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Later on, it is shown that Nico has not visited the infirmary or spoken to Will since the battle, and Will expresses his dismay at this, saying that Nico could at least have dropped by and Will would have been glad to see a friendly face.
This surprises Nico, who hadn't realized Will might want to see him, and says that his face is usually not welcome, especially around the wounded/sick.
Will is upset by this and protests, stating that people were always trying to befriend Nico, it was simply that Nico would not allow them to.
Some time later, when Nico answers the door to his cabin and sees Jason Grace, he momentarily mistakes him for Will, feeling disappointed when he realizes his mistake.
He then feels annoyed with himself at being disappointed, and it is implied that he is interested in Will Solace.
After a conversation later on in which Will orders Nico to stay at the infirmary for three days of rest, Nico sees Percy and Annabeth and decides to clear the air between them, since they will be seeing a lot of each other in the next few years.
He confesses his old feelings for Percy, while Annabeth looks on, smiling reassuringly and even offering him a high-five for managing both to say the words and to utterly astound Percy, who was oblivious of his feelings (at the time they existed).
He says that Percy is not his type, and he was simply young, confused, lonely and scared with no one else to turn to or trust at the time. (
Percy is confused, even disappointed saying "What do you mean i'm not your type?".
After he walks towards a waving Will Solace, the boy he chooses.
In Trials of Apollo we get a glimpse of their relationship.
It is the first Homosexual couple in Rick's books with the ship name ‘Solangelo’.
Nico's sword is made of Stygian Iron, which will kill monsters, and, unlike the other metals of Celestial Bronze and Imperial Gold, is capable of harming mortals.
The metal, when being forged, is cooled in the River Styx, making it indestructible.
It is implied that only beings of the Underworld, such as Hades and his children, are able to use a Stygian iron weapon.
The sword helps him channel his power to control and summon the dead, along with draining an enemy's soul to reinforce his sword's power.
He can also use it to create fissures in the ground, trapping anyone unlucky in the underworld.
This is like what he did to king Minos.
Nico being an incredibly powerful demigod; he has many powers and is aware that “With great power... comes a great need to take a nap," as he says after putting to sleep all of the skeleton guards in the Palace of Hades during his and Percy's escape from imprisonment during the Last Olympian.
Nico has ADHD like other half-bloods, which allows him a heightened sense of awareness in combat.
As with most other half-bloods, Nico is dyslexic because his brain has been "hard-wired" for Ancient Greek.
However, not all are dyslexic or have ADHD, such as Frank Zhang.
Nico, being a son of Hades, is one of the most powerful demigods alive.
He can slay monsters with little effort.
Nico can open up grounds and bury creatures alive.
Nico has dominion over the dead, giving him the title ‘Ghost King’.
Nico can summon and communicate with the dead.
He can sense when a mortal or half-blood has died through a buzzing in his ears
Nico is shown to be able to release a soul into the underworld, as he did with Daedalus.
Nico can shadow-travel, a form of travel that uses shadows that enables him to teleport to different places although this ability tires him after a long period of time and he can begin to ‘fade’.
Nico can bend shadows around him to conceal himself.
He can control dark energy like Hades but to a much weaker extent.
He can shadow travel others by force if he has direct skin-to-skin contact with them.
He can cause immensely powerful tremors.
He can control the dark obsidian souls of the underworld.
He can force ghosts into silence by putting a finger to his lips.
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Thalia Grace is a fictional supporting character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, as well as a minor character in the Heroes of Olympus, as Jason's sister.
She is the demigod daughter of Zeus and Beryl Grace, a famous mortal actress.
Thalia has angel-blue eyes ( thought done say she has stormy green), black long hair, and a spray of freckles and a brilliant singing voice.
Thalia Grace is the daughter of Zeus, one of the "Big Three" Greek Gods, the other two being Poseidon and Hades.
Grover Underwood was meant to watch over her when she ran away from home at ten years old, reaching Camp Half-Blood two years later.
On her journey, she met Annabeth Chase and Luke Castellan.
They had brief encounters with the Hunters of Artemis, and were almost convinced to join, but got angry with Zoe Nightshade and did not join.
When she was twelve, they were all attacked by a herd of monsters and caught by a Cyclops in New York.
She was captured, but thanks to Annabeth, freed.
They ran, but the monsters they had briefly escaped from caught up to them.
As they reached Half-Blood Hill, Thalia sent Luke, Grover, and Annabeth over the boundary line while she faced the monsters.
She sacrificed her life for her friends, but her father Zeus took pity on her and turned her into a pine tree to preserve her, keeping the rest of the camp safe.
Thalia is a very skilled fighter and as she stated in The Titan's Curse; she can always beat Luke in a battle (which Percy has only done once).
It is also mentioned throughout the series that she has a punk sort of style, hates Barbie dolls, and likes Green Day.
She is always listening to rock bands and is into the punk subculture.
Annabeth compares her to Percy, telling him, "You guys are so alike it's scary.
Either you would have been best friends, or you would have strangled each other."
Thalia wants to be strong as many people believe, but sometimes is very sensitive.
She loves Chiron as a father and believes that her father does not care about her.
She deeply respects Poseidon but does not know why.
Her favorite god is Pan.
She is also known to like cheeseburgers, mentioned twice in the series.
She also appears reluctant to use her mother's surname.
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It is mentioned that Thalia was turned into a pine tree when she risked her life saving her friends atop of Half-Blood Hill, which guarded the boundary line for Camp Half-Blood.
