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 3.5/5 
 Review: The first Rick Riordan book that I read two years ago was The Lightning Thief and I liked it. I didn't go crazy over it because there was no other middle grade books that defeat my love for Harry Potter. What I most enjoy in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians was the plot although I had no connection or feeling in particular for the characters, I still gave it 4 stars. I really really enjoyed the adventure I had with Percy Jackson. Yet. I couldn't remember the title of each book like which was which?? I only remembered like two Greek gods from there?? 
 ANYWAY. Off topic. 
 Back to The Lost Hero. I would say that I enjoyed this book, but it's obviously not the best. I even liked it less than the Percy Jackson books and I cannot state a proper reason why beside the similarity of this book to Percy Jackson. You can tell that I don't like reading anything that are too alike. 
 I am not sure if I can identify the difference in the writing to the Percy Jackson series, hence I read Percy Jackson two years ago, but I sure could feel that it's a lot in here. I feel that it was entertaining yet not addictive. I noticed that once I stopped reading the book, I had no intention of picking it up again except only one reason: I NEED TO FINISH IT. 
 For a major reason why this book wasn't special for me is the book felt like it was taking a root and structure of Percy Jackson straight in. There was nothing that excite me and it felt too predictable. Besides that, it was going a bit slow, too. BOooooring. Despite this book being about Jason, Leo, and Piper, I felt that it was still taking Percy as a main characters and the other three as side characters at the end. Everything still revolves a lot around Percy when I expected it to be about Jason. Which... why??? 
 Also, was I the only person who was unable to identify which mission they were doing first? Like, it was a mess. Supposedly they were following the prophecy, then all of the sudden, they had to defeat this asshole monster. I was so confused. Damn. 
 To be honest, I couldn't like any character in this book, beside Leo, because there was nothing to like about them. I was once again surrounded by these kids who had very rare ability and they were in the centre of everything. My feeling for Leo wasn't strong, but I liked him because of his sense of humor and... his bronze dragon? Jason, meh. Piper, meh. 
 Overall:ok, I enjoyed this book but I wasn't addicted. I really liked the implementation of Roman aspects here. Besides that, this book is meh.