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A review by lauren_readsbooks2302
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
4.0
I knew this was a children’s book going into the series so I was surprised but pleased when a couple of the characters in the book died.
I know that sounds weird, because unless they’re evil, why would I be happy about characters dying? But this book shows that sometimes, some of the good characters have to die to further the story and that it’s okay for characters to stay dead once they die.
Most of the time in fantasy books when a character dies only for them to be brought back, it kind of leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
I also love reading these books from Percys point of view because you know as the reader that he has feelings for Annabeth long before he does and if that isn’t the most accurate thing in the world. What 14 year old boy isn’t entirely clueless about how girls feel or even how they feel about girls?
Annabeth’s dad was the winner for me in this book, since I was so wrongly robbed of Tyson content. I get he’s away living his best life in the forges beneath the sea but I really did miss him in this book. Annabeth’s dad was absolutely not how I imagined he would be, either. In the first two books, I imagined him as a suited business man, stiff and proper and sneering at the trouble his daughter brought into his home, but instead we’re gifted with a dorky historian who flies his own world war 2 plane and shoots at Titans to save his daughter. I absolutely loved him.
I know that sounds weird, because unless they’re evil, why would I be happy about characters dying? But this book shows that sometimes, some of the good characters have to die to further the story and that it’s okay for characters to stay dead once they die.
Most of the time in fantasy books when a character dies only for them to be brought back, it kind of leaves a sour taste in my mouth.
I also love reading these books from Percys point of view because you know as the reader that he has feelings for Annabeth long before he does and if that isn’t the most accurate thing in the world. What 14 year old boy isn’t entirely clueless about how girls feel or even how they feel about girls?
Annabeth’s dad was the winner for me in this book, since I was so wrongly robbed of Tyson content. I get he’s away living his best life in the forges beneath the sea but I really did miss him in this book. Annabeth’s dad was absolutely not how I imagined he would be, either. In the first two books, I imagined him as a suited business man, stiff and proper and sneering at the trouble his daughter brought into his home, but instead we’re gifted with a dorky historian who flies his own world war 2 plane and shoots at Titans to save his daughter. I absolutely loved him.