who should help them on their quest. So Bacchus tells them to seek out Phorcys, one of Gaea’s sons, in Atlanta to help them find out what to do with the twin giants of the prophecy.
Bacchus leaves right after they find out that Gaea has a trap sprung where they are, and she needs the blood of a female and male demigod for her plans. She lets some eidolons—possessing spirits from the Underworld—take control of Jason and Percy and make them fight each other. Piper, who is there, manages to knock out both of them with Blackjack’s help, and the get back to Argo II.
When they have a discussion at the ship, they figure out that the eidolons must have controlled Leo to make him fire cannons at the Romans. Piper comes up with a clever trick with her charmspeak to see if any of the eidolons are in the room, and manages to make the eidolons leave and not return.
Afterward, they continue sailing toward Atlanta, and Jason tells Piper about the Mark of Athena and how some children of Athena are chosen to find an object that the Romans took and hid in Rome millennia ago, using the actual Mark of Athena to guide them.
Percy has a dream about Nico di Angelo trapped in a jar by twin giants, and later they discuss that they have five days to save him. Nico was also in the Underworld looking for the Doors of Death, so he would be able to tell them where they are in order to close them and stop monsters from reappearing so fast. When they land in the woods of Atlanta, Percy, Frank, and Coach Hedge—who is with them on the trip—go to scout around.
They go inside an aquarium where they think Phorcys the giant might be located, and they find Phorcys there who might be able to tell them information for their quest. The sea god gives them a tour of the aquarium, showing them some trapped Greek sea creatures, and then he traps Percy and Frank in an underwater tank while Coach Hedge wanders away.
They find a way to break the glass and escape the aquarium after Phorcys tells Percy that the twin giants in Rome had trapped Ares in a jar before, and also that there is an important map in Charleston. The map is also supposed to lead to the Mark of Athena, and may help them heal rift between the fighting Romans and Greeks.
So Percy, Frank, and Coach Hedge run to the ship and fly away to Charleston. On the ship, Annabeth has a flashback to when Athena gave her the Mark of Athena. When they arrive, Jason takes Leo and Frank to a museum with the hopes of finding the map there. Meanwhile, Annabeth takes Hazel and Piper to a place in Charleston where Jason had been before and seen a ghost with information.
When Annabeth and her group goes and finds the ghost—who turns out to be Aphrodite—and she tends then to God the map for the Mark of Athena in Fort Sumter. Right afterward, some Romans fly in on eagles, and are about to battle Annabeth, Piper, and Hazel, when Percy comes out of the water and knocks them out with water. When they get to Fort Sumter, Annabeth hears someone tell her that she will have to face someone to do with spiders, and she finds a bronze disc that she takes back with her.
She finds that the Romans have brought their legion onto the deck, and Annabeth talks with Reyna before making it back into Argo II. Percy tells Annabeth that he met a Nereid when he was underwater who told him to find Chiron’s brothers, and the Nereid gave him coordinates where Coach Hedge starts steering the boat toward.
Meanwhile, Hazel takes Leo into one of her memories from when she was alive a while ago, and shows him a person named Sammy who is unnaturally similar to Leo. Then the flashback shifts to Sammy who is now older, and who turns out to be the great-grandfather of Leo. Suddenly—out of the flashback—a sea monster attacks the ship, and Leo grabs and throws a vial of Greek fire to defeat it before being launched into the sea with one of the tentacles.
He soon discovers that he’s trapped in an underwater cave, but still able to breathe with a thin layer of oxygen. Afterward, some fish centaurs come and question Hazel, Frank, and Leo, and they approve that the demigods are good. Then the fish centaurs send Leo with the information to tell Annabeth to go to the River Tiber and talk to Tiberinus to start the actual path of the Mark of Athena.
They also figure out that the path would lead them to the source, which is the Athena Parthenon statue that has disappeared, and likely taken by the Romans. As they’re sailing near the Mediterranean, they have to stop at the entrance, which Hercules is guarding. Piper and Jason go to talk to him, and he makes them go and break another horn off of Achelous, who is nearby, in order to enter.
So Piper and Jason do as he asks, and they are able to steal his other horn, but since they think Hercules isn’t a great person, Piper has the idea to use the horn as the cornucopia it can turn into, and shower food on top of Hercules, trapping him. They make it back onto the ship and continue, when Percy has a dream of the twin giants talking with a mysterious figure in a cave.
