2025 Reading Challenge discussion

I've been hearing some news about a possible reboot for the Percy Jackson series, which will be a TV series this time. No news yet on which network will pick this up but it is highly rumored to be Disney. Given the subpar movie adaptation of the first two books, I have high hopes for this reboot.

Ice wrote: "I've been hearing some news about a possible reboot for the Percy Jackson series, which will be a TV series this time. No news yet on which network will pick this up but it is highly rumored to be ..."

I can only ever picture Ares as he was portrayed by Kevin Smith in the Xena and Hercules TV shows. Sadly, he died in an accidental fall in 2002.

I have not started reading this yet, it will be late in the month, I think.

Okay, I'm reading it.

I know I'm a little down on this series in general, but this made me laugh, in chapter 5: (view spoiler)[

- ...a McDonald's Happy Meal.
He turned it upside down and shook the fries and hamburger into the grave.
"In my day, we used animal blood," the ghost mumbled. "It's perfectly good enough. They can't taste the difference."
"I will treat them with respect," Nico said.
"At least let me keep the toy," the ghost said.

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This was alright, probably the best of the series to date. I particularly enjoyed the flashbacks that revealed Daedalus' past. Of course Percy has to have girl trouble and not even know it or understand what is going on; required for this type of book.

I have the final book ready to go. I will be on a mini-vacation in mid-November with plenty of reading time and this is one of the titles that I am bringing for a possible pool-side read.

Kristin wrote: "Ice and Marc, is it just the two of you continuing on with this series?"

Hey Kristin, I'm a little late with my readings, but I intend to finish this series.

Yep, looks like just you and me, Ice, let's get it done.

Marc wrote: "This was alright, probably the best of the series to date. I particularly enjoyed the flashbacks that revealed Daedalus' past. Of course Percy has to have girl trouble and not even know it or under..."

Well, I mean, they are young!!

I finished over the weekend and I think this one was my favorite.

I’ll be sad when we read book 5 and I’ll be done with Percy! I can definitely see why this series is beloved. At my age, I found them to be the perfect “unwind” books. Percy and Grover made me chuckle.

I owned books 1-4 but I don’t own #5 so hopefully it’ll be available from the library soon.

Allie wrote: "I finished over the weekend and I think this one was my favorite.

I’ll be sad when we read book 5 and I’ll be done with Percy! I can definitely see why this series is beloved. At my age, I found t..."

Aren't there a bunch more books with Percy? He shows up somewhere in the Heroes of Olympus series anyway per the book blurbs.

Are there?!

I knew about that series but didn’t know if Percy was a character.

Thanks!