From the World of Percy Jackson: The Court of the Dead
A Nico di Angelo Adventure
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4.4 • 50 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
New York Times #1 best-selling authors Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro collaborate again on a new adventure in which Nico di Angelo teams up with his half-sister Hazel Levesque to protect . . . monsters?Nico di Angelo is feeling antsy. It's been almost three months since he and his boyfriend, Will Solace, returned to Camp Half-Blood from their journey to Tartarus, and there hasn't been a demigod quest or a conflict with monsters in all that time. So, when Nico's half-sister, Hazel Levesque, asks him and Will to join her at Camp Jupiter on the West Coast, he shadow-jumps at the chance to get away and do something.In her Iris-message, Hazel had said that she needed the boys' help with an "issue" with some "new guests." What she didn't say was that she's providing a haven for a group of monsters who escaped the Underworld! Apparently, the self-proclaimed "mythics" learned from Nico and Will themselves that they have options and don't have to be evil. But their integration into the Roman demigod camp isn't exactly going smoothly.As Nico and Will endeavor to build bridges between the refugees and the demigod campers, the mythics start disappearing from camp, one by one. A mysterious dark force is at work, and its plan is to punish all monsters for their past crimes. Things only get worse when Hazel learns that she is closely connected to that force . . .In this brilliantly inventive and laugh-filled adventure, the best-selling team of Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro manipulate the Mist to make readers see things in a whole new light.
Customer Reviews
Only the ending is good and bisexuality is treated poorly
This entire book, up until the few chapters, was very much a drag. Some moments were cute or fun, but they were only small. Somehow, the chaos in this book doesn’t lend itself to entertainment until the very last chapters. No significant character arcs happen. Characters are introduced at the beginning but have no perceivable purpose.
The ending of this book is entertaining, but that’s it. That’s the only time where the chaos actually worked. This book feels like a very long and annoying trek up until that point.
As a last note, Will flirts with a woman in front of his boyfriend and this is treated as normal because he’s bisexual. This is in spite of Nico being uncomfortable with it. Perpetuating a stereotype about bisexual people isn’t okay. For all of these reasons, I cannot say this book is good.