Percy Jackson, now a high school senior, needs three recommendation letters from the Greek gods in order to get into New Rome University. He earned his first one by retrieving Ganymede’s chalice. Now the goddess Hecate has offered Percy another “opportunity”—all he has to do is pet sit her mastiff, Hecuba, and her polecat, Gale, over Halloween week while she is away. Piece of cake, right?
Percy, Annabeth, and Grover settle into Hecate’s seemingly endless mansion and start getting acquainted with the fussy, terrifying animals. The trio has been warned not to touch anything, but while Percy and Annabeth are out at school, Grover can’t resist drinking a strawberry-flavored potion in the laboratory. It turns him into a giant frenzied goat, and after he rampages through the house, damaging everything in sight, and passes out, Hecuba and Gale escape. Now the friends have to find Hecate’s pets and somehow restore the house, all before Hecate gets back on Saturday. It’s going to take luck, demigod wiles, and some old and new friends to hunt down the animals and set things right again.
The way my copy of Chalice of the Gods hasn’t even arrived yet I’m still desperate for the release of this. The Riordanverse truly has me by the throat.
never thought i’d see the day where we got a percy jackson halloween special, but HERE WE ARE AND HERE IT IS. this book was so heartwarming, funny and spooky. it genuinely feels like the evermore of PJO books and it gave me harry potter feels in a way. i had the BEST time ever🧡🍂🦴🏛️
I. CANT. WAIT. I hope Percy Jackson's adventures never end. I don't think Percy himself would like that, though...... but I'm SO EXCITED!!!! But it's a year away 😭😭 I need this book in my life right now!!! 😩 Chalice of the gods was f***ing incredible and I need mooooorrrreeee 😭😭😭😭 Love you Rick, you never fail to impress us and make us happy
i wanted to love this. truly, i did. but there is just so much wrong with this book.
the third chapter mentions paul and hana whispering, what happened to dave? why are we suddenly talking about paul? where did paul come from?
percy talks about leo in the present tense, though to everyone’s knowledge, including percy’s, leo is dead.
“the ocean glinted in the moonlight (…) we were in turkey.” turkey does not border any oceans! a simple google search would have shown/said as much.
when did annabeth’s usual shampoo become apple scented? we clearly read “annabeth's hair smelled like lemon soap” in battle of the labyrinth.
did anyone proofread this book? was there an editor?
i felt like the book was trying too hard to be funny. the constant mention of pee? terrible.
i know these books are written for kids, but compared to the first five books it felt even more childish. i enjoyed chalice of the gods, it was a cute book. but i just couldn’t bring myself to like this one.
moving on to the characters, the characterization was terrible. the characters felt like parodies. why was percy written in a way that makes him seem like an incompetent idiot, incapable of doing anything without annabeth’s help? percy is a smart dude and i hated reading his thoughts about himself. feeling self conscious is obviously a very normal thing, but why wasn’t it discussed? why joke about his feelings instead of acknowledging how he’s feeling and having him talk about it to his girlfriend?
back to annabeth’s help. it seemed like annabeth was reduced to the mom friend who knows everything. why? she’s seventeen! let her make mistakes! where percy was made out to be incompetent, annabeth was written to be over-competent.
i have more to say but i’ll leave it at this for now. i might come back to edit this cause i’ve just been rambling here, but i needed to get it out.