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Every time I see two girls in a show or movie that have the same color lipstick I immediately think theyā€™re lesbians, they had to coordinate the color so that when they kiss their lipstick wouldnā€™t mix šŸ’… that is divinely written into the text, a secret language that they are more than just best friends, gals being pals šŸ‘Æā€ā™€ļø theyā€™re smooching your honor!
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Nice šŸ˜Ž I love the dedication šŸ™‡ā€ā™€ļø
Since TSATS is coming out in 12 days, if anyone wants to reread all of Nicoā€™s story so far without having to committ to rereading all 15+ books, a couple months ago I made a Nico di Angelo masterdoc with all his mentions and appearances. Every single one.
Itā€™s got all of PJO, HOO and TOA. I didnā€™t get around to the shorts stories yet so itā€™s still a work in progress, but the main series are all there.Ā 
Anyway Iā€™m dropping the google link below.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xW_qQJxgJJ-Xknp0dUQ5J0z7w37EnF3b/view?usp=sharing
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Love this!!! šŸ±šŸŖ˜šŸŖ˜šŸ¤ 
You guys just have to trust me on this one and click here okay?
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((This originally comes as my response to someone saying that ppl donā€™t like The Sun and The Star because itā€™s a middle school book and we were expecting the series to grow along with us.))
Valid point I keep finding BUT I recently read the PJO series again in preparation for TSATS and those books still slap!! Theyā€™re so good even tho Iā€™m reading them as an adult even though they're meant for kids. (Also I recently read ToA because of course Iā€™m gonna keep reading Rickā€™s middle school books until the day I die or they stop coming out lol. And that series while more goofy at points I still really liked) I also read one of Mark Oshiro's other books in prep for this book because I was excited for The Sun and Star to be released and I just COULD NOT get through it šŸ˜­ the writing was just giving me the ick and the characters where all kind of samie like that sassy talking wit. Which was a bummer because I liked the premise of the book ā€œAnger is a Giftā€, which was about underfunded schools mainly facing ppl of color and immigrants which leads to the school-to-prison pipeline because of the defunct way America funds public schools that keeps the poor poor and the rich getting richer & it was ACAB & had a lot of queer representation & etc. So I thought Iā€™d really like it but I just couldnā€™t get through it because of the writing and I noticed this same writing style showing up in TSATS. Just because itā€™s for kids doesnā€™t excuse it from being bad. Like early Pixar and Studio Ghibli is still so good to watch back again and my 50+ yrs old parents like it. Book examples would be Harry Potter (screw JK Rowling tho fr) & the The Little Prince
Not to bash on ppl who say this is the main reason ppl donā€™t like the book but it feels like a straw man argument to say that the books not growing with us is the main reason ppl didnt like it. All tho Iā€™m sure ppl have argued this but that is definitely their fault because Rick is staying in middle-grade fiction forever like thatā€™s his thing! Why would ppl expect different šŸ¤£ You think he wants to write a sex scene?! LMAO
(Hereā€™s my review, itā€™s unhinged and not great because I should be doing productive stuff but am distracted until I can at least write down some of my thoughts on my disappointing experience)
Here are some things I didnā€™t like about it from a piece of art standpoint:
The pacing was bad
This book was filled with the first thing they teach you about writing which is: SHOW donā€™t TELL
It made me not ship Solangelo surprisingly like how??! I used to love Solangelo but I think this mainly is because of the collective consciousness of the fandom and because we wanted Nico to find happiness with someone. But if you really look back on their moments canonically from the books Will is a background character (who honestly kind of gaslights Nico by invalidating that ppl treated him differently as a son of Hades and that he didn't feel welcome at camp) and they kind of have a quick meet cute in the last book of The Last Olympian. They get together without us seeing their developing relationship and we now know theyā€™re dating in The Trials of Apollo where we see them briefly in the first book and then more so in the last book. Honestly, this canonically alone doesnā€™t give me enough information or examples to really know or care about their relationship in comparison to Percy and Annabeth who we get to see develop. So TSATS just kind of felt hollow to me because Iā€™m supposed to believe theyā€™d die for each other but I DONT KNOW THE POWER OF THEIR LOVE?? This could just be a first love fling type thing like I was never shown the depth of their romance just told constantly in the book how much they love each other so it just felt kind of empty and emotionally unsatisfying to me.
