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The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
3.0

About time I get around to reviewing this series.

I grew up on these books, and I absolutely adored them. Demigod wakes up on a bus with no memory but awesome powers? Sign me up! The Lost Hero is probably my least favorite of this series, but it was still a great story. I wasn't in love with Piper and Jason, but Leo. Leo Valdez, man. If you read this series for no other reason, read it for Leo Valdez. He's hilarious and funny and /fun/. Plus, his powers are amazing and so fun to read.

One complaint is that these books are all super long. When I was initially reading them in middle school, I didn't care about that at all. In fact, I wanted them to be longer. But the further into the series you get, the more they seem to repeat themselves and the more recap happens and while some of it is important, I think a looot could have been shaved off and that would have helped the pacing of these books big time. But if you're a fan of the PJ universe, then you probably won't care. You can always skim, too, which is how I usually reread these books. What can you do? There are so many books to read and only so much time!