The reason this book review goes straight through the grinder, is because I began reading the Percy Jackson series just recently and went from book to book one after the other. After spending around 1200 pages getting to know Rick Riordan's writing style he really began to grate my nerves in the last one, and it ended up becoming a struggle to get through the last few chapters. 
 Rick becomes very repetitive in his scripting and story pace. For example important conversations are always sidestepped when they just start becoming interesting. When a vital detail is about to be given, BOOM interruption and normally I would be okay with that, as long as instantly after the crisis is avoided the conversation starts back up, but for some reason that initial conversation doesn't start back up. However, Rick decides to give the reader a giant "FU" and makes us wait 50 more pages to find out what was going to be said. This would be a similar situation, lets say I'm driving in a vehicle with a friend or family member, and we are getting into some really nitty gritty dialogue, and......WHOA HOLY CRAP, that car nearly cut us off and we both almost died!!! Well, that was close! Okay now that my nerves have settled just few seconds later I say, "oh yeah what was I saying again, oh that's right..." and then I pick up where I left off. Mr. Riordan decides to make absolutely no sense in these scripted events, forgetting that these young heroes still have a 2-8 hour journey left to their trip, but for some god forsaken reason they can't seem to remember what they were just talking about, and just as the sun surely rises each morning an event 50 pages down the road will have that little secret patiently waiting to reveal itself. Due to this great agitation and seemingly repeating writing style, I'm taking a little hiatus before reading my next Percy Jackson adventure.