Long time coming. I first started reading this series (and I mean the entire Camp Half Blood series) when I was 8 and it's taken this long to finally finish them 😭 Apollo my beloved shithead. He grows on you. Like mold.

Not five stars because it felt... anticlimactic? Like I'm not sure why, this had basically every hallmark of a grand finale and didn't quite reach it for me. I think my gripe is that the status quo essentially remained the same while Apollo himself developed a lot as a character. I get that not every abusive parental situation can be resolved neatly but... we're really going to set up Zeus as a tyrant and compare him to Nero and not really do anything about it huh