The Titan’s Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3) in Unknown Anonymity

May 14, 2014 Ji Mei rated it really liked it

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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Review 7/4/22:

It's been a few days since I finished this book, in audiobook form of course, so my memory is a bit hazy. Especially since I leaped to book 4 right after. In any case, this is the book where things actually get dangerous in the story. Of course in the books before all the half-bloods are in danger, and Percy fights for his life as monsters attack. But in this book, you really grasp that this is a story where sometimes there's tragedy and unhappy endings.

So for a quick summary, thi Review 7/4/22:

It's been a few days since I finished this book, in audiobook form of course, so my memory is a bit hazy. Especially since I leaped to book 4 right after. In any case, this is the book where things actually get dangerous in the story. Of course in the books before all the half-bloods are in danger, and Percy fights for his life as monsters attack. But in this book, you really grasp that this is a story where sometimes there's tragedy and unhappy endings.

So for a quick summary, this is the book where the siblings Bianca and Nico di Angelo show up, this is where Artemis and Zoe and the other hunters show up, and this is where the titan Atlas shows up. And this is when Bianca dies. And Zoe, which I didn't really remember happening at all. But I remembered Bianca's death, but for some reason I thought it happened later after we got to know her more. Oh and Thalia is back for a little while, clashes with Percy in leadership roles, and then she becomes a huntress too. Oh andd this is the one with the Hoover Dam and this is when Rachel Elizabeth Dare shows up.

Anyways, when it comes to my rating, I'm on the border. Maybe if I were to be a little more precise, I guess this book is around a 3.75 stars for me? I like the conflict between Thalia and Percy and it's completely believable; I like the conflict of Thalia and Annabeth vs Luke. And I really enjoyed certain moments like Dionysus getting more serious or as soon as I realized that the sky was the thing that Annabeth was holding up (I think when I first read it I didn't guess who was Atlas at all), but I think this time around I remembered around the time when Zoe confessed about knowing Hercules that I began to remember the titan's curse, Atlas's curse, was holding up the sky.

As far as characters go, I enjoyed it all immensely. Wished we had more characterization for Bianca so that when she died, it had more of an impact. Her death vaguely gave me the same vibes as Jet in Avatar Last Airbender. The death off screen thing where you feel like it's meant to be official, but you can't believe since it happened off screen.

I really really got annoyed with the narrator in this book. Again because the narrator got some of his voices mixed up and I wasn't a fan of his impression of horses/pegasi talking. Which is a shame that did affect my enjoyment reading this time. Most of the time I don't mind, but things like the voice for Dionysus has changed since the first book and I rather preferred the first version.

Overall, it was a pretty good middle of the series book. It definitely upped the stakes and I think things like Luke's feelings towards the gods is pretty understandable. I did not like the ending with Nico going "You broke your promise about protecting my sister". It's a very typical story trope which I'm never a fan of and also Percy never made any promise to that exactness. I guess Nico is 10 after all and grieving so I guess he isn't thinking rationally at all, but it still just ends the book with a slight negative for me too. ...more

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