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A review by eesh25
The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan
4.0
Took me a while to get my thoughts in order. I honestly thought I was over my reading slump. And in a way, I am. Just have to take things slow. And avoid big books.
This book isn't that big, but it also isn't that small. And we again have a whole lot of names I can't pronounce (though there's a guide provided). Seriously, where do all these giants and their names even come from? Half the problem while reading came from there. The other half came from Alex, but we'll discuss that later.
This is the final novel of the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy. Loki's free and his ship of nails is almost ready to sail. And as soon as it sets off, with Loki on board, Ragnarök will begin. It's up to Magnus and the crew to stop him from sailing or the world will end. But since that requires a sea voyage, Annabeth suggests that he gets some helpful tips from, none other than, Percy Jackson. By the way, ending the last book with a tease like that was so not cool.
But yeah, Percy's in the book. Not for long, because uncle Rick lives to torture his fans, but he's there and it's awesome. Percy's my favourite person in the whole world.
Afterwards, they're off. There are a lot of giants and gods and god-giants. They get vague clues about what they should do and have to figure the rest of the stuff out on their own. The book is funny, as usual, with lots of exciting adventures. Magnus is a great protagonist. And another great thing in the novel was how each character (like Mallory, TJ and Halfborn) got their moment to shine. There was lots of getting-to-know and development for each character.
My favourite of the series is still Hearthstone. I can't explain it, but I don't think there's any character who makes me as fiercely protective as he does. I want to tuck him into the world's most comfortable bed, wrapped in the softest blankets, in the world's coziest room and, outside the room, post the Avengers on guard duty. It's that bad. He's just so... good and innocent. He's also has the worst. He was shunned by his entire species. And then his brother died and his father put him through so much. Basically, I love him and I will, honest to God, murder anyone who hurts him.
Hearthstone aside, I like all the other characters too. It was really great finally getting to know where they came from. One character that bothered me was Alex (for the sake of the review, I will be referring to Alex as a he), who I loved in Hammer of Thor.
It's wasn't a huge thing. Alex still kicks major butt. The problem was with his relationship with Magnus. I felt that he was a bit too harsh. He's harsh with everyone but with Magnus, he was almost cruel. To the point where Magnus doubted he (Alex) cared about him (Magnus) at all. Magnus has low (or zero) self-esteem in the first place and the way Alex treated him was like kicking a man when he's down. It was unnecessary and I didn't like it.
Other than that, things were fantastic. This was a great novel. Loved the ending. It concluded the current storyline perfectly, while also dropping hints of a future Norse series, one that I would be very interested in. Fingers crossed that uncle Rick writes it.
This book isn't that big, but it also isn't that small. And we again have a whole lot of names I can't pronounce (though there's a guide provided). Seriously, where do all these giants and their names even come from? Half the problem while reading came from there. The other half came from Alex, but we'll discuss that later.
This is the final novel of the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy. Loki's free and his ship of nails is almost ready to sail. And as soon as it sets off, with Loki on board, Ragnarök will begin. It's up to Magnus and the crew to stop him from sailing or the world will end. But since that requires a sea voyage, Annabeth suggests that he gets some helpful tips from, none other than, Percy Jackson. By the way, ending the last book with a tease like that was so not cool.
But yeah, Percy's in the book. Not for long, because uncle Rick lives to torture his fans, but he's there and it's awesome. Percy's my favourite person in the whole world.
Afterwards, they're off. There are a lot of giants and gods and god-giants. They get vague clues about what they should do and have to figure the rest of the stuff out on their own. The book is funny, as usual, with lots of exciting adventures. Magnus is a great protagonist. And another great thing in the novel was how each character (like Mallory, TJ and Halfborn) got their moment to shine. There was lots of getting-to-know and development for each character.
My favourite of the series is still Hearthstone. I can't explain it, but I don't think there's any character who makes me as fiercely protective as he does. I want to tuck him into the world's most comfortable bed, wrapped in the softest blankets, in the world's coziest room and, outside the room, post the Avengers on guard duty. It's that bad. He's just so... good and innocent. He's also has the worst. He was shunned by his entire species. And then his brother died and his father put him through so much. Basically, I love him and I will, honest to God, murder anyone who hurts him.
Hearthstone aside, I like all the other characters too. It was really great finally getting to know where they came from. One character that bothered me was Alex (for the sake of the review, I will be referring to Alex as a he), who I loved in Hammer of Thor.
It's wasn't a huge thing. Alex still kicks major butt. The problem was with his relationship with Magnus. I felt that he was a bit too harsh. He's harsh with everyone but with Magnus, he was almost cruel. To the point where Magnus doubted he (Alex) cared about him (Magnus) at all. Magnus has low (or zero) self-esteem in the first place and the way Alex treated him was like kicking a man when he's down. It was unnecessary and I didn't like it.
Other than that, things were fantastic. This was a great novel. Loved the ending. It concluded the current storyline perfectly, while also dropping hints of a future Norse series, one that I would be very interested in. Fingers crossed that uncle Rick writes it.