This is going to be very rambly.

It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book multiple times. I just have so many books I want to read that I find it hard to justify rereading something even if I loved it.

So I have to go back quite a while to find something like that but I do have it: the last book in the original Percy Jackson series, The Last Olympian.

It was the culmination of the five book series and it was epic. It was my first time reading an urban fantasy/mythology anything (and I was never much into HP anyways). I loved the first person narrative. I absolutely loved the romance.

I wanted to put The Lightning Thief here but it felt more appropriate to put TLO because it’s the ending. And what’s sticks with me is the PercaBeth stuff, I’ll be honest. “For once I never looked back” vs “it was the best underwater kiss of all time”. It’s been a decade since I read either book and I’m sure I’ve messed the wording up but it’s still stuck with me and hey, that says something.

I did read the Heroes of Olympus series that was the sequel but it never grabbed me the same way - primarily because it wasn’t a first person pov. And after that, I grew out of it, so never got around to the rest.

But on PLO. I loved the writing. I loved Percy’s sarcasm and his wit. I loved his way of fighting. I loved all the other characters. Obviously, I loved the romance. But I loved the adventures throughout the books and the way it all built up the final one and how it paid off there.

I don’t know what else to say. It’s a great series. Give it a read if you want.

I haven’t read it since I was a teenager. I tried reading the first one again, it was very fun and nostalgic. But it was also, clearly for kids. Not to say I didn’t enjoy my time with it and I could have continued reading, but well, I didn’t. As I said earlier, there are a lot of books I want to read and I find it hard to justify rereading something.

Curse of growing old, I guess.