She also appeared in Percy's dream.
This is one of the first movies that came from the series, in fact it is the first movie.
However, she was mentioned a few times, no one in the beginning really knew why.
Thalia appears in Percy's dreams throughout the book.
At the end of The Sea of Monsters, she is brought back to life by the Golden Fleece which Clarisse places on her pine tree.
Zeus gives her a spear which shoots electricity and turns into a small mace canister that fits in her pocket, and Athena gives her a bracelet that turns into Aegis, a shield with the Medusa's head carved into it.
It is a replica of her father’s.
Thalia is now potentially the child of the prophecy, and Kronos soon takes advantage of the fact.
in the sea of monsters Percy uses the sea as a compass to navigate to find the golden sheet which will bring back Thalia as her tree was dying in front of the camp
Thalia and Percy quarrel occasionally at camp because their similar personalities tend to clash.
Thalia is called "Pinecone Face" by Percy; in retaliation, she calls him "Seaweed Brain", which Percy does not like because it's Annabeth's pet name for him.
Thalia goes on the quest to find Artemis, hunt down the dangerous Ophiotaurus Artemis was seeking, and rescue Annabeth, along with Percy, Zoë Nightshade, Bianca di Angelo, and Grover.
Thalia, Percy, Zoe, Bianca, and Grover come upon the Junkyard of the Gods and told not to take anything from the junkyard, and just as the group is about to leave, a metal giant rises because Bianca took a figurine of her father, Hades, for Nico.
Bianca goes inside of the metal giant and tries to control it, causing the giant to fall over and Bianca to die.
Together, they face the Titan General, Atlas's army, and make it to Mount Tamalpais.
Already weakened by dragon poison, while facing her father, Atlas, Zoe dies from a final blow from Atlas.
There, Thalia fights her old friend Luke, and it seems that she has strong feelings for him, and they discover that Kronos used Thalia to twist destiny into her hands, since she would be turning sixteen on the day following the Winter Solstice.
She escaped this deadly path and turned to her half-sister, Artemis, who made her a Hunter, which would stop her from being sixteen, because whoever becomes a Hunter becomes immortal, unless they shall die in battle, or break the oath by falling in love.
Thalia and the Hunters of Artemis show up when Percy is looking for someone to defend the Lincoln Tunnel against the Titans.
Thalia helps Percy and the other demigods defend Manhattan.
At the end of the story, Thalia is still alive, and is granted help in getting more Hunters, because a lot of the Hunters died.
The Lost Hero
Thalia shows up at the cave by Aeolus' palace, along with the other hunters.
She also fights at the wolf house when the hunters help Leo, Jason, and Piper fight the monsters and the giant.
There are two parts in which she is either mentioned or appeared.
First, in Percy's dream which was a flashback of him in The Titan's Curse, Thalia, Percy and Zoë Nightshade battling on Mt. Tam going against Atlas, Luke, and trying to save Annabeth and Artemis.
Percy later sees Zoë dying and rise to the stars.
Second, though Thalia was never mentioned, when Hylla, the Queen of the Amazons, talks to Hazel Levesque she mentions a group of archers that travel around who follow the goddess Artemis, which refers to the Hunters.
Thalia and the hunters abducted Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano in San Juan and took her to her sister Hylla Ramírez-Arellano.
She explained that the hunters and Amazons have been fighting monsters while the demigods have been fighting each other.
Orion then attacked their stronghold, killing many Hunters and Amazons though Thalia and Hylla manage to survive.
When Nico and Hedge appear, she protects them while they and Reyna shadow travel away.
She survives the battle.
The Trials of Apollo
Thalia and the hunters were close by when Apollo signaled for back up.
They arrived with Leo and Festus to aid in the rescue operation and she decided to rode on Livia with Apollo, so she could help them to escape.
After they fled, the lieutenant of Artemis offered the fallen god Moonwater to regain his strength.
Then she finally says Artemis was forbidden by Zeus from interfering with Apollo but still ordered the Hunters to help him.
They three then head back to the Waystation.
She and Apollo ride Livia in to the Waystation and she goes to stop her hunters from possibly killing Lityerses.
After they rally everyone for battle she requests more arrows from Emmie.
Halfway through the battle, she along with Lit, Calypso and Josephine stood by as Commodus had Emmie, Leo and Georgie hostage.
Apollo asks her to stand down before he goes not his Divine Form and blinds the emperor.
She takes out one of his guards and searched the surrounding area for Commodus with no results.
After that, she sits with everybody and discuss about the prophecy revealed by Meg, saying that the Hunters can't help because they just have one mission to finish.
Before she and the Hunters leave, she asks Apollo to say hello to Jason and Piper.
In return, the god asks her to say hi to Artemis for him, which she agrees to do.
Fatal flaw
It is implied that she has a weak resistance when she is offered power.
She is also afraid of heights, a quality Percy finds strange, as her father is the Lord of the Sky.
She is also extremely determined, as revealed in the short story The Sword of Hades in The Demigod Files.
She has trouble abandoning a difficult task that she has started but is not able to complete.
Natural abilities
Thalia has ADHD like other half-bloods, which allows her heightened awareness in combat.
As with all other half-bloods, Thalia is dyslexic because her brain has been "hard-wired" for Ancient Greek.
Thalia becomes one of Artemis's hunters in the end of The Titan's Curse, and as a result, is immortal unless she dies in battle or breaks her oath to Artemis, which is to foreswear romantic love forever.
