A review by troystory
The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan

3.0

Overall it has a strong plot and excellent characters, and I love how each book takes you to a different part of the United States so they each have a distinct vibe, which is cool. And the deaths in this book were gutting. I didn't see any of them coming and I was so shocked each time. I kept waiting for the characters to come back! However, I was really irked by the way Medea was written. She is a complex character and this book basically just turned her into a stock cartoon villain. Maybe some people can let that slide, but I just get bothered when "evil" women from mythology, who were clearly described as such because they were written from a misogynistic male perspective in a patriarchal society, continue to be labelled that way. Apart from that though, it was a fairly good book.