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 Review: After finishing The Lost Hero, I did not want to pick up the second book immediately because I wasn't sure if this series was worth marathoning. I did not have high expectations either, still the book was a disappointment. 
 I wanted to like this book so much because it's from Percy's perspective this time in Camp Jupiter. The Roman aspects here was really attention-catching since we got to see a different group but still in the same world, you know. But the plot was just... terrible. I wasn't getting excited anymore because everything was just the same. 
 Which was basically taking the root and structure of Percy Jackson books, like I said in my review of The Lost Hero. Okay, let me lay it down for you. 
 Arrival at Camp --> A prophecy/a task from a god --> Hasty departure of three characters because of the number of days they have --> Three of them are 'special' --> Heading out but there's distraction/need to ask someone for a certain place --> Heading for the task --> Oh there are two task but let's do the smaller task first --> Second task --> Something like important ending so the readers could feel excited. 
 Over it. 
 And what's with the gods anyway? It looked like they were doing nothing to help these young demi gods. I can imagine them being up there like 'take a shot when demi gods go on their task'. Like???? 
 I felt no connection to the writing whatsoever. I ended up reading very little of the narration and read only the dialogue to know what happened; this was only when I got to half of the book, by the way. 
 The characters felt flat and no connection between me and them as well. They were so special and different that other demi gods could not compete. I didn't find it amazing, just boring. I rolled my eyes a lot during their monologues as well. 
 Overall: meh. Wouldn't recommend, tbh.