Solangelo's relationship has always been in the background and the fans are what really made it cause we love Nico and want him to be happy. So when Will and Nico are fighting in this book all I can think is that this is just their relationship period.
So the reason it made me not like Solangelo was because Tarturus was supposed to bring out the worst in them and strain their relationship but, like, I havenā€™t really seen much of their relationship so I donā€™t have a ā€œcontrol groupā€ to base this off of. So Will just seemed rude when he was so mean about Nicoā€™s underworld home and about Nico's darkness which I also didnā€™t understand wtf he was talking about because Nico has killed just as many monsters as other campers and what else was his darknes based off of. cause heā€™s emo/goth?? Cause he can raise the dead?? Like guys weā€™ve discussed this just because a character wears black doesn't automatically make them the bad guy. I honestly thought Will just thought that was hot and theyā€™d have that normie x alt relationship dynamic (that meme of: My hot witch wife. Me doing whatever she wants) I thought THAT was Solangelo not Will constantly trying to bring this light side to him and trying to change him. I agree that Nico needs help w his trauma and PTSD and things like that but this felt like if someone tried to ā€œcureā€ a goth person, like actually screw you
I thought Will was supposed to look like a normie but be secretly a freak (in a good way lol) / goth interest. Cause this is meee I thought I was like Will as someone who looks like a normie and has a sunny disposition but I have a lot of alt/goth interests and I would let an alt girlie step all over me tbh lol. So does he like Nico for who he is or not?!
This is more in line w what I thought their relationship was like lol:
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The flashbacks and forwards I thought were ok even if they took you out of the story a bit but this device is supposed to be used for an IMPORTANT event not just as a way to quickly give context to their relationship and when we got to the scene this was taking place in I was like thatā€™s it?? He what? fell down and is suffering from sun withdrawals and this is the book's big moment to justify jarring flashback scenes?
Mark Oshiro is not a fantasy adventure or horror writer and it shows. Maybe itā€™s just me but their depiction of Tarturus and the nightmare and the journey were just not up to snuff with good horror and fantasy books Iā€™ve read. (And if your gonna say something about how itā€™s for kids then I raise you the book series ā€œGoosbumpsā€) So as a genre in itself, it was just disappointing. It was mainly a relationship guidebook book but I didnā€™t really like that or feel like it was done well, It felt lectury and also idk if that's the genre middle schoolers really like?? šŸ˜…
It had too many references which really dates a book, A lot of professional writers say not to use too much slang or modernreferences (unless youā€™re trying to make a book expressly about a time period) because it really dates a book and doesnā€™t make a story feel timeless for future generations if you use too many references (this doesnā€™t include political novels tho which are very much based in that time when the events happening) Anyways for future writers keep this in mind, you don't need to keep in touch with the youth through urban dictionary you can just write about the emotions of being young or whatever. If youā€™ve tried to read a comic book aimed at teens from the 50s like I have youā€™ll realise how funny that is.
(Also the carebear reference that I didnā€™t even understand and I watched carebear as a kid & Lil Nas video which if this was written for kids that music video feels a bit inappropriate for them šŸ˜‚ it had a reference both too old and too young for middle schoolers AND how in the world would 1930s born, dropped out of elementary school, canā€™t use the internet or phones half blood, NICO DI ANGELO know these references???)