Thalia can 'manipulate the Mist", which means she can make things as she wants them to appear to the eyes of a mortal (taught to her by Chiron).
Thalia is a good fighter, able to beat Luke.
Zeus-relative powers
Thalia, as the daughter of Zeus, is more powerful than most demigods and on a par in strength with Percy and Nico because they are also children of the Big Three.
Thalia can send powerful amounts of static shock throughout another's body on contact.
Things that belong to her father's domain can do as she asks, such as statues of the angels in The Titan's Curse, which were gifts to her father.
They, on her request, flew her and her friends to San Francisco.
Thalia has a strong leadership quality which is probably a result of being the daughter of Zeus.
Thalia can also manipulate electricity and lightning because Zeus, the god of lightning, is her father.
Thalia has some control over air and the sky, being daughter of Zeus, Lord of the Sky.
Since she has acrophobia, or fear of heights, she has yet to test them.
A copy of Aegis that expands from a metal bracelet that she wears on her wrist, which many of the campers and monsters cower in front of
A collapsible spear that expands from a Mace canister
A Hunter's bow
Two hunting knives
Thalia for several characters from Greek mythology with the same name, although different stories.
The Titan's Curse is fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology.
It was written by Rick Riordan and was published in 2007.
The Titan's Curse is the third novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series.
It is the next book after The Sea of Monsters.
The book tells the story of the adventures of the fourteen-year-old demigod Percy Jackson as he and his friends go on a dangerous adventure.
In this quest, they have to rescue his friend Annabeth and the Greek goddess Artemis, who have both been kidnapped.
The Titan's Curse received good reviews.
It was nominated for many awards.
The book was also the number one The New York Times children's series best seller and Book Sense Top Ten Summer Pick for 2007.
It was released in the United States and the United Kingdom on May 1, 2007.
The novel was also released in audiobook format.
Actor Jesse Bernstein read the audiobook.
It is followed by The Battle of the Labyrinth, which is the fourth book in the series.
Like the other books in the series, The Titan's Curse is of the fantasy genre.
It uses the ancient Greek mythology in a modern setting as background.
Reviewers have called its plot "fast-paced", meaning that the story moves very quickly.
It has humor as well as themes such as love and loyalty.
Annabeth Chase and Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, are kidnapped and Percy and his friends must find Artemis before the winter solstice.
This is because at the winter solstice, her influence on the Olympian Council could change an important vote.
The vote was on the war with the Titans.
Thalia Grace, Zoë Nightshade, Bianca Di Angelo, and Grover go on this dangerous quest.
They also are searching for a rare monster that Artemis was trying to hunt down when she went missing.
This monster is so powerful that it can destroy Olympus.
Percy is called by a hippocampus (which is a mythological sea-horse) to rescue a cow-like creature called the Ophiotaurus which lives in the sea.
Percy names the Ophiotaurus "Bessie".
He did not know that it is a male.
With help from Apollo, they reach a small town in New Mexico.
Grover feels the presence of Pan, the Greek god of nature.
Soon, a wild gift from Pan, the giant Erymanthian Boar, comes to carry them to San Francisco.
It takes them to the junkyard of the gods.
Here, Percy meets Ares and talks to Aphrodite.
Aphrodite hints that Annabeth and Percy will fall in love in future.
The group then enters the junkyard.
There, Bianca tries to steal an action figure for her younger brother.
However, she awakens a prototype of Talos, a giant man of bronze.
She destroys it, but dies after this.
The demigods then go to Hoover Dam.
Percy is attacked by skeleton warriors there.
He meets Rachel Elizabeth Dare, a girl who can see through the Mist (which prevents common people from seeing monsters and magical things).
She saves Percy by confusing the skeletons.
This allows Percy and his friends to escape.
In San Francisco, they learn that Bessie the Ophiotaurus is the monster Artemis was searching.
This is because sacrificing it and burning its entrails will give a person the power to destroy Olympus.
They ask for the help of Annabeth's father who gives them a car.
They travel to the Garden of Hesperides, where Zoë meets her sisters.
She is poisoned by a dragon called Ladon.
They continue to the Mountain of Despair on California's Mount Tamalpais, where Mt. Othrys, the Titan capital, is now present.
From the top of the mountain where Atlas held up the sky, they see Artemis holding the sky.
Annabeth is held captive by Luke.
Percy takes the burden—the Titan's curse—from Artemis.
After this, a fight breaks out.
Atlas (the General of the Titans) kills his daughter Zoë by throwing her against rocks.
Artemis tricks Atlas into taking his burden from Percy.
Luke falls from a cliff during a battle with Thalia, and Percy thinks that he is dead.
They go to Olympus and they keep Ophiotaurus there and at that party Percy is told by Annabeth that Luke has survived.
Percy Jackson: Percy Jackson is a fourteen-year-old demigod and the son of Poseidon.
He is the main character who tells the story in the series.
Percy goes on a journey to save his friend Annabeth and the Greek goddess Artemis, who have both been kidnapped.
Thalia Grace: Thalia is a fifteen-year-old demigod.
She is a daughter of Zeus.
Thalia appears in Percy's dream in the second book.
But she makes a full appearance at the end of The Sea of Monsters.
Thalia is given a greater role in the third book.
Thalia is described as looking very punk.
She wears black clothes, has spiky hair and wears eyeliner.
Her personality is described in the book as "independent and many times sarcastic".
Thalia is a lot like Percy.
So, they get into fights often.
