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4.23 AVERAGE

adventurous funny mysterious 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

4.5 stars
adventurous medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging emotional funny 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

ALEX ALEX ALEX!!!! BEST CHARACTER!!!!!
adventurous challenging emotional funny 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: Complicated
adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

I’m so soft for Hearthstone.

Once again, Mr. Rick Riordan, pulls up with the best representation in the game. Alex is the absolute best and I can’t wait to learn more about her/his background story! As usual, well written, fun, really cool world building, etc, etc. I can expect nothing less from Uncle Rick.

One of my absolute favourite parts of the story (and this is the most minor of spoilers, not actually relevant to the plot), is Magnus staring at Alex because he’s so very attracted to and confused by Alex and Alex getting angry at him for staring bc Alex thinks Magnus is staring because he’s like minorly transphobic or smtg. Iconic. Two dysfunctional legends.

adventurous medium-paced

A great story and I appreciate the diversity and the inclusion of the gender fluid character 
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DID NOT FINISH: 25%

I struggled to get through the first book and was hoping this one would be better. I like the old and newly introduced characters but the writing was just too much for me. It felt like he had a page count to get to and need to say everything with as many words as possible.