#3 The Heroes of Olympus - The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
The conclusion of the Heroes of Olympus series sees our heroes splitting into groups. In one group, the 7 of the Prophecy, the demigods race to Greece, to Athens, to fight the forces of Gaea, to try to prevent her from waking. In the other group, Nico, Reyna, and the satyr, Coach Hedge, must shadow-travel halfway around the world with the Athena Parthanos, in a despite bid to get it to Camp Half-Blood to prevent the Greeks and Romans from going to war with one another - if the strain of the shadow-travel doesn't kill the son of Hades first.
Not a bad book, but the conclusion to all this build-up to the war fell a little flat for me. It was almost too easy in a way. In the first Percy Jackson series, the Battle for Manhattan took up most or all of the final book. This one was mostly just build-up with what felt like too few chapters actually dedicated to the fighting. And the killing of Gaea's forces in Athens was laughably easy. Still, I overall enjoyed the series, even if I am completely partial to the original series.