She has feelings for Luke and was very sad when he betrayed the gods.
Thalia is also afraid of heights.
Annabeth Chase: Annabeth is a fourteen-year-old demigod.
She is the daughter of Athena.
Annabeth is friends with Percy, Thalia and Grover.
She is kidnapped along with Artemis by the Titans.
Annabeth is very interested in architecture and she wishes to be an architect when she is older.
Grover Underwood: Grover is a satyr.
He is 28 years old but looks like a teenager.
This is due to the satyrs' slower growth rate (half that of humans).
Grover wants to look for Pan, the satyr god of nature and the wild, who fell into a "deep sleep" due to the pollution of the world.
Bianca di Angelo: Bianca is a twelve-year-old demigod.
She is the daughter of Hades.
Bianca and her ten-year-old brother Nico were trapped in the Lotus Hotel, where time is slowed down.
When the book begins, they have been released and are attending a school.
Bianca later joined the Hunters of Artemis.
She was killed in the quest in the "Junkyard of the Gods".
Her death greatly upsets her brother, Nico.
He quickly blames Percy for it.
Zoë Nightshade: Zoë is the daughter of Atlas and a hunter of Artemis.
She dies after being bitten by Ladon.
Ladon protects the golden apple tree.
The fruits of the tree make a person immortal.
Artemis turns her spirit into a constellation soon after her death.
Luke Castellan: The demigod son of Hermes, Luke is the main antagonist of the series.
The lord of the Titans, Kronos takes over his body at the end of the book.
Kronos' followers and army gather on a ship called the Princess Andromeda
Nico di Angelo: Nico is the ten-year-old demigod son of Hades.
He and his sister, Bianca di Angelo, were trapped in the Lotus Hotel, where time is slowed down.
They are rescued from a Manticore by Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, and Grover.
He is left at camp during the quest, but stays in the Hermes Cabin because his parentage has not been discovered.
He leaves camp after hearing Percy broke his promise of letting Bianca die.
Before he leaves, he sends an army of skeletal warriors into the underworld.
This shows that he is the son of Hades.
The Titan's Curse received positive reviews from critics.
The reviewers praised the humor and action in the story.
Children's Literature called the book fast-paced.
They said it "is full of adventure and humour" and that "[r]eaders will relate to good natured Percy, the protagonist."
Kirkus said that the book made Greek myths come alive in a way classrooms cannot.
They said the book will have "readers wondering how literature can be this fun."
School Library Journal wrote that "Intricate prophecies and relationships" are "neatly" woven into the plot which they said had a lot of adventure.
They added: "Teachers will cheer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians" as they would help students to learn about Greek mythology and also to read.
They said that the book was a "winner" in "Olympic" (large) proportions.
Booklist's starred review said, "The Percy Jackson & the Olympians series is built around a terrific idea" and said Riordan added more depth to the characters, but the books are still as funny as the previous ones.
KidsReads also praised the book and said that the books are popular because they combine "humor, adventure and a winning hero" and said readers who have read the previous books would like Riordan's style.
The Titan's Curse received some awards and nominations.
It was a Quill Award nominee.
It was also the number one The New York Times children's series best seller and Book Sense Top Ten Summer Pick for 2007.
An eight-hour and forty-eight minute audiobook read by the actor Jesse Bernstein was released on April 24, 2007.
It was published by Listening Library.
AudioFile Magazine praised the audiobook.
They wrote that it sounded "young, or old, or really scary" in different parts.
They added that Jesse Bernstein "[...] effectively voices the confusion and loss the team experiences."
The Battle of the Labyrinth is the fourth book in the series.
Annabeth and Percy find entrance into the Labyrinth during a game of capture the flag.
Percy soon learns that Luke had used the entrance.
He will lead the Titan army through the Labyrinth straight into the camp.
To get into the Labyrinth, Percy has to find the Delta Symbol (Δ) and touch it.
Using the Labyrinth, Percy tries to find Daedalus so Luke cannot get Ariadne's string.
This would prevent Luke from attacking the camp.
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The Battle of the Labyrinth is a 2008 fantasy-adventure novel based on Greek mythology and the fourth book in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series by Rick Riordan.
Demigod Percy Jackson, who is almost fifteen years old, tries to stop Luke and his army from invading Camp Half-Blood by navigating Daedalus's labyrinth.
It was released on May 6, 2008 in the US and Canada.
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After being attacked by Empousai cheerleaders at his new school,  Percy returns to Camp Half-Blood and learns about "The Labyrinth", part of the palace of King Minos in Crete that, according to Greek mythology, was designed by Daedalus.
During a battle game at the camp, Annabeth and Percy find an entrance into the Labyrinth.
Percy soon learns that Luke had used the entrance and will lead his army through the Labyrinth straight in to the heart of Camp Half-Blood.
To get into the Labyrinth, Percy has to find the Delta Symbol (Δ) on a passageway, touch it, and then enter the Labyrinth.
Using the Labyrinth, Percy has to try to find Daedalus so Luke cannot get Ariadne's string, thereby foiling Luke's invasion.
Ariadne's string is used to find all the exits of the Labyrinth.
Grover comes to the rescue and causes a Panic to scare away the enemy.
After the battle, Daedalus sacrifices himself to close the labyrinth, which is tied to his life.
Demigods:
Percy Jackson: 15 years old, son of Poseidon, God of the Sea.
He is the series' narrator and protagonist.
Annabeth Chase: 15 years old, Percy's friend, and daughter of Athena.
