Back For Another Spin

Back for Another Spin

by: Nathan B.

Rick Riordan has come out with the final book in The Heros of Olympus, The Blood of Olympus. At 516 pager long it is quite a read. Some of his other series include the Kane Chronicles and the Percy Jackson series. This book represents the fiction genre.  It is about demigods who are on a quest started by a prophecy. A demigod is a human that has some god powers because they have a god as one of their parents. The prophecy states that one of them will die during their quest.  They need to gather the ingredients of the physician's cure so they can revive their dead friend. The Roman demigods are on the verge of launching an assault on the Greek demigod camp and Renya, Nico, and Coach Hedge need to bring the Athena Parthenos to the Greek camp so they will not declare war. At the same time, the rest of the crew will need to be sure not to spill blood at Gaea's awakening ritual and make it to the Greek camp too.

I think the book was a good ending to this series. The ending of the book was a clever add-on especially when you read the two chapters before it. It makes you think it happened, which it did, and the unexpected happens.  I didn't like how the flashbacks to the Roman and Greek tension wasn't the descriptive as the main story. I like how it continued right from the last book and didn't explain what happened in the last book which makes you want to read the fifth book.

I think this is a great book to read, but you must read the books before this one if you haven't.  This is because it has a great plot and storyline, while not making it more extreme than the other books.

You can find this book at your local library, or buy it at a bookstore.