The Burning Maze Spoilers
Can we all just appreciate how awesome The Burning Maze was? The character development of Apollo alone is worth reading the novel. This book book celebrates friendship and diversity, but it’s also astonishingly deep considering it is a children’s novel. More than once the protagonist faces the eternal question of the meaning of life, or what makes it worth suffer through it? If you don’t want to cry over a kid’s novel though, this is no book for you. “The Burning Maze” might be one of Uncle Rick’s most emotional novels. Not only because of the death of Jason Grace, which made me cry way more than I would have anticipated, but because of these moments when Apollo realizes his own emotions. Thats sounds kinda strange, but I mean these moments when he realizes how deep he cares for his new friends or how wrong and emotionally distant he was before. The moments when he really realizes his own mortality and is prepared to sacrifice himself. When he truly sees himself and understands how wrong he behaved before and how hard others had to pay for his sins. But even through the sadness and heart pain, the lighthearted fun and comical absurdity Uncle Rick is so adored for is still present. Just think of the crossword oracle! I definitely recommend this book and I’m definitely going to reread it, until I can quote every haiku when the next book comes out!
Some extra random thoughts (because sleep is for the weak!):
I liked that Piper and Jason broke off. Not because my gay heart definitely wanted Piper to be happy with a badass girlfriend, but because I’m annoyed of (especially children’s) novels who pretend that you will find your soulmate at the age of 16 and be happily together until you die… Please don’t hate me!
If I were an Oracle I would prefer to be a crossword oracle, because that’s the only better Oracle than a hippy mummy Oracle!
Piper deserves happy family time far away from stupid monsters
We get to see Reyna again ❤️
Give Reyna A Girlfriend (because it’s never gay enough and I desperately need awesome badass lesbians!)
Meg is an angel and all I want for her is to overthrow her stupid abusive emperor dad and live happily ever after at her father’s place, eating enchiladas with her dryad and satyr friends
Also I want her godly mother to admit that she could have prevented sooooo much pain in Meg’s life and to start making up for it
Please don’t kill Reyna! Or Nico! Or Will! Or any of my darlings!
The chapter Haikus are awesome and successfully catch the essence of the books
I don’t see Jason’s death as some desperate cry for attention. It makes sense, it has an undeniable effect on the plot and the character development of the protagonist and it is not a bit out of character. Jason is not a second Lexa. Calm your horses, guys.
Also I feared that a third series of the Greek Gods would oversell it, but the novels just keep on rocking
I don’t know how my initial guys, this book is awesome, read it turned into mini critique, but well, here we are… Overall I am hyped and excited for the next part of the series, so I guess I’ll have to fill my wait with all the fan art I can find!