The World is Saved!

Summary of the Chapters

Percy, Annabeth, and Grover went to the Olympus to prepare for the final battle against Kronos and the titans who were going there for the fight. Kronos started to destroy everything in the Olympus when Percy and his friends entered the thrones part and the fight between Percy and Kronos started. The world almost ended, but Percy and the gods could defeat the titans in their mission and save everybody from a fatal ending. Percy admits that he can´t leave Annabeth and he wants to stay with her.

Text References

"I have to fight him," I told her. "It´s my fight too, Percy."
Both, Percy and Annabeth knew that they had to fight Kronos and it was crucial to save the gods, themselves, and the world.
"I´m immortal you fool! I have escaped Tartarus. You have no business here, and no chance to live."
Kronos is right in telling this to Nico and the half-bloods, but they can still destroy him without killing him and he will be gone for another long time.

Final Thoughts & Comments

The half-bloods are really brave to fight Kronos. They knew that they were at risk of dying and Kronos was not (he will be destroyed and could appear again in a long time, but is still not dying).
The reason why the half-bloods fight was something that helped them because they knew what was at stake. Percy and the half-bloods are real heroes and they are the ones that can say that they saved the world.

Kronos Always Gives Up?

Summary of the Chapters

Percy gets out of the Underworld and meets the half-bloods at the Empire State Building with the purpose to also meet Zeus and the gods. Percy had a fight against the titan Kronos and after a moment of fight, Percy made the titan give up and get out of there. Prometheus told Percy that they have to give up in their mission of destroying the titans because they will die and the Olympus will be destroyed and if they fight or not had nothing to do with that. The half-bloods and a lot of centaurs from Chiron attacked Kronos again and he had to give up again.

Text References

"I tried to wound his men, not kill. That slowed me down, but these weren´t monsters. They were demigods who´d fallen under Kronos´s spell."
Kronos was intelligent and used a spell to get some demigods fooled and get them on their side.
"He mounted his horse, whirled around, and galloped back to Brooklyn, followed by his warriors."
After fighting Percy, the titan Kronos decided to escape to Brooklyn because Percy was strong enough to fight him.

Final Thoughts & Comments

Kronos is a titan and Percy a half-blood, but still Percy can fight him having that big disadvantage. Kronos created a spell to make some of the half.bloods change to his side and help him fight against the other half-bloods. At some times I think that Kronos is a coward because he always escapes when he is at risk of being defeated. Also, he can be viewed as someone intelligent because he knows exactly at which moment he can be destroyed and just escapes to protect himself from the danger that in this case would be Percy and the half-bloods.

Summary of the Chapters:

Percy Jackson went back to Camp Half-Blood and told everyone that they exploded the Princess Andromeda and Beckendorf died there. Percy didn´t want to give any full report, but visit the Oracle and know what has to happen in the future. Half-Bloods went to Luke´s mom house and she started hugging everybody saying that they were Luke and he has returned. The half-bloods realized that there was a problem with May Castellan and got the story of the last time that she had been with his son.

Text References:

"I don´t recommend shadow travel if you´re scared of:
a) The dark
b) Cold shivers up your spine
c) Strange noises
d) Going so fast you feel like your face is peeling off"
Percy´s recommendations told me that shadow travel is not the best way to do it and also it make me feel like Percy is going to die because he likes high-risk activities and they can kill him.
"Perrrrcy, is Kronos really going to invade?"
Percy and his teammates are afraid of Kronos invading them or their camp.

Final Thoughts and Comments:

Percy is a person who loves danger and destroying the Titans is dangerous. It seems like it is a perfect job for Percy if he likes taking some risks. Kronos will not be afraid of killing Percy if he has an opportunity to do so. Percy Jackson is someone really brave that wants to take risks to save the Half-Bloods just like he had done a lot of times in the past.

I am Rescued... Again, I go to see my Dad... Again

Summary of the Chapters

Percy jumped from the Princess Andromeda after making it explode using some bombs that he find with Beckendorf. After being for some hours in the water, Percy was rescued by his friends (Tyson and Nico di Angelo). Tyson and Nico explained to Percy that he was in the water for some hours and also that they searched for Beckendorf and didn´t find him. After that, Tyson told Percy to go with him to Poseidon´s palace. They went there and realized that Poseidon had really big power and that any common mortal would die instantly in the palace because it was underwater and also had some creatures that can kill them.

Text References

""Beckendorf was on board. Did you find . . ." Tyson´s face darkened. "No sign of him. I am sorry, brother.""
I knew that something had happened to Tyson, but I asked me a question: Exactly, what had happened to him?
"I knew in my gut he was dead. He´d sacrificed himself to take out the Princess Andromeda, and I had abandoned him.
Percy felt like what happened to Beckendorf was all his fault. Percy is convinced that Beckendorf is dead, but I still have my questions about what had happened to him; if he actually died, he survived, or he was rescued by someone just as Sally when Percy fought against the Minotaur and the beast attacked Percy´s mom.