Afterward, the Argo II gets raided by dolphin-like people and a son of Poseidon named Chrysaor and who is covered with golden armor. Percy gets a good idea to ward off the dolphin-men by telling them that the one person they fear—Dionysus—is nearby, so they get scared and leave, along with Chrysaor.
When they land in Rome, Percy and Annabeth go to follow the Mark of Athena, Hazel, Frank, and Leo go to find where Nico is, and Piper and Jason stay to guard the ship. As Percy and Annabeth go to speak with Tiberinus, the god of Tiber River, he tells them that Annabeth must go alone into a dark cavern underground. Annabeth does so, and starts her journey through the darkness.
She finds a room with ghosts who are followers of Mithras. She manages to trick them and get out of the room after collapsing it, but then falls through another door and breaks her ankle. She finds a makeshift splint and continues on, making her way past a chasm by weaving thread she had found to make a path. In the next cavern, she finds Arachne, the weaver who was cursed to turn into a huge spider.
Arachne is guarding the Athena Parthenos, which is where the Mark of Athena led Annabeth to find, in order to restore the peace between the Roman and Greek demigods. Meanwhile, Hazel, Frank, and Leo are tracking Nico. Hazel leads them to Pantheon, where Leo finds an opening to an underground passageway through a marble column.
Once they go down, they find out that the three possessing eidolons from before have come back to kill Leo and the others. The eidolons possess a few suits of armor machinery, knock out Frank and Hazel, and chase Leo into a room, which he locks. Leo holds them off while he tries to figure out the combination to an invention of Archimedes that they found underground, but it doesn’t work.
So he decides to use his one-time use fortune cookie from the goddess Nemesis and ask for the combination, which she tells Leo. Leo quickly activates the machines to help his friends, and then hacks the eidolon’s suits of armor to turn on themselves and force them to leave.
When Frank and Hazel wake up, Gaea uses a mirror to talk to the demigods and trap them in the room, right before Leo makes a plan to escape. Back at the ship, Piper and Jason see Percy heading back, and Piper sees a room through her sword blade where Nico is supposed to be.
So she, Jason, and Percy go to the room, where they find nine ancient nymphs who once hid Zeus from Kronos when he was a baby. The nymphs want revenge since they were trapped there for centuries, and they fill the closed room with murky poisoned water.
To escape, Piper and the others use the cornucopia horn to spew fresh water, and cleanse the nymphs in the process. The nymphs thank them, and they continue toward Nico. When they enter the room where Nico is, the twin giants are there, and Nico is released from the jar. Jason, Piper, and Percy battle the giants, but aren’t able to completely kill them without the help of a god.
But just in time, Bacchus—or Dionysus—comes and helps them out, only because the demigods had offered a tribute to him with a sunken ship. Once the giants are defeated, they talk to Nico, who says that he was looking for and found the Doors of Death, which need to be closed in both the mortal side and the Underworld side, which is Tartarus.
Meanwhile, Annabeth holds Arachne from killing her by promising to bring Arachne’s tapestries to Olympus on display. Annabeth convinces the huge spider to unravel the webbing on the Athena Parthenos to make a cylinder piece of “artwork” to show to the gods. Once Arachne does this, Annabeth checks the cylinder and tricks Arachne to go inside and fix a flaw. Arachne gets trapped in the cylinder, which is actually a larger form of Chinese Handcuffs, and leaves her no way to escape.
But when Arachne calls her small spiders to attack Annabeth, the Argo II comes and blasts a hole in the ceiling, which causes debris to fall and crack holes in the floor, which falls down to Tartarus. Arachne and the trap gets knocked into Tartarus, as well as the other spiders. Percy reassures Annabeth, and the rest of the seven demigods go to store the Athena Parthenos on the ship.
But as they focus on that, Annabeth has web hooked around her foot that pulls her down into Tartarus. Percy tries to grab her and lift her back up, but he ends up falling down with her. When the other demigods notice after securing the statue, it’s too late, and they decide to travel to meet Percy and Annabeth on the other side of the Doors of Death on order to close them.
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I forgot just how much I love this series. Mark of Athena is the best one yet.
I have a hard time getting past my childhood dislike of Annabeth but I’m working on it
medium-paced
percabeth <33333333333333333
nem fiquei triste com o final
nem fiquei triste com o final
EEEK! Such a good book, with all its twists and turns! I definitely recommend the series!!! Now how am I gonna survive until the next book comes out in Fall 2013??????
was very good although it took me like 5 months to read cuz i kept getting distracted
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I think this books my favorite in the series so far. Kept me on the edge the whole time and I love the characters
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes