A review by classyklassen
The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

5.0

I LOVED this book. this is just such an amazing continuation of the story; the adventure is exciting, it continues on logically from the past few books and you can feel the tension and the stakes slowly starting to rise, we get the first battle and some more half-blood deaths, we really start to see Luke's point of view more and it sets up the final book fantastically. this was also just so funny! like this is nothing new but I always forget just how funny these books are until I reread them. petty bitchy annabeth is so fun to see and the development of her as percy's relationship is just...🤭❤️🤫🫶😚❤️‍🔥💅🥰🤪👍😌 had me giggling and swinging my legs! 

also I totally forgot about this but when she reveals the end of the prophecy "and to lose a love worse than death" it was actually about luke but she thought it was going to be percy?? when they split up?? and she kissed him😭😭😭 also all the pan stuff was better than I remembered and also the lead up to it (particularly when percy is cleaning up the horse shit from the ranch lmao) was nice to see upon reread

. always love to see tyson and moody nico and more of my fav mortal girl rachel. the flow of this story was also just amazing, it was just so tight and never felt clunky which is a problem I've been having recently with some books (cough cough sarah j maas). there was some random elements that didn't age well (harriet tubman being a daughter of hermes that used the labyrinth as the underground railroad?? what😭😭😭) and 

the part where percy goes to the forge and sees those telkhine dog things and the teacher randomly just explains exactly what they are, what they're doing and there evil plans by going "what do we want? to kill the gods!! and who do we serve?? Kronos!!" like that was laughably unsubtle I feel like there could have been a better way for percy to get that information lmao. also I love the addition of calypso and her story! and the ending with nico is great too (and his entire arc/storyline is fantastic) especially cause I know what he's talking about in that final scene.

  4.75 stars