The Mark of Athena

        The Mark of Athena is the third book in The Heroes of Olympus series. This book is a delightful spin-off of the Percy Jackson series. It is a great book, and like the Percy Jackson series it is based on Greek and roman mythology. It has a moral throughout the whole story of coming together to fight the enemy not each other. Rick Riordan is perhaps one my favorite authors to read because his stories are imaginative easy to follow and almost always leaves you wanting more. Although this book is imaginative it is quite difficult to keep up with because of the fast pace. Other than the fast paced story telling it did everything I had hoped for from my favorite author.

        In the previous two books The Lost Hero and Son of Neptune we meet some new characters including the most important Jason. Also we learned that Percy and Jason have lost their memories and have been somehow transported to each others camps. In The Lost Hero Jason arrives at camp half blood and has to regain his memory. While in Son of Neptune Percy is doing the same only with the memory of Annabeth’s face and in Camp Jupiter. Finally now in the third book we see the two worlds meet.

            Annabeth is on her way with Jason, Piper, and Leo to Camp Jupiter in the Argo III to get Percy and try to unite the two camps. While the evil earth goddess Gaea plans to unleash her giant sons to take them under her control. Then after some talking some uneasy arguments the camps unite to fight the earth goddess. However along the way they must face some other conflicts other than the war ahead.

So just to recap The Mark of Athena was an amazing book. I can relate this book to The Hobbit because of the unique way in which the story is told. Also this book is based on the simple life moral of join together and fight the bigger issue that is on hand. Finally as I said before my only concern with the book is the tempo may be a little too fast for some readers. In a nutshell this book was fun and exciting to read and for these reasons I give The Mark of Athena an A.