Assists Percy when he  as he navigates the labyrinth.
By the end of the book they are very close friends.
Rachel Elizabeth Dare: A mortal who can clearly see through the Mist.
Her father is a rich businessman who buys the undeveloped land of the wild and builds developments upon them.
She hates her father for doing so and was embarrassed to meet Pan, God of the Wild.
Percy had previously met her lover at the lusit  at the Hoover Dam in The Titan's Curse, where she helped him get away from the undead warriors.
Nico di Angelo: Son of Hades.
Upset that his sister Bianca died, he is slightly psychotic, and attempts to trade Daedalus' soul for that of Bianca.
He has a sword made of Stygian Iron.
Luke Castellan: Son of Hermes and traitor to the Olympians.
His body becomes possessed by the spirit of Kronos.
He is the series' main antagonist.
Grover Underwood: A satyr and Percy's best friend.
His life's ambition is to find Pan, the lost God of the Wild.
Grover, Tyson, Percy, Annabeth, Nico and Rachel find Pan inside a crystal cavern along with some extinct animals.
He gave them words of wisdom, and then died.
When he died, his essence entered all of the characters' mouths, meaning a piece of the wild remained in their hearts.
He gave Grover the famous battle cry, panic, which Grover used to scare off the intruders in Camp Half-Blood.
The god Pan is named after panic because in the Titan war he let out a horrible cry that drove all the monsters back to where they came from.
Tyson the Cyclops: Percy's cyclops half-brother.
He now works for his father in the Palace of Poseidon under the oceans in the Cyclopes' Forge.
Tyson enjoys forging, nicknaming mythical creatures they come across and eating peanut butter sandwiches.
He joins Percy and his friends in the labyrinth.
Immortals:
Daedalus/Quintus: The inventor of the Labyrinth and son of Athena, who makes five automatons to cheat death.
He becomes the new swordsman at Camp Half-Blood under the name Quintus.
He has a murderer's mark on his neck branded by Athena because he killed his nephew, Perdix.
He owns a Hellhound named Mrs. O'Leary.
After his death, he builds toll-ways and other buildings to control traffic in the Underworld and according to Nico, Daedalus is very happy with this job.
Before he dies, he gives Annabeth a laptop containing all of the works he never had time to accomplish as well as many of his ideas and theories.
Calypso: Because she helped her father Atlas, she is punished by a "house arrest" in an island named Ogygia.
The Fates send her a hero that she falls in love with every thousand years or so.
After Percy creates an explosion in Mount Saint Helen's, she nurses him back to health.
She offers to let him stay forever in Ogygia (he would gain immortality) but he refuses.
Greek Gods : They send help and obstacles to Percy during his quest, and Percy's Father Poseidon sends him mental messages helping him achieve his quest.
The Battle of the Labyrinth received generally positive reviews.
Publishers Weekly praised Riordan saying, "One of Riordan's strengths is the wry interplay between the real and the surreal."
and adding that "The wit, rousing swordplay and breakneck pace will once again keep kids hooked."
Children's Literature said, "Riordan creates a masterful weaving of Greek mythology and traditional fantasy in this latest book in "The Olympians" series.
Fans will enjoy the latest adventures of their favorite characters, and those picking the book up for the first time will have no trouble falling into this magical world."
However School Library Journal wrote "Like many series, the "Percy Jackson" books are beginning to show the strain of familiarity and repetition."
before adding: "However, the overarching story line remains compelling, and the cliff-hanger ending will leave readers breathless in anticipation of the fifth and final volume."
Kirkus adjudged the book to be the best in the series and said, "The often-philosophical tale zips along with snappy dialogue, humor and thrilling action, culminating in a climactic battle between gods and Titans.
Kirkus Reviews gave The Battle of the Labyrinth a starred review as well as Publishers Weekly.
The Battle of the Labyrinth was adapted to a 10 hours and 32 minutes audiobook read by actor Jesse Bernstein and published by Listening Library.
The release date for the audiobook was May 13, 2008.
AudioFile Magazine was generally positive about the audiobook.
They commended Bernstein, saying that he was "just as skillful at wringing humor from the witty dialogue and from the contrasts between the modern and ancient worlds."
In The Last Olympian there is a final battle for Olympus, with Percy and his friends defending it against Kronos and his forces.
Percy rallies the demigods and many of his allies take part in the war, including The Hunters of Artemis and the Party Ponies.
Rachel becomes the new Oracle and spouts another Great Prophecy.
Percy and Annabeth start going out.
The Last Olympian was released May 5, 2009.
It is the last book of the series.
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The Demigod Files is a collection of stories by Rick Riordan published on February 10, 2009.
It is a companion book to the main series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
It contains three short stories, titled Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot, Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon, and Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades.
It also contains a preview of The Last Olympian.
Additional contents include interviews with some of the campers, a picture of Annabeth's trunk, a map of Camp Half-Blood, and various crossword puzzles and other activities.
It is set between the fourth book, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and the fifth book, The Last Olympian.
Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot
Clarisse La Rue is given the chore of taking care of Ares's war chariot.
It is stolen by her immortal brothers as a prank, Deimos and Phobos (gods of terror and fear respectively).
Percy and Clarisse find it at a zoo.
They face the two gods, whom without their powers of fear and terror are extremely weak in battle, (unlike the nature of Ares), and are easily defeated.
They bring the chariot to Ares' Temple on the Intrepid, a battle cruiser.
Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon
Percy Jackson and Charles Beckendorf are on the same team for capture the flag.