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Bad alt representation. (This is my most out-of-pocket opinionated bullet point rant so if you don't agree thatā€™s a-okay :D ) This could be a whole post in itself but although I know ppl joke about Nico as the Emo kid I would really like to get into how Nico is actually, or it would be cool, as having some goth subculture inclinations. And ppl probably think of Trad Goths with the whole makeup and teased hair look but itā€™s mainly a music-based subculture and/or it just has a different idealogy around the ideas of death and what is deemed beautiful while most ppl see it as ugly. (Like listen to ā€œGallows Danceā€ or the Bauhaus's ā€œBela Lugosiā€™s Deadā€ & ā€œThe Passion of Loversā€, to name songs off the top of my head) This bullet point is definitely MY OPINION and doesnā€™t contribute exactly to the book being bad but arenā€™t those songs the vibe of an underworld kid like Nico?? Embracing the darkness and dancing in graveyard vibes fr!! Anyways most alt subcultures and especially emo are seen as a phase in life that you grow out of and then become normal. This book just really gives the energy of being written by a normie who would be confused by the choices of alt ppl and just doesnā€™t get it because itā€™s not their personal interest, which isnā€™t exactly bad even tho I want more philosophy from Nico on the chillness and acceptance of death (all tho greek mythologies view on the afterlife sucks fr and THAT is a whole other post haha) So this isnā€™t exactly a problem BUT what gives me the ick is WILL NOT ACCEPTING THESE THINGS LIKE SIR STOP BASHING YOUR BOYFRIENDS LIFE!! Will asking Persephonee, ā€œHow do you love someone from the underworldā€ SHUT UP!! šŸ˜¤
Will was useless and I know what they were trying to go for but if I had a girlfriend (oh Iā€™m a lesbian btw just in case ppl think Iā€™m going harder on this book more than the other books because Iā€™m homophobic bruh I swear Iā€™m not Iā€™m only disappointed in the art itself, NOT the representation which I actually liked) and if I was super good at fighting and they werenā€™t, Iā€™m sorry but I wouldnā€™t take them BECAUSE of my love for them. If they were going to be useless on a mission of such life-threatening danger and importance I WOULD NOT TAKE THEM OUT OF KINDNESS. Like skills in medicine and art and music are great and thereā€™s of course nothing wrong w not being a badass fighter (lmao this is me and most readers) but then DONT GO TO SUPER HELL!!! Especially if you have something that makes you more pathetic than being a normal human in Tarturus, his suffering from no sunlight is out of pocket and just makes the story draggg and makes him seem boring and the story more boring. I know they were trying to go for a fish out of water storyline and roll reversal but I think it wasnā€™t done well enough and overall hurt the story
Also, Iā€™ve heard ppl talk about how it would have been nice to have a book focus on their relationship while at Camp Half-Blood. Like maybe it takes place pre Jason's death and we can just see them living at camp. Itā€™d be chill and we can actually see them as a couple & It would give the energy of readers wanting to go to camp half-blood again like how everyone wanted to go to Hogwarts. Cause we havenā€™t seen the camp as a fun home since the very early PJO books ;-; (this is just a fun idea I like and I think would have been more manageable for an author but this is FR my opinion on a fun book idea iā€™d like to read) ALSO this would have been so nostalgic for the older readers who have been here since middle school gobbling up this universe šŸ˜Œ
I know ppl get mad at ppl making fun of Will for being pathetic in tarturous. As saying heā€™s a child and no one can be happy and sunny and doing well 24/7 which is valid but thatā€™s not really my argument. I like watching characters put in situations where we watch them bend against what we thought they were when put in a hard situation (the masochist in me lol jkjjk). But this I think didnā€™t work for me because as Iā€™ve said before heā€™s mainly a background character at the end of one book thrown together with Nico and we as a fandom have mainly made him up. Also, Tarturus was just not as scary or adventure-filled as like any of the other missions from previous PJO books, It didnā€™t feel as trauma-inducing as everyone in the series tried to explain it as. (again show not tell from the book) Also, I would have liked to have seen Will cool at least once or one reason for me to like him with Nico but I saw him as pretty bland as a character
The writing style felt bad to me because of the show donā€™t tell part for example telling as ā€œit made him sad and traumatizedā€ when showing would be, you know, actually showing the scenes and this book just felt like 80% telling what they were feeling instead of letting the reader feel the emotions of the scene for themselves
I think thatā€™s another thing I really didnā€™t like related to the Show Don't Tell. And another hallmark of bad writing was this book was really telling the audience how to feel instead of allowing the story to be powerful enough to do that for itself. This book follows a trend Iā€™ve seen a lot in TV shows where everything kind of feels like detached irony from being on Twitter where you hear everyoneā€™s opinions so the story is written as a wink and a nod like we know what weā€™re doing and we know what your thinking and how twitter will react to it. Like itā€™s hard to describe this trend Iā€™ve mainly seen in TV shows and movies recently which always gives me the ick cause it doesnā€™t feel funny it feels like Iā€™m in a response piece that is breaking the fourth wall and reminds me that Iā€™m in reality watching or reading something instead of actually feeling like Iā€™m in the story. Itā€™s like pseudo-wittiness or something. Tell me if you guys feel this way about some modern tv shows or books, I can't be alone please šŸ˜­!!
