Nathan H
If you've been following my recent journey through the Percy Jackson books, you may have noticed how little my enjoyment has been. These were beloved books from my childhood that I have, unfortunately, really not enjoyed this time around. Both Titan's Curse and Labyrinth were the best of the series by far, but that isn't exactly high praise.
The fact that this series culminated in such an odd, anti-climactic way didn't help. None of the characters (outside of Percy or Annabeth) had much depth to them and both Luke & Kronos have really weak motives or strong decision making. The fact that the entire series hinges on Luke, a character that was in a brief supportive role in book one and only really present for two scenes max each book thereafter, is really shitty. He is a boring, fill-in-the-blank character who only has ties to Annabeth, who tells him that she never even loved him during his final moments. Cool.
To show some "positivity", I really appreciated the way that Riordan wrote about absent parent relationships and how strongly that can impact a young person. The final two chapters were nice as well, as Riordan tied up loose ends (though he did create another one because $$$).
Fine book, decent series. Disappointed nonetheless.
If you've been following my recent journey through the Percy Jackson books, you may have noticed how little my enjoyment has been. These were beloved books from my childhood that I have, unfortunately, really not enjoyed this time around. Both Titan's Curse and Labyrinth were the best of the series by far, but that isn't exactly high praise.
The fact that this series culminated in such an odd, anti-climactic way didn't help. None of the characters (outside of Percy or Annabeth) had much depth to them and both Luke & Kronos have really weak motives or strong decision making. The fact that the entire series hinges on Luke, a character that was in a brief supportive role in book one and only really present for two scenes max each book thereafter, is really shitty. He is a boring, fill-in-the-blank character who only has ties to Annabeth, who tells him that she never even loved him during his final moments. Cool.
To show some "positivity", I really appreciated the way that Riordan wrote about absent parent relationships and how strongly that can impact a young person. The final two chapters were nice as well, as Riordan tied up loose ends (though he did create another one because $$$).
Fine book, decent series. Disappointed nonetheless.
Great introspection and quotes. Call me lame, but I find breakdowns of case studies to be really boring. Those chapters were a bit tough to get through. Maybe it's the school burn out (lol).
Great introspection and quotes. Call me lame, but I find breakdowns of case studies to be really boring. Those chapters were a bit tough to get through. Maybe it's the school burn out (lol).
Added to listBooks for Social Workerswith 29 books.
"If you are homeless or unemployed, a person with disabilities on a fixed income, if you have been exploited and excluded, incarcerated or evicted, this is your fight. If you are an undocumented immigrant, giving this country your sweat, your very body, but receiving few rights in return, or a worker shortchanged and kicked around by your company, this is your fight.
If you are one of the tens of millions of Americans scraping, pinching, living paycheck to paycheck, floating somewhere between poverty and security, this is your fight. If you are a young person fed up not only with impossibly expensive cities and $100,000 college degrees but also with polite excuses and insipid justifications for why things are the way they are, this is your fight.
If you have found security and prosperity and wish the same for your neighbors, if you demand a dignified life for all people in America, if you love fairness and justice and want no part in exploitation for personal gain, if all the hardship in your country violates your sense of decency, this is your fight, too."
"If you are homeless or unemployed, a person with disabilities on a fixed income, if you have been exploited and excluded, incarcerated or evicted, this is your fight. If you are an undocumented immigrant, giving this country your sweat, your very body, but receiving few rights in return, or a worker shortchanged and kicked around by your company, this is your fight.
If you are one of the tens of millions of Americans scraping, pinching, living paycheck to paycheck, floating somewhere between poverty and security, this is your fight. If you are a young person fed up not only with impossibly expensive cities and $100,000 college degrees but also with polite excuses and insipid justifications for why things are the way they are, this is your fight.
If you have found security and prosperity and wish the same for your neighbors, if you demand a dignified life for all people in America, if you love fairness and justice and want no part in exploitation for personal gain, if all the hardship in your country violates your sense of decency, this is your fight, too."