Beckendorf, a son of Hephaestus, has a somewhat awkward conversation about girls, and thinks Percy should ask Annabeth to the Fourth of July fireworks, the biggest dating event of the summer at Camp Half-Blood, that night.
They set off into the woods and stumble on a huge anthill.
Silena Beauregard and Annabeth capture Percy.
Meanwhile, Charles Beckendorf charges straight ahead into the ant swarm as he tries to take back a huge bronze dragon's head, but immediately is pinched in the leg and has acid spit on his face.
Percy, Annabeth and Silena try to find the rest of the body of the bronze dragon which was once one of the camp's defenses against monsters before Thalia's Pine Tree took its place so it can rescue Beckendorf from the ants.
They finally get the monster started (a bronze dragon with no wings) and get it to help Beckendorf.
It blasts open the ants' nest and all the ants attack the dragon.
Meanwhile, Percy, Annabeth and Silena dart into the ant hill and get Beckendorf back out.
When they come out and flee, the dragon spots them and goes berserk.
Percy distracts the dragon so Beckendorf can jump on the dragon's back and unplug him.
Silena is so relieved that Beckendorf is alive that when he asks her to the fireworks, she gladly accepts the invitation.
Once they get back to camp, it turns out the capture the flag game has not ended yet, and Annabeth puts them in jail.
Percy and Charles protest to no avail.
Before Annabeth leaves to go back to the front line to fight for her team, she asks Percy out to the Fourth of July Fireworks, but she quickly leaves before Percy can answer.
Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades
Rick Riordan wrote this short story for World Book Day 2009.
It takes place between The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Last Olympian.
Persephone calls Percy, Thalia and Nico, all the children of the Big Three, into the Underworld to retrieve Hades's new sword from a demigod spy who stole it.
The problem is that Hades' keys, which let anyone out of or into the Underworld, are in it.
Persephone gives them a flower to track the half-blood.
When all of the petals fall off, the sword thief has made it out of the Underworld.
Percy, Nico and Thalia must retrieve the sword before time runs out.
They catch the thief, Ethan Nakamura, but all the petals fall off because Ethan has raised the Titan Iapetus.
Percy flings Iapetus into the river Lethe, a river that makes one forget their identity, during a fight.
Although Percy also falls in, he stays dry because of his powers, being the son of Poseidon.
Percy tells Iapetus that he is Bob and Iapetus believes him and is now harmless.
When they return to Hades and Persephone with the sword, Hades is very unhappy about the sword and leaves in anger, threatening Persephone never to disobey him again.
They later find out that Persephone requested the sword against Hades's orders.
Publishers Weekly criticized, "Bland illustrations depicting the contents of Annabeth's trunk, a map of Camp Half-Blood and a short "sneak peek" at The Last Olympian pad the contents (barely) to book length; the inclusion of a crossword puzzle and a word search makes the book difficult to share.
Not a must-read-but try telling that to rabid fans."
School Library Journal reviewer Tim Wadham commended the writing, saying, "Despite the fact that this is more of a marketing package than anything else, the quality of and interest in the three stories likely justifies its purchase."
2009 books
This is a list of characters in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series of fantasy novels by the author Rick Riordan.
Percy Jackson: The protagonist and narrator of the series and the son of Poseidon.
Being a child from one of "Big Three" (Zeus, Poseidon, Hades), Percy is possibly the child referred to within the prophecy, which foretells that the next half-blood child of the "Big Three" to reach the age of sixteen would make a decision that would either save or destroy Olympus.
He was technically only selected to go on two of the five quests in the series, the first being the retrieval of Zeus' master thunderbolt.
He is the leader of this quest.
In The Battle of the Labyrinth, Percy has to go through the Labyrinth (a big subterranean maze) created by Daedalus, in order to defend the camp against Luke (a son of Hermes and servant of the Titan lord Kronos).
The quest in The Sea of Monsters was actually led by Clarisse (a daughter of Ares), but Percy sneaks out of camp because he needs to find Grover, his best friend/protector.
In The Titan's Curse, he is also not selected to go on the quest, but he follows the group because he needed to help Annabeth, who is in love with Percy.
Percy has a crush on Annabeth, but his love life has been difficult as a result of Aphrodite's promise she made to him when she met him in the desert.
After he helps Zoë, Bianca, Grover, and Thalia, Zoë reluctantly allows him to become the fifth member of their team .
He leads the army against Kronos in The Last Olympian.
Annabeth Chase: A daughter of Athena (goddess of wisdom and battle strategies).
She is shown to be somewhat pompous at first, but quickly warms to Percy on their first quest together.
Being a daughter of Athena, she is very intelligent and has a fascination with architecture.
She ran away from home when she was seven and met Luke and Thalia, who took her with them to get to Camp Half-Blood.
She aids Percy in four of his five quests and is captured in one of them.
At first she likes Percy and Luke.
But later she gets over Luke and ends up with Percy.
He likes her back and gets jealous when she talks about Luke.
They become a couple in The Last Olympian.
Grover Underwood: He is a satyr and Percy Jackson's best friend.
He has found the four most powerful demigods of the century (children of the Big Three): Percy Jackson (son of Poseidon), Thalia Grace (daughter of Zeus), and Nico and Bianca di Angelo (children of Hades).
Before his death, Pan (the god of the wild) proclaims Grover as the bravest satyr and names Grover as his successor to carry on his word to protect the wilderness.
The Council of Cloven Elders is angered by this choice.
