The Mark of Athena

The book I read was The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan. Riordan is the author of the Percy Jackson series and the new Heroes of Olympusseries. The mark of Athena is the 3rd book of the series. The theme of this book is Greek mythology in modern days. The genre is fantasy fiction and action. This book compared to the other books is different because the story is told through 4 demigods on 3rd person omniscient. The mark of Athena will have readers wanting to read each page after page of plot twist and turns.

In the mark if Athena they are 7 demigods Leo, Jason, Percy, Annabeth, Frank, Hazel, Piper. However we only get to hear the story from Percy, Leo, Piper, and Annabeth. In the series the heroes of Olympus they were 2 books already out before the mark of Athena the Lost Hero and the Son ofNeptune. Those 2 books led up to the mark of Athena introducing each character and their background. Jason, Leo, and piper came from the lost hero. Hazel, Frank, and Percy came from the son of Neptune. However Percy was the main protagonist in the previous series Percy Jackson and the Olympians this series was told in 1st person through Percy Jackson. Also Annabeth was a main character in the series but not the protagonist. In this new series Percy Jackson of camp half-blood (a place where Greek demigods live and train to survive) and Jason grace of camp Jupiter (a place where roman demigods live and train) have their memories wiped and placed into different camps by Hera the goddess. After some time they both regain their memories and Leo builds a ship and goes to camp Jupiter to pick up the 3 heroes to fulfill the great prophecy. The great prophecy is 7 demigods of different camps must work together and stop the earth goddess Gaea from awakening from her sleep so by now they all know who is going. So when they pick up the 3 demigods the romans attack thinking the Greeks were going to attack them. However 3 demigods still make it to the ship. Now that the 7 demigods are together they must sail to Rome to defeat twin giant monsters sent by Gaea to kill the demigods but when the demigods arrive at Rome Annabeth has a solo mini quest on her own the mark of Athena. Since her mother is Athena the goddess of wisdom Annabeth has to do it alone this pains Percy Jackson because Annabeth is her girlfriend and does not want her to die because all the children of Athena have failed the quest to find their mothers statue. Annabeth finds her statue but it is being guarded by Athena’s enemy Arachne the mortal turned spider woman by Athena after she was talking bad stuff about Athena and all children of Athena have a terrible phobia of spiders due to that. So Annabeth is horribly terrified but she snaps out of it and think of a plan to stop her so she tricks arachne into making her own trap out of webbing so Annabeth gets the statue and her friends find her and take the statue but arachne shakes the place till the floor collapses opening up the pit to tarteres (a pit filled with horrible monsters) arachne falls in and Annabeth is hanging off the ledge and Percy helps her but they both fall into the pit leaving their friends behind. The book ends with the 5 demigods searching for the demigods the statue is in their possession now.

I recommend this book to others because it has something for everybody. Like, romance, drama, action/adventure, comedy, and fantasy. If you hadn’t the heroes of Olympus book 1 and 2 also if you hadn’t read the Percy Jackson series I would NOT read this book. You will be completely lost so I would take your time.

Fun facts

Percy and Annabeth are the only main characters to appear in both series. These 7 demigods have their own powers. Percy is the son Poseidon making him a very powerful demigod. He has multiple water powers he can breathe under water and swim faster than anybody. Also he can communicate with horses and sea creatures and he has all control over water but limited because he will get very drained out. Jason is the son of Jupiter also making him a very powerful demigod. He can control the winds making him fly and shoot blast of wind and lighting. Piper is the daughter of Aphrodite the goddess of love. Her powers are charmspeak meaning she can convince people to do whatever she wants. Leo is the son of Hephaestus making him good with machines. He can build anything and he has a rare power to control fire and shoot fire projectiles. Frank is the son of mars. Him moms side has a power to shape shift. He has no special demigod powers. Hazel is the daughter of Pluto. She died in the 1940’s but her father brought her back to life. Her powers are she can detect any type of special metal. Annabeth is the daughter of Athena making her very smart and crafty. She has no special powers but she can be very dangerous with her mind. Also her boyfriend is Percy Jackson. 

Book Review by Abdul S.