Dear Rick, I am very mad at you. You know why. "Gods. I can't even think right now. Is that normal? Like, just forgetting how to think?"

I'm happy to say this is my favourite Trials of Apollo so far. I finally started to see the master scheme starting to come together, and it was entrancing from start to finish. The Arrow of Dodona is one of my new favourite characters. I mean... "The arrow went deadly still. BUT SOOTH. IS THIS A CROSSWORD I SEE BEFORE ME? VERILY, I DOTH LOVE CROSSWORDS."

This book had everything. Politics, "I intend to overthrow the human race and institute a government for the horses, by the horses"; heroes "when Jason Grace thrust out his arms, and the cage of wind exploded"; and of course, ridiculously long-named Roman emperors. I'm looking at you Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus.

I have loved watching Apollo evolve as he spends more time on earth. Hopefully he will follow some of the best advice he was ever given. "Promise me one thing. Whatever happens, when you get back to Olympus, when you're a god again, remember. Remember what it's like to be human."