So, it's finally here! So excited about it, went out after school and bought it straightaway. Got right into from the start, thought It was everything I could have expected. Their reunion went down as expected, but in a way only the main man Riordan could have pulled it off. The story was fascinating, The Mark of Athena deal was really original, utterly brilliant with the spiders (got a thing about them myself), the Jason-Percy thing went down as I expected- not a fight between them, but with something else forcing them to do so. Classic humour all the way through, Percy and Annabeth make a brilliant couple, and the ending... such a cliffhanger have I never been witness to. Still trying to get my head around the shock that ending caused. It's brilliant guys, you've got o get out there and read that! Read it through the night, took me about 5 hours, loved every second.
Obvious to say, then, that i'm looking to forward to the next instalement, and the Fanfictions. We don't have a lot to go on for the next book, but time will pass.
Mark of Athena FTW