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 2.5/5 
 Review: I'm not sure if this review is any different from the previous reviews on these books because I had the same experiences reading them. The Mark of Athena is a slight better than The Son of Neptune, but I'm still not sure if it was decent. 
 I didn't really enjoyed the writing because it was boring. It was totally excruciating to get through these characters' monologue without rolling my eyes. I seriously enjoyed the writing in Percy Jackson better, also, because it was written from only one point of view and it went really smoothly. But this book was written in multiple characters' point of view and it was difficult to identify their voices--they were just all the same. I was literally so confused between the personalities of these characters, I was already having hard time reading three characters' point of views in The Lost Hero and The Son of Neptune, now this book just added everything in, which honestly felt like a pressure. These perspectives could work if done right, but it didn't for me. 
 Look, I enjoyed the plot in here a lot more than the previous two. I thought it was executed better for the first half, not too much for the second. It still gave the feeling of Greek mythology, but it wasn't as repetitive as I expected to be. The first half of the book was amazing because of all these adventures were a lot more intriguing than what Riordan had written. I didn't care for the ending that much, though, because I had no feeling whatsoever for these characters. 
 Characters: flat flat flat. I understand that all of these characters wanted to do good and save the Olympus and they literally were fearless and won every task there was. They slayed all these monsters, cool. They are brave and intelligent, but they hadn't lost a battle whatsoever. They didn't feel bad about themselves, except for what, jealously towards their lovers. And Percy utterly lowered his self-esteem just because some unimportant sea dude wouldn't want to talk to him for this acceptable reason. Not only that, the romance was very cringy and these characters' monologues were devoted to their lovers?? I tremendously also disliked the gods because they didn't really give two shits about these children and they acted like they were twelve whenever they entered a scene. Do these gods have personality? No, in my opinion, they were really immature and basically just useless for Greek mythology. 
 Overall: I enjoyed half of this book, hence the rating. I disliked what were done to these characters and their monologues. I'm still continuing this series, though, just for the sake of finishing it.