The Seven are written off one way or another so the spotlight stays on Apollo, and for good reason: we know them. In every book, the plot must be forced to stay focused on Apollo. Like, "Here's the characters we all know and love! Now pay attention to my OCs!" Trials of Apollo carries all the energy of an Apollo-centric fanfiction, in which the author adds a whole lot of meat to the character of Apollo, introduces a whole slew of new characters to keep things fresh, and brings in the OG cast for the sake of fan-pandering. However, here it is: the complete unification of all my thoughts and opinions on the Trials of Apollo, from the plot, the villains, the characters, the ultimate ending, and why it's all a legacy of failure and a monument of disrespect. Usually, I get several downvotes, so I'm curious as to how many this post will get. ![]() Sometimes the question comes along whether "Should I read Trials of Apollo?" and I always answer, "Hell no," then give a brief summary of everything wrong with it without going into detail. After that, I was having to force myself to read through Tomb and Tower because of how absolutely crushed I was with what Uncle Rick was doing with my heroes. From Oracle, it just got worse and worse, culminating in Maze with how Piper broke up with Jason and his subsequent death. ![]() With Oracle, I now understood how people felt about Lost when it came out in 2010 (dam, we're getting old). Then we got a year break until Trials came out, and I was an excited 16-year-old, eager to step back into the world of Percy Jackson. So, Percy Jackson got me started on my career as a writer. It got me started on my own writing, some of which you can find here. I got into fanfiction, which deepened my love of them after seeing everything the fans could come up with. Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Leo, Frank, Hazel, Reyna, and more. So, I was 11 when I read Neptune, Lost, and the OG series, 12 for Mark, 13 for House, 14 for Blood, and so and so forth. I grew up with the books in the sense I was the age of the year they came out. I'll oust myself here a little bit with this one, but I was born in 1999. I suppose another reason I'm not as critical of Heroes while I was reading it was because of how young I was. I read through that in time for Mark to come out, and then I was in the same boat with everyone else that had to wait on the new releases. Because I knew exactly where Percy was at, what he was doing, and that he was just fine, I was able to easily settle into Lost and get attached to Jason, Piper, and Leo. I wasn't coming off the OG hype train going into a new series, only to get blue-balled by Uncle Rick with the first book not being about Percy. I suppose the reason I'm not as critical of Lost is because I read Neptune first by accident. I read the whole OG series before the year was over, and now that I was up to speed on everything, I turned to the Lost Hero. So, that's one good thing about the movie: it made a fan out of me. I had seen the Percy Jackson books on the shelves before, but never bothered with them until the movie. I was really confused for the majority of the book, having no idea who Reyna was and why she seemed to have a history with Percy, and whenever Tyson was mentioned, I was like, "Who is Tyson?" I quickly realized that I was way out of line with the proper order of things, and thanks to Google, I quickly found my way on track. Suffice to say, the Roman demigods were not confusing Percy with a guy called Frank. Huh, well, this sounds really interesting. And there's a girl called Hazel, who is Percy/Frank's girlfriend. ![]() "Okay, so Percy has amnesia, and he's in a camp for Roman demigods, and all the Romans think his name is Frank. I picked it up and read the synopsis on the sleeve, and based on what I read, this is what I thought: I recognized it as one of the Percy Jackson books, but had no idea where it fit in the timeline, or even that it was a whole separate series. I was in Walmart one day with my mom when we stopped by the book aisle, and that's when I saw the Son of Neptune on the shelf. Having not read any of the books, ten-year-old me thought it was one of the greatest movies of all time. Ironically enough, my first exposure to Percy Jackson was the movie. I fell in love with it back in 2011 when the Son of Neptune came out. I suppose I'm nuts, feeling this strongly about a children's fantasy series, but maybe we're all nuts, then. Ever since I finished reading the whole of Trials two years ago in 2020, these thoughts have been roiling around in my head.
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