"Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back." 
 This was pretty fun. I was kind of expecting it to be not so great as I've heard a lot of negative things about it but I do disagree with most of that. 
 My favourite of Rick Riordan's books are the Magnus Chase books, which are just wonderful. This wasn't quite on that level but it was fun and light and I really do love the humour, even if it isn't as good as Magnus Chase. 
 A lot of people have complained that Apollo is too egotistical and I kind of feel like that's a silly criticism because that's the point. Apollo is egotistical because he is a Greek god. Plus, most of the humour comes from how full of himself he is - it's part of the joke and it's clearly intentional. There is good character development that I assume will continue throughout the series. 
 I did, however, feel that I would have enjoyed this more if I'd read Rick Riordan's other books first - namely the Percy Jackson series and the Heroes of Olympus. I read some of the Percy Jackson books about 6 years ago but I haven't read any of the Heroes of Olympus and I feel I would have understood more of what was going on if I had some more background. Oh well, it still stood pretty well without that so who knows? 
 "That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be."