He is the boyfriend of tree nymph Juniper.
Aphrodite: The goddess of love and beauty couragestness.
She is mentioned in The Lightning Thief and appears briefly in The Titan's Curse.
Her children (mostly girls) live in Cabin #10.
She wears a red satin dress and has long hair in ringlets.
Her appearance changes as Percy looks at her, matching every female he has ever had a crush on (one being Annabeth).
She encourages Percy to pursue a quest for true love.
She is shown to have interest in Percy's feelings towards Annabeth and promises to make Percy's love life hard.
She appears again at the Council of the Gods and votes to let Percy live.
Aphrodite is the mother of Silena Beauregard.
Apollo: The god of the sun and archery.
The campers in Cabin #7 are his children.
He drives a flying red convertible, a Maserati Spyder, that glows brightly like the sun.
He appears to be about 18 years old and has sandy colored hair and dazzling white teeth.
Apollo wears Ray-Ban sunglasses and sports an iPod.
He also loves to recite poetry, especially haikus; Percy describes them as so bad that he would rather be shot by an arrow than listen to one, but Zoe says his limerick days were much worse.
Apollo helps Percy Jackson in The Titan's Curse by disguising himself as a homeless man.
Apollo is also the god of prophecy and controls the Oracle.
In The Last Olympian, he heals Annabeth's broken arm after she was thrown into her mother's throne.
Ares: The god of war.
His children are the campers in Cabin #5.
He first encounters Percy in The Lightning Thief.
Ares drives a huge motorcycle decorated with flames and human skin.
He wears red sunglasses that cover his eyes, which are flames.
His face is covered with scars from many fights.
Once, Ares sends Percy, Grover and Annabeth to retrieve his shield, which he left behind after a date with Aphrodite.
They travel to a Tunnel of Love, which ends up being a trap set by Hephaestus.
He intercepts Zeus's master bolt from Luke in The Lightning Thief and gives Percy a backpack containing it.
He wants to cause discord among Zeus, Poseidon and Hades.
Later, he is overpowered by Percy in a duel.
He curses Percy that his sword will fail him in battle and departs.
Ares returns with minor roles in The Sea of Monsters, while talking to Clarisse and The Titan's Curse.
In the book Ares gives Percy the shield and the lightning bolt, but in the movie, Percy gets the lightning bolt from Luke, the son of Hermes.
Artemis: The goddess of the hunt and the twin sister of Apollo.
Cabin #8 at Camp Half-Blood is dedicated to her, though it is unoccupied, except for the rare visits when her group of huntresses stays at the camp, such as in Book 3.
She has a prominent role in The Titan's Curse.
Artemis appears to be about 12 years old.
She has auburn hair and silvery-yellow eyes the color of the full moon.
Artemis leads a group of teenaged girls, the Hunters.
The Hunters pledge to give up love in exchange for immortality.
The Hunters never grow up and can only die if they are killed in battle or break their oath.
Artemis leaves the Hunters to pursue a monster that has the potential to destroy Olympus.
She is abducted along with Annabeth by Atlas and is forced to hold up the sky.
She is rescued by Percy who holds the sky for her so she can fight Atlas.
Artemis and Percy trick Atlas into holding the sky again.
Artemis transforms Zoe into a constellation after she is killed in battle.
She seems to like Percy, saying that he's okay for a boy, and later refers to him as a man.
She speaks up for Percy, Annabeth and  Thalia at the Council of the Gods.
She votes for Percy to live.
Thalia joins her hunt at the end of The Titan's Curse, preventing her from fulfilling the Oracle's prophecy.
Athena: The goddess of wisdom and battle strategy.
She first appears in The Titan's Curse, where she is shown to dislike Percy and his relationship with her daughter, Annabeth.
Athena is described as being beautiful but also serious and foreboding.
She has black curly hair and intense gray eyes, almost all of her children who live in Cabin #6 have gray eyes.
Athena considers Percy to be very dangerous as he has the potential of fulfilling the Prophecy that a child of one of the Big Three will destroy Olympus.
She advises Percy that wise counsel is not always the most popular, and cautions him about his fatal flaw.
She also votes not to let Percy live.
Percy considers Athena one of the most dangerous beings he has encountered, noting that because of her calculating intelligence, her plans rarely fail.
Athena is against Percy and Annabeth's relationship.
Demeter: The goddess of the harvest.
She is first mentioned in The Sea of Monsters, when Hermes is talking to Percy about the quest.
She was also one of the goddesses who voted to keep Percy alive in The Titan's Curse.
Demeter made three brief appearances along with her daughter Persephone in The Last Olympian.
Her children live in Cabin #4.
Her fictional persona in the Percy Jackson book series is obsessed with cereal.
Hades: The god of the Underworld.
He is the husband of Persephone and is Nico and Bianca di Angelo's father.
Percy first encounters him in The Lightning Thief on his quest to find and return Zeus's master bolt.
In The Last Olympian, Hades traps Percy when Nico leads him to the Underworld palace.
He plans to put him in the dungeon until Nico turns sixteen, so Nico can fulfill the prophecy.
He appears again with Persephone and Demeter to save Olympus.
Hephaestus: The god of forging.
He appears as a minor character in The Titan's Curse and as a major one in The Battle of the Labyrinth where he helps Percy numerous times.
His children live in Cabin #9.
He is the father of Charles Beckendorf.
He was thrown off of Mt. Olympus when he was born because Hera thought he was hideous and wanted a "perfect" family, though Hera denies it.
