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Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian by Rick Riordan

119 reviews

nevermoregothic's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and War

Moderate: Child death and Death

Minor: Blood and Death of parent

brekker_by_brekker's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

icedlemonade's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Abandonment, and War

kimduindam's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Love this! Can't wait to read more about Percy Jackson! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

moonyleo's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child death and Injury/Injury detail

sadie_g's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Violence

Minor: Gun violence

amschelly153's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Really enjoyed this series! Would recommend to anyone who enjoys green mythology and young adult fiction!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and War

mesta's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

5.0

loved this series so much omg <33 + percabeth <3

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Child death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abandonment

finnft4's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad 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

5.0

INCREDIBLE.

RANKING
[1] PJO: The Last Olympian
[2] HoO: The House of Hades
[3] HoO: The Mark of Athena
[4] PJO: The Lightning Thief
[5] PJO: The Titan's Curse
[6] HoO: The Son of Neptune
[7] PJO: The Battle of the Labyrinth
[8] HoO: The Lost Hero
[9] PJO: The Sea of Monsters
[10] HoO: The Blood of Olympus 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and War

Moderate: Self harm

I'm not exaggerating in the slightest when I saw that this was AMAZING. It was somehow even better than what I was expecting. So much happened that it's difficult to recount it all, but not a single moment was boring. This was so GRIPPING. There was the right amount of death - and it was emotional. The climax was absolutely phenomenal and is absolutely one of my favorite scenes out of anything - ever. I had to put the book down after at some points, but especially after realizing how Luke was going to defeat Kronos. When Percy gave him the knife, and he began to aim it at his arm - HOLY SHIT. INSANE. Wow, Luke was a crazy character. I'm still not sure how I feel about him. I will admit that I do find Percy and Annabeth to be a bit boring at times (though I definitely still like them), but Luke Castellan was an absolutely thrilling antagonist. Great character. I loved the sickly combination of a sympathetic "villain" with one who is completely evil and irredeemable. It was a nice addition. I'd say that out of all the characters, Luke and Nico were probably my favorite ones to follow just because of how intriguing and different they are. Hades was also great in this book. Grover's still definitely one of my favorites, though. An absolutely fantastic read; great series overall.

rinku's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.0

 The Last Olympian is the last book of the original arc of the Percy Jackson series. In this aspect, this book delivers a satisfying conclusion to the story of Percy and his friends while showing at the same time how much the characters have grown. 

What I enjoyed about this novel was that we didn’t have one final fight at the end but instead, the final fight against Kronos to save Olympus spans almost the whole book with different waves of enemies that our heroes have to fight. This already starts at the beginning where Percy has to fight Kronos for the first time, showing us how high the stakes are right at the beginning. All fighting scenes are quite epic, and there’s a threatening atmosphere throughout this novel, mainly caused by the good old time pressure that’s prevalent in every book of the series. We also get more backstories for some characters; Luke is especially in the focus here and his backstory was just so sad. 

The finale itself was good but not much more, mainly because

the thing with Annabeth being able to get through to Luke and him killing himself for the greater good was a bit cliché. Luke honestly deserved better, it’s so sad how there was no other way out for him. Still, the ending was bittersweet, and I enjoy that Percy wants to change something about the status quo aka forcing the gods to accept every single child of them and making place for the lower gods in Camp Half-Blood

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I’ve said it in every of my reviews, but I love all the characters so much and it’s amazing to see how much they developed. Characters that especially stood out to me this time because I like them so much are Nico, Thalia, and Clarisse. Percy’s amazing as always and his feelings are portrayed so well here. The love triangle introduced in the previous book still annoyed me, just like some miscommunications happening. I also don’t know what to think about

Rachel becoming the new oracle, I have the feeling that with that, she’s just tossed aside like Thalia kinda was when she joined the huntresses

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All in all, The Last Olympian was my favorite book of the Percy Jackson series and a satisfying conclusion to this story arc. I got quite attached to the characters and hopefully, I will read The Hero of Olympus one day so that I can see how their story continues.  

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Infidelity