This book is full of insightful essays on the Percy Jackson series. The vast majority of them were interesting to read, but a few I did not care for as they seemed sort of random compared to the others. The author’s introduction was insightful. My favourite part was the glossary at the back and the essay about the Rags to Riches plot line of the novel.

I really enjoyed this book, it left me smiling at the end. I don't say that often. I was surprised at how quick it seemed to read this book. I'd sit down, read a hundred pages, and then wonder how that happened without me noticing. it was much better than I was expecting.

Okay, so I read this on a whim because it was at my library and I thought "Why not? I'm taking a Woman's Human Rights class anyways." I figured this might be a good way to see what I was getting myself into, and I really hope this is what I'm getting myself into. The points Mary Beard discussed in the novel, about how we are fighting centuries of habit and a sort of thought control, were exactly what I feel, only she backed them up a whole lot better than I could. There were some political references that went over my head, but I found I had enough of an understanding to grasp at what she was saying, though I know I did not understand it completely. I was thoroughly engrossed in this book. Putting it down last night to sleep was so hard, especially because it is so short and the breaks are few and far between.

I recommend this to everyone.

Wow... um, that was not what I was expecting.

This was such an older book. I was expecting middle grade, and this is definitely more YA. I tried waiting a night to collect my thoughts but they are still very confused. So let's try and break this down a bit.

So I loved this book (if the five stars wasn't a giveaway). It takes place in a world I wanted more of, though the characters I wanted more of weren't there, it made me care for them nonetheless. I liked having a backstory to Lyra.

This book was so much more mature than I thought it would be. I guess that's why it's $30. There were more mature themes and there was even some swear words, which I wasn't expecting. I liked how the CCD was more prominent in the plot than the Magisterium had been in the first book, as the plot of The Golden Compass/Northern Lights relied more on the fact that Rodger was missing, not about the Magisterium.

And