Final Thoughts & Comments

Percy was confused when he was rescued from the water. It is normal because when someone is in the water for a long period of time, the brain gets tired and needs to take a rest by sleeping. After such an event, Percy had no time to rest because something strange happened and he wanted to go and see Poseidon with Tyson. What was that strange thing that happened? It is a sign that the Titans will attack Olympus? Who knows?

Princess Andromeda? Again?

Summary of the Chapters

Percy and Beckendorf have seen again the Princess Andromeda, but this time, it was going straight to New York. The two half-bloods went there because they wanted to stop the boat before starting any evil plan and save the day before anybody noticed it or even having a quest. They both enter the boat and a lot of monsters that wanted to kill them and they were guided by Luke and Kronos. In a backpack, were a lot of explosives that Percy and Beckendorf wanted to use to blow up the boat. They did blow up the boat and Percy jumped out of it.

Text References

"Seeing the ship again twisted my gut into knots. I´d almost died twice on the Princess Andromeda. Now it was heading straight for New York."
Looking again at the Princess Andromeda was not the best thing that could have happened to Percy because it remembers him from both times that he could´ve died there. This also told Percy that Luke and Kronos wanted to do something evil in New York.
"Three years ago, Blackjack had been enslaved on the Princess Andromeda until he´d escaped with a little help from my friends and me."
This boat not only brought bad memories to Percy, but to Blackjack who had also experienced how evil the Titans were.

Final Thoughts & Comments

Percy is again facing the Princess Andromeda which is one of the places that he would never like to see again. Anyway, Percy goes there to stop the boat from going to New York with the help of Beckendorf. He reaches his goal of preventing the boat from arriving to N.Y. by using some explosives that he had in a backpack. He used those bombs and blew up the boat, then he escaped by jumping to the water. Percy could manage to escape, but what happened to Beckendorf?

Grover Finds Pan

Summary of the Chapters

Percy went back to Camp Half-Blood and it was strange because the campers were making his funeral without him even dying. The half-bloods went to a cave were they could find Grover´s cap which told them that he was somewhere in the cave. They continued going through the cave and find a place where they could see a lot of different animals including Pan. Pan told to Grover that he was there waiting for him. After having a talk, Pan told Grover that he is not going to die because gods can´t die, but he was going to fade that is something similar to dying, but for gods. Grover reached to his achievement that he had planned for his whole life and find Pan, but now, he was going to fade.

Text References Analysis

"Grover fell to his knees in front of the bed. "Lord Pan!" The god smiled kindly, but there was sadness in his eyes. "Grover, my dear, brave satyr. I have waited a very long time for you.""
Grover is really admired and has a lot of respect for Pan. Pan answers to his respect by being nice to him.
""My lord," Grover said, "please, you must come back with me! The Elders will never believe it! They´ll be overjoyed! You can save the wild!""
Grover is asking Pan to go with him because the group of satyrs will not believe that he find Pan unless he brings the lord with him and they can see him physically.

Final Thoughts

I can tell from this book that was a really interesting one because of different reasons. One of those reasons can be that once again Luke and the titans wanted to make evil plans and cause damage to half-bloods and to the camp. I enjoyed reading this book and really it is not a big surprise since I have read the first three books before and found them all interesting. Not only for me, but for the characters, it was something good because Percy completed a new quest and Grover will be a great satyr for history because he was the only one that could find the god Pan. I like Percy Jackson books and this one was not the exception so I am willing to read the fifth one which is: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian.

Trust Geryon? Or not?

Summary of the Chapters

Percy now knows that Luke is informed about the quest that the half-bloods are having to prevent Kronos and his allies entering to Camp Half-Blood using the Labyrinth´s entrance that is inside the camp. Percy was forced by Geryon to take care of a stable if he does not want to be sold to Kronos and all of the Titans. He realized that those horses were not really as friendly such as Blackjack or the hippocampi and instead, they wanted to attack him. Percy cleaned and protected the stable, but Geryon did not wanted to let the half-blood free, so they had a fight and at the end, Percy killed Geryon.

Text References Analysis

"His face turned a sickly shade of green. He collapsed to his knees and began crumbling into sand, until all that was left were three cooking aprons and an oversized pair of cowboy boots."
Percy and Geryon fought because of the monster not wanting to complete his part of the deal. The deal consisted in: Percy cleaning and taking care of the stable and Geryon letting him free and don´t sell him to the monsters.
""How long will it take Geryon to re-form?" I asked him. Eurytion shrugged. "Hundred years? He´s not one of those fast re-formers, thank the gods.""
Luckily for everyone, Geryon takes a long time to re-form and he will not bother any more for a long time.

Final Thoughts

If you make a deal with another person, it is really important that both members do what they are supposed to. In this case, Percy completed his part, but Geryon not so that caused Percy to get angry and kill the monster. If someone doesn´t do what he should do in a deal, that will cause anger in the other person like in this scenario that Percy´s anger was so big that he decided to fight and kill Geryon. Having a person in which you can trust is probably one of the important and most valuable things in a person´s life.