Ratings44
Average rating4.3
Percy is a fantastic and wonderful narrator, and the audiobook narrator was really good at finding Percy's voice for it, which was great. I think putting lots of modern references in the dialogue (like tempting a god with cookies) was a clever way to make the storylines feel more modern too, like the amount of times the word ‘babe' shows up in this book is honestly probably too many. I wasn't kidding when I said the male gods all sound like jocks, lmao.
As a remnant of the old stories, I'm sure, there was a repetitiveness in the stories which was rather tedious at times. The amount of times Zeus raped females (because they weren't always goddesses or humans) is appalling (and Poseidon did it too!), and the gods getting mad at each other and killing someone else out of revenge or jealousy is just 🤦🏻♀️. You can only listen to the same thing happen to different people by the same people so many times before it goes stale.
Otherwise it was great.