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I cried a lot during this book, especially towards the end! I love how Apollo has become a lot more human despite his powers starting to come back. I really liked Reyna in this book, especially closer to the end! Seeing Apollo miss Artemis and vice versa was really sweet! I can't decide if this was my favorite or not so far, but it was definitely amazing and had fantastic character interactions and character development!

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3.5!

I liked The Tyrant's Tomb a little bit less than The Burning Maze. The initial half of the book started off incredibly slow but the second half was a drastic change in my enjoyment. As usual, I loved Apollo's character arc and it was fun seeing the previous cast of characters from the The Heroes of Olympus series. Without spoiling too much, I appreciated how Rick handled the conclusion of Reyna's arc from The Heroes of Olympus - she was far from my favorite character in those books but I've quickly grown to like her in this.

What I didn't like was how this book introduced a new villain that was non-threatening IMO. It felt like a filler to the series finale and didn't contribute a whole ton to the story. I still don't particularly like Meg as a protagonist and felt like

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Caligula and Commodus were taken down way too fast.

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I don't like how Rick just magically explained away how Frank survived despite seemingly sacrificing himself to take Caligula down. If you could just save him with a half-assed explanation like that, surely Jason didn't need to die in the previous novel.

All my grievances aside, this was okay. I had fun coming back to Camp Jupiter and I'm looking forward to seeing how Rick chooses to end this series.

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