The stupid toast scene at the end lol The book is like: Do you get it? Did you get it?? Theyā€™re opposites! And they attract!! We did the trope you guys!! Also, the stupid Darth Vader scene to start off the book šŸ’€
This whole book made me cringe where I had to constantly get up walk around and lie on the floor before I could continue, only to constantly repeat the cycle šŸ˜…
Anyway, idk how to end this review/rant I just had such strong emotions I had to get out probably because I was so excited for this book to come out for like over a year and got back into PJO for a bit and read some of Mark Oshiroā€™s books and greek mythology and stuff, so I think it wasnā€™t just me reading any random bad book it disappointed me more that it was poor quality because I wanted to love it so much.
It did have some actually good parts, the troglodytes were cute ā€¦ I canā€™t remember the other stuff but it was there I swear lol! If you enjoyed it Iā€™m happy for you! Donā€™t let me ruin a book you like, you deserve to feel joy šŸ˜˜šŸ’
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Valid point I keep finding BUT I recently read the PJO series again in preparation for TSATS and those books still slap!! Theyā€™re so good even tho Iā€™m reading them as an adult even though they're meant for kids. (Also I recently read ToA because of course Iā€™m gonna keep reading Rickā€™s middle school books until the day I die or they stop coming out lol. And that series while more goofy at points I still really liked) I also read one of Mark Oshiro's other books in prep for this book because I was excited for The Sun and Star to be released and I just COULD NOT get through it šŸ˜­ the writing was just giving me the ick and the characters where all kind of samie like that sassy talking wit. Which was a bummer because I liked the premise of the book ā€œAnger is a Giftā€, which was about underfunded schools mainly facing ppl of color and immigrants which leads to the school-to-prison pipeline because of the defunct way America funds public schools that keeps the poor poor and the rich getting richer & it was ACAB & had a lot of queer representation & etc. So I thought Iā€™d really like it but I just couldnā€™t get through it because of the writing and I noticed this same writing style showing up in TSATS. Just because itā€™s for kids doesnā€™t excuse it from being bad. Like early Pixar and Studio Ghibli is still so good to watch back again and my 50+ yrs old parents like it. Book examples would be Harry Potter (screw JK Rowling tho fr) & the The Little Prince
Not to bash on ppl who say this is the main reason ppl donā€™t like the book but it feels like a straw man argument to say that the books not growing with us is the main reason ppl didnt like it. All tho Iā€™m sure ppl have argued this but that is definitely their fault because Rick is staying in middle-grade fiction forever like thatā€™s his thing! Why would ppl expect different šŸ¤£ You think he wants to write a sex scene?! LMAO
(Hereā€™s my review, itā€™s unhinged and not great because I should be doing productive stuff but am distracted until I can at least write down some of my thoughts on my disappointing experience)
Here are some things I didnā€™t like about it from a piece of art standpoint:
The pacing was bad
This book was filled with the first thing they teach you about writing which is: SHOW donā€™t TELL
It made me not ship Solangelo surprisingly like how??! I used to love Solangelo but I think this mainly is because of the collective consciousness of the fandom and because we wanted Nico to find happiness with someone. But if you really look back on their moments canonically from the books Will is a background character (who honestly kind of gaslights Nico by invalidating that ppl treated him differently as a son of Hades and that he didn't feel welcome at camp) and they kind of have a quick meet cute in the last book of The Last Olympian. They get together without us seeing their developing relationship and we now know theyā€™re dating in The Trials of Apollo where we see them briefly in the first book and then more so in the last book. Honestly, this canonically alone doesnā€™t give me enough information or examples to really know or care about their relationship in comparison to Percy and Annabeth who we get to see develop. So TSATS just kind of felt hollow to me because Iā€™m supposed to believe theyā€™d die for each other but I DONT KNOW THE POWER OF THEIR LOVE?? This could just be a first love fling type thing like I was never shown the depth of their romance just told constantly in the book how much they love each other so it just felt kind of empty and emotionally unsatisfying to me.
Solangelo's relationship has always been in the background and the fans are what really made it cause we love Nico and want him to be happy. So when Will and Nico are fighting in this book all I can think is that this is just their relationship period.
