Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Hopefully It’s Almost Over

The Tyrant's Tomb (Trials of Apollo 4) by Rick Riordan

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Start with a zombie attack while transporting a fallen comrade home, using tattoos to decipher bits of prophecy, metal greyhounds (robot dogs seem a little out of place but it does kind of work), a bookstore cat, trying to figure out how to counter a massive attack/invasion on Camp Jupiter, and facing off against formerly dead (?) emperor of Rome (the nastier ones), and conclude with some of Lester’s godliness starting to come back in time for what hopefully is the final face off against […]

Is Rick Riordan Finally Wearing Out?

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I’ve been having some doubts about the Trials of Apollo series. It doesn’t have a terribly interesting heroic character or group, it seems to rely too much on the popularity of previous series’ characters and events, and the plot’s been dragging for two books so far. I was ready to give up after this one. I’m still not sure, so maybe that’s in favor of The Burning Maze? Apollo, Meg, and Grover are still searching for oracles to free and evil emperors to defeat. They’ve […]

How would blemmyae react to cussing?

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I’m not sure what to make of the Trials of Apollo series. I’ve really liked Rick Riordan’s other series Percy Jackson and Magnus Chase, and while there are plenty of shared features and characters, this series just doesn’t have quite the same fun factor. The Blemmyae are probably the best villain assistants since the Minions, made especially entertaining by the fact that Riordan presents them as stereotypes of Midwestern nice/Stepford wives. Since I’m originally from Minnesota, I find it funnier than maybe I should the […]

I feel like I’ve been reading this book for a lot longer then I actually have been reading it

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The Blood of Olympus is the final book in Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus series, which is the second series in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles. In addition, it’s part of the same universe as his Kane Chronicles and the Magnus Chase series (I’ve read and loved the former, haven’t started the latter yet.) And someday, I’m sure, Riordan is going to write a book where all of his heroes meet and it will either be absolutely crazy or epically awesome. I will probably read it […]

Percy Jackson is missing, but here’s a new bunch of demi-god teens to hang out with instead

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Jason has amnesia. He wakes up on a school bus on the way to the Grand Canyon with what appears to be his very confused girlfriend (Piper) and a bemused, slightly disbelieving best friend (Leo) who both seem very surprised that he can’t remember spending the last few months together at the “Wilderness School”, a boarding school for juvenile delinquents. Not that the field trip to the Canyon makes things better. One of the other school kids sprouts wings, and tries to kill Jason and […]



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