Hephaestus says that Hera likes telling the story that Zeus threw him off the cliff because "It makes her seem more likable."
Hera: The goddess of marriage.
She plays a small role in The Titan's Curse but is one of the gods who help Percy and the others in their quest in The Battle of the Labyrinth.
At the end of the book, Annabeth and Percy offend her because she did not care that Luke was gone or that Daedalus and Pan were both dead.
She thought they were better off gone.
Cabin #2 at Camp Half-Blood is dedicated to her, but is perpetually empty; as the goddess of marriage, she has not given birth to any demigods.
Hermes: The god of travelers, communication, and thieves.
He has nearly no role in the first book but is a significant character in the second book where he helps Percy by giving him a flask full of air, backpacks, and his special multi-vitamins, hoping that he will be able to rescue his son, Luke, who had joined the Titans.
He is also mentioned briefly in The Titan's Curse.
He gets bitter about Luke and gets angry at Annabeth in The Last Olympian for not saving his favorite son, Luke, when she had the choice.
All of his children and the undetermined half-bloods stay in Cabin #11.
Poseidon: The god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses.
He is Percy's father and his children live in Cabin #3.
In the first book, he is suspected of having stolen Zeus's master bolt, but Percy proves the claim false.
He appears as a minor character in the next three books.
In The Last Olympian, Percy falls unconscious in the ocean and lands at Poseidon's castle.
Poseidon is at war with Oceanus, the Titan god of the ocean, and makes Percy go back to camp instead of helping him.
He is one of the few gods that does not go and help in the effort to defeat Typhon until Percy tells him that the only way to win is to abandon the sea and fight Typhon.
Persephone: The goddess of springtime and queen of the Underworld.
She is married to Hades.
Her mother is Demeter, whom she is only allowed to visit in spring and summer.
Persephone appears in The Demigod Files and The Last Olympian.
She is notably much kinder and more beautiful in the spring and summer.
Zeus: The King of the Gods and the god of the sky.
He is a principal character in the first book but is a minor one in the next four.
He is the father of Thalia Grace; his cabin is Cabin #1.
Poseidon calls Zeus dramatic, saying that he might do better as the god of theatre.
Dionysus: The god of wine and madness.
He is the director of Camp Half-Blood, where he was sent by his father Zeus for chasing an off-limits nymph.
He is shown to hate his job, but he has to remain at Camp Half-Blood for another fifty years (his punishment used to be 100 years).
His children live in Cabin #12.
He can be seen playing with the satyrs in camp.
He appears in all the books.
In The Battle of the Labyrinth, he goes out to search for the minor gods and returns at the end of the book.
He rarely bothers to call the campers by their proper names, calling Percy Jackson names such as "Peter Johnson, "Perry Johannson", or "Pierre Jorgenson" throughout the series.
He also calls Annabeth "Annie Bell", regardless of the fact that she has been in Camp Half-Blood since she was seven years old.
Minor gods
Aeolus: Greek gods of the winds.
They never made an appearance, but they were mentioned in The Last Olympian.
They made it hard for the Titan army to hit Olympus by air.
Consequently, it also made it harder for Pegasi to fly.
Deimos: The god of terror.
He appears in Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot in The Demigod Files.
Deimos and Phobos (his brother) steal Ares's war chariot from Clarisse.
Percy and Clarisse have to get it back to Ares before sunset.
On the way, Deimos comes in front of the ferry that Percy and Clarisse are on while riding a sea serpent.
He comes back later in the zoo, terrorizing Clarisse by shape-shifting into Ares and yelling at her.
Clarisse deduces his true identity and defeats him.
East River: The minor god of the East River.
He only appears in The Last Olympian.
He dislikes Percy and the Hudson River.
Percy asks him to sink all of the Titan ships that come in his river, and splits the sand dollar his father gave him for his fifteenth birthday with East River and Hudson so they both agree to his request.
Hebe: Goddess of youth.
She was mentioned in a few of the books in lists of which minor Gods had turned over to the Titans' side.
Hecate: The minor goddess of magic.
Hecate helps Kronos in The Last Olympian by attacking Olympus and making cars stay away from Manhattan.
She is the mother of C.C. (Circe), who turns Percy into a guinea pig in The Sea of Monsters.
She is the ruler of the empousai, two of which attack Percy in The Battle of the Labyrinth.
Hestia: The goddess of hearth and home.
She first appears as a young girl, about 8 years old, who wears a simple brown dress and scarf.
Percy sees her when he enters Camp Half-Blood for the first time, but does not speak to her.
Percy and Nico encounter her in The Last Olympian when she gives them food.
She has glowing eyes that remind Percy of a cozy fire.
Hestia tends to the hearth in Olympus while the other gods battle Typhon.
Hestia gave up her throne for Dionysus in order to prevent a civil war among the Olympians.
She explains to Percy that one of the greatest powers is to yield in order to retain peace.
Percy offers Pandora's box to Hestia.
He tells her that she is the Last Olympian and Hope survives best at the hearth.
Hestia accepts, preventing Percy from being tempted to open it.
While it is thought that she is weak, it is shown that she is very powerful, as in The Last Olympian,when she is talking to Percy & Nico,she makes a campfire's flames shoot up about sixty feet in the air.
Also, she helps Percy when he battles Kronos by making her hearth painfully hot for Kronos when he reaches to get his scythe when it fell into the flames.
Hudson: The minor god of the Hudson River.