So the reason it made me not like Solangelo was because Tarturus was supposed to bring out the worst in them and strain their relationship but, like, I havenā€™t really seen much of their relationship so I donā€™t have a ā€œcontrol groupā€ to base this off of. So Will just seemed rude when he was so mean about Nicoā€™s underworld home and about Nico's darkness which I also didnā€™t understand wtf he was talking about because Nico has killed just as many monsters as other campers and what else was his darknes based off of. cause heā€™s emo/goth?? Cause he can raise the dead?? Like guys weā€™ve discussed this just because a character wears black doesn't automatically make them the bad guy. I honestly thought Will just thought that was hot and theyā€™d have that normie x alt relationship dynamic (that meme of: My hot witch wife. Me doing whatever she wants) I thought THAT was Solangelo not Will constantly trying to bring this light side to him and trying to change him. I agree that Nico needs help w his trauma and PTSD and things like that but this felt like if someone tried to ā€œcureā€ a goth person, like actually screw you
I thought Will was supposed to look like a normie but be secretly a freak (in a good way lol) / goth interest. Cause this is meee I thought I was like Will as someone who looks like a normie and has a sunny disposition but I have a lot of alt/goth interests and I would let an alt girlie step all over me tbh lol. So does he like Nico for who he is or not?!
This is more in line w what I thought their relationship was like lol:
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The flashbacks and forwards I thought were ok even if they took you out of the story a bit but this device is supposed to be used for an IMPORTANT event not just as a way to quickly give context to their relationship and when we got to the scene this was taking place in I was like thatā€™s it?? He what? fell down and is suffering from sun withdrawals and this is the book's big moment to justify jarring flashback scenes?
Mark Oshiro is not a fantasy adventure or horror writer and it shows. Maybe itā€™s just me but their depiction of Tarturus and the nightmare and the journey were just not up to snuff with good horror and fantasy books Iā€™ve read. (And if your gonna say something about how itā€™s for kids then I raise you the book series ā€œGoosbumpsā€) So as a genre in itself, it was just disappointing. It was mainly a relationship guidebook book but I didnā€™t really like that or feel like it was done well, It felt lectury and also idk if that's the genre middle schoolers really like?? šŸ˜…
It had too many references which really dates a book, A lot of professional writers say not to use too much slang or modernreferences (unless youā€™re trying to make a book expressly about a time period) because it really dates a book and doesnā€™t make a story feel timeless for future generations if you use too many references (this doesnā€™t include political novels tho which are very much based in that time when the events happening) Anyways for future writers keep this in mind, you don't need to keep in touch with the youth through urban dictionary you can just write about the emotions of being young or whatever. If youā€™ve tried to read a comic book aimed at teens from the 50s like I have youā€™ll realise how funny that is.
(Also the carebear reference that I didnā€™t even understand and I watched carebear as a kid & Lil Nas video which if this was written for kids that music video feels a bit inappropriate for them šŸ˜‚ it had a reference both too old and too young for middle schoolers AND how in the world would 1930s born, dropped out of elementary school, canā€™t use the internet or phones half blood, NICO DI ANGELO know these references???)
Itā€™s giving:
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Bad alt representation. (This is my most out-of-pocket opinionated bullet point rant so if you don't agree thatā€™s a-okay :D ) This could be a whole post in itself but although I know ppl joke about Nico as the Emo kid I would really like to get into how Nico is actually, or it would be cool, as having some goth subculture inclinations. And ppl probably think of Trad Goths with the whole makeup and teased hair look but itā€™s mainly a music-based subculture and/or it just has a different idealogy around the ideas of death and what is deemed beautiful while most ppl see it as ugly. (Like listen to ā€œGallows Danceā€ or the Bauhaus's ā€œBela Lugosiā€™s Deadā€ & ā€œThe Passion of Loversā€, to name songs off the top of my head) This bullet point is definitely MY OPINION and doesnā€™t contribute exactly to the book being bad but arenā€™t those songs the vibe of an underworld kid like Nico?? Embracing the darkness and dancing in graveyard vibes fr!! Anyways most alt subcultures and especially emo are seen as a phase in life that you grow out of and then become normal. This book just really gives the energy of being written by a normie who would be confused by the choices of alt ppl and just doesnā€™t get it because itā€™s not their personal interest, which isnā€™t exactly bad even tho I want more philosophy from Nico on the chillness and acceptance of death (all tho greek mythologies view on the afterlife sucks fr and THAT is a whole other post haha) So this isnā€™t exactly a problem BUT what gives me the ick is WILL NOT ACCEPTING THESE THINGS LIKE SIR STOP BASHING YOUR BOYFRIENDS LIFE!! Will asking Persephonee, ā€œHow do you love someone from the underworldā€ SHUT UP!! šŸ˜¤
Will was useless and I know what they were trying to go for but if I had a girlfriend (oh Iā€™m a lesbian btw just in case ppl think Iā€™m going harder on this book more than the other books because Iā€™m homophobic bruh I swear Iā€™m not Iā€™m only disappointed in the art itself, NOT the representation which I actually liked) and if I was super good at fighting and they werenā€™t, Iā€™m sorry but I wouldnā€™t take them BECAUSE of my love for them. If they were going to be useless on a mission of such life-threatening danger and importance I WOULD NOT TAKE THEM OUT OF KINDNESS. Like skills in medicine and art and music are great and thereā€™s of course nothing wrong w not being a badass fighter (lmao this is me and most readers) but then DONT GO TO SUPER HELL!!! Especially if you have something that makes you more pathetic than being a normal human in Tarturus, his suffering from no sunlight is out of pocket and just makes the story draggg and makes him seem boring and the story more boring. I know they were trying to go for a fish out of water storyline and roll reversal but I think it wasnā€™t done well enough and overall hurt the story
Also, Iā€™ve heard ppl talk about how it would have been nice to have a book focus on their relationship while at Camp Half-Blood. Like maybe it takes place pre Jason's death and we can just see them living at camp. Itā€™d be chill and we can actually see them as a couple & It would give the energy of readers wanting to go to camp half-blood again like how everyone wanted to go to Hogwarts. Cause we havenā€™t seen the camp as a fun home since the very early PJO books ;-; (this is just a fun idea I like and I think would have been more manageable for an author but this is FR my opinion on a fun book idea iā€™d like to read) ALSO this would have been so nostalgic for the older readers who have been here since middle school gobbling up this universe šŸ˜Œ
I know ppl get mad at ppl making fun of Will for being pathetic in tarturous. As saying heā€™s a child and no one can be happy and sunny and doing well 24/7 which is valid but thatā€™s not really my argument. I like watching characters put in situations where we watch them bend against what we thought they were when put in a hard situation (the masochist in me lol jkjjk). But this I think didnā€™t work for me because as Iā€™ve said before heā€™s mainly a background character at the end of one book thrown together with Nico and we as a fandom have mainly made him up. Also, Tarturus was just not as scary or adventure-filled as like any of the other missions from previous PJO books, It didnā€™t feel as trauma-inducing as everyone in the series tried to explain it as. (again show not tell from the book) Also, I would have liked to have seen Will cool at least once or one reason for me to like him with Nico but I saw him as pretty bland as a character
The writing style felt bad to me because of the show donā€™t tell part for example telling as ā€œit made him sad and traumatizedā€ when showing would be, you know, actually showing the scenes and this book just felt like 80% telling what they were feeling instead of letting the reader feel the emotions of the scene for themselves
I think thatā€™s another thing I really didnā€™t like related to the Show Don't Tell. And another hallmark of bad writing was this book was really telling the audience how to feel instead of allowing the story to be powerful enough to do that for itself. This book follows a trend Iā€™ve seen a lot in TV shows where everything kind of feels like detached irony from being on Twitter where you hear everyoneā€™s opinions so the story is written as a wink and a nod like we know what weā€™re doing and we know what your thinking and how twitter will react to it. Like itā€™s hard to describe this trend Iā€™ve mainly seen in TV shows and movies recently which always gives me the ick cause it doesnā€™t feel funny it feels like Iā€™m in a response piece that is breaking the fourth wall and reminds me that Iā€™m in reality watching or reading something instead of actually feeling like Iā€™m in the story. Itā€™s like pseudo-wittiness or something. Tell me if you guys feel this way about some modern tv shows or books, I can't be alone please šŸ˜­!!
The stupid toast scene at the end lol The book is like: Do you get it? Did you get it?? Theyā€™re opposites! And they attract!! We did the trope you guys!! Also, the stupid Darth Vader scene to start off the book šŸ’€
This whole book made me cringe where I had to constantly get up walk around and lie on the floor before I could continue, only to constantly repeat the cycle šŸ˜…
Anyway, idk how to end this review/rant I just had such strong emotions I had to get out probably because I was so excited for this book to come out for like over a year and got back into PJO for a bit and read some of Mark Oshiroā€™s books and greek mythology and stuff, so I think it wasnā€™t just me reading any random bad book it disappointed me more that it was poor quality because I wanted to love it so much.
It did have some actually good parts, the troglodytes were cute ā€¦ I canā€™t remember the other stuff but it was there I swear lol! If you enjoyed it Iā€™m happy for you! Donā€™t let me ruin a book you like, you deserve to feel joy šŸ˜˜šŸ’
I hate people who legitimately expected rick Riordan to write the tsats book for mature audiences and whine when it obviously wasn't and scream "well he's aware that he has a lot of adult fans so he should accommodate us" LIKE?? NO??? THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS???
YES, Rick Riordan IS aware you exist but you are no longer his target audience. You can appreciate the book as an adult for being great literature but if you're looking for a mature book THEN GO READ A FUCKING BIG BOY BOOK??
There's plenty of great YA fantasy out there.
Rick isn't going to stop writing books for middle schoolers just because you feel entitled to it?? That's not how it fucking works???
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see what i find unrealistic about tsats is that Nico is the first person at camp to come out. like these are all children of the GREEK GODS and not a single one of them ever came out????????? fake.
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Lmaoooo and HOW WOULD NICO OF ALL PPL EVEN KNOW THIS REFERENCE?!???
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SIR THIS IS A MIDDLE GRADE BOOK
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Dude YES!!! Iā€™m so excited for this!!!! šŸ’ƒšŸ»šŸ•ŗšŸ¼šŸ¤ŗ
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So, this is based off of a commission prompt given to me by @readerwithsalt about an alternative story to the sun and the star since a lot of people disliked the book and the amount of canon material erased, characterization being off, pacing and writing being bad, etc.... and most of all: Lack of Hazel Levesque.
I read the book three days ago since I used to be a huge fan of Nico & Hazel when I was a freshman and also thought it was.... not great. Mostly because it dragged and bored me a bit.
I really liked the idea of this alternative story so I'm making a fancomic, scene for scene chapter style, with a more (in personal opinion) entertaining and juicy plot line. This is more of a side project of mine since I'm currently working on my webtoons.
Read the prompt story on their blog if interested to see where the story is heading.
(Also this is no hate to people who happened to enjoy the book :)
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So, this is based off of a commission prompt given to me by @readerwithsalt about an alternative story to the sun and the star since a lot of people disliked the book and the amount of canon material erased, characterization being off, pacing and writing being bad, etc.... and most of all: Lack of Hazel Levesque.
I read the book three days ago since I used to be a huge fan of Nico & Hazel when I was a freshman and also thought it was.... not great. Mostly because it dragged and bored me a bit.
I really liked the idea of this alternative story so I'm making a fancomic, scene for scene chapter style, with a more (in personal opinion) entertaining and juicy plot line. This is more of a side project of mine since I'm currently working on my webtoons.
Read the prompt story on their blog if interested to see where the story is heading.
(Also this is no hate to people who happened to enjoy the book :)
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FINALLY!!! I find someone who understands my pain lol it feels nice to not think of these things alone šŸ™‡ā€ā™€ļøšŸ˜­
Opinion on both lol, if its still good for you
Well personally Iā€™ve always been a Solangelo shipper. But sadly the reason was never because I liked Will solace. The reason I was so diehard was because I wanted Nicos character to finally to be happy lol.
The reason I was not particularly fond of Will solace:
wellā€¦ the biggest reason was before he became Nicoā€™s boyfriend he was never really a character on his own, you know? Like all of the other (straight) couples each was a character by themselves with growth, their own povs, arcs and stuff and then Nico (one of the most famed characters since the first series) was shoved together quite forcibly with this random background character that no one really remembered existed lol.
Now Iā€™m not saying that having a background character shoved with a main character is always bad, butā€¦
Anyway, another reason was Willā€™s utter disrespect to Nico in BOO. I know people say that Will only gaslighted Nico because Nico deserved it but personally I donā€™t think so. Will gaslighted Nico into believing that he was stupid pretty much. Saying that ā€˜no one at camp ever pushed him awayā€™ (a lie since weā€™ve seen and been told the exact opposite in all the previous books) and telling the most traumatized character in the series that he just needs to ā€˜get out of his brooding cloudā€™. And pretty much saying heā€™s dumb for wanting to leave a camp that ostracized him for years lol.
