The Mark of Athena (The Heroes of Olympus, #3)

by Rick Riordan

“This is a book!” Achelous said. “Oh, the smell of sheepskin! The elegant feel of the scroll unrolling beneath my hooves. You simply can’t duplicate it in something like that.” He nodded indignantly at the guidebook in Jason’s hand. “You young folks today and your newfangled gadgets. Bound pages. Little compact squares of text that are not hoof-friendly. That’s a bound book, a b-book, if you must. But it’s not a traditional book. It’ll never replace the good old-fashioned scroll!” “Um, I’ll just put this away now.”

Did he just.?

He probably wasn’t used to pretty girls threatening to cut his throat.

Average pretty girl temptation

Apparently even the strongest god in the world could be caught off guard when buried under fresh produce.

He’s in a pickle lol

she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: “Hey, how’s it going?” Annabeth: “Uh, no thanks.” Percy: “Okay…have you eaten anything today?” Annabeth: “I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.” Percy: “So, my hair is on fire.” Annabeth: “Okay. In a while.” She got like this sometimes. It was one of the challenges of dating an Athena girl.

Relatable fr

“Behold!” Percy shouted. “The god’s chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!” The dolphin-men began to panic.

*fear*

Sometimes mortals were even stranger than monsters.

..sometimes..?

“I know you,” she said. And you like me anyway? Percy wanted to ask, but he held it back.

Me.

Her foot went CRUNCH. She looked down and realized she’d just put her shoe through a human rib cage.

!

She had fallen off the lava wall at Camp Half-Blood. She’d been stabbed in the arm with a poison blade on the Williamsburg Bridge. She had even held the weight of the sky on her shoulders. But that was nothing compared to landing hard on her ankle. She immediately knew she’d broken it.

LOLL Anniebethy would rather hold the sky than break an ankle

Annabeth sat up and glared at her ankle. “You had to break,” she scolded it. The ankle did not reply.

Lol

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn’t get a big head.

Rick this feels targeted at Athena kids (me)

“I will destroy you!” Arachne promised. “I mean…no, I’ll be very nice to you if you let me out.”

Bombastic side eye

ANNABETH HAD SEEN SOME STRANGE THINGS BEFORE, but she’d never seen it rain cars.

No words