Can I be a pjo nerd for a quick second? Yeah, okay.
The Sun and the Star is not the Solangelo book we should've gotten, and this is for several reasons.
1. Overhyping of characters. Forgive me as I have not read the book in a while, but I distinctly remember the book marketing Amphitemis as an important character to the book, only be be involved in a chapter or two and then we never see him again.
2. THAT IS NOT NYX. I'm sorry, but of all the depictions of the greek gods in Rick's books, this one felt the most disrespectful to me. Nyx is the primordial goddess of night, wife of darkness, mother of death, sleep, chaos, retribution, etc. It is said that even Zeus himself fears her. But Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro chose to depict her as a crazy hag who lives in a house made of bugs, is afraid of change, and is obsessed with tourism. Rick, honey, that is not a goddess feared by all. That is a homeless woman. A homeless woman who puts disrespect on other homeless people.
3. Tartarus, where? The book was marketed as Will and Nico descending into Tartarus to save Bob, but 80% of the book doesn't even take place in Tartarus.
4. Confusing. The first half of the book is written in a very confusing way where it's Will and Nico talk about their journey into the underworld, which gets very confusing really quickly.
Besides all of that, the book is just mediocre at best. It feels to me that Rick and Mark weren't able to properly plan out the story and, at certain moments, even clashed with each other about it. The book could've been great, but instead, it was meh.
Frankly, the only good thing we got out of it were the Coco Puffs, though the circumstances of their creation do make me very uncomfortable.
Either way, that was all I have to say. Thanks for coming to my rant.
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