I couldnā€™t help comparing Willā€™s angry and disrespectful reaction to Nicoā€™s pain and feeling like an outcast in BOO to Jasonā€™s understanding and respectful reaction to it. I was wondering why Rick made Will so annoying and pushy and rude and Jason so understanding and respectful of Nicos boundaries.
Will is very pushy, and he is always acting like Nico doesnā€™t know how to take care of himself and how to use his own powers even though Nico has been taking care of himself since he was ten years old. Itā€™s not quite fun to read.
In ToN I liked Will a bit more tbh. I thought he was more respectful of Nico and stuff. But the thing that was still lacking was: character info. I know the pov was in apollos but still there wasnā€™t much.
In tsats they cranked up everything I disliked about Will up to eleven. They made him EXTREMELY whiny on a quest he insisted on going on. They made him feel burdensome. They made him feelā€¦ lame. He was a drag to read about. And for some reason they insisted on shoving Solangelo into the Light/Dark trope and made Will out to be someone who had never done anything bad in his life and couldnā€™t understand what personal darkness was even though he is a battlefield medic and knows it firsthand.
And it irked me that they kept having Nico describe Will as perfect and stuff and almost act as if Nico doesnā€™t deserve Will when, in my opinion, it is completely the other way around. Will almost seems to tolerate Nico more than like him in tsats lol. I wasnā€™t really a fan of it tbh.
They didnā€™t do anything special with Will and every piece of backstory we got from him was like eating plain white bread. Thatā€™s what his character felt like.
Plain white bread. šŸž
I donā€™t consider tsats to be canon tho because of the fact that mark oshiro changed riordans original outline of the book, named the book himself, and wrote 80% of it šŸ˜‚. So yeah itā€™s pretty much published fanfic with an ā€˜okayā€™ from the original writer sadly.
I suppose the reason I donā€™t like Solangelo is because of Will not being a real character more like a cardboard cutout so that Nico wonā€™t be alone romantically (even though heā€™s 14 and donā€™t need a man lol)
And one more reason Iā€™m not quite into Solangelo anymore is that it seemed like when they got together that all of Nicos other important relationships took a backseat. In particular his relationship with Hazel. We had chapters of Nico and Hazel bonding and as soon as heā€™s shoved with Will solace his relationship with his favorite person is thrown to the windā€¦.
Yeah.
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Is it just me or is anyone else surprised to find out that Megumi has a cut six pack?!
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The BIGGEST glow up in history is from JJK volume 18 by Kirara šŸ˜«šŸ’…šŸ”„šŸ«¦
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I'm a sucker for a fucked up relationships. It's about that unhinged obsession. Limitless devotion. Love to the point of destruction.
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im like if a really boring girl had a lot of things wrong with her
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I'm a sucker for a fucked up relationships. It's about that unhinged obsession. Limitless devotion. Love to the point of destruction.
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I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT TADASHIS LIFE IN SK8!!! Like where are the ppl (parents) in his life who were like ā€œhey youā€™re kinda destroying yourself in this idea of being a perfect servant to a man whoā€™s badā€
Like itā€™d be one thing if his dad wasnā€™t a servant there and was ignorant to the fact that the whole family had a twister since of love & abuse BUT HE WORKED THERE HE SHOULD HAVE KNOWN!! (They really seem like the type who treat poor ppl like šŸ’©)
So anyways I have some theoryā€™s if this is never explored again:
1 his parents are dead ;-; idk it would just make sense that maybe now that theyā€™re gone and heā€™s on his own the Shindo mansion is now like his only remaining family.
2 He has completely split off from all forms of family and friends to be apart of hustle culture šŸ¤® and each passing year he drifts farther from those he loved. Also of course work & wealth can be praised to a toxic degree so perhaps his servant/lower class family are proud of him more than they miss him ;-;
3 I forgot idk I JUST WANT TO JNOW MORE ABOUT HIM WHY CAN HE FLY A HELICOPTER WHAT ELSE DOES HE KNOW?? WHY IS HE ALWAYS THE ONLY SECRETARY IN THE ROOM? WHAT DOES HIS JOB ENTAIL? IS HE ACTUALLY DOING MOST OF THE JOB FOR ADAM W NONE OF THE CREDIT??
I WANT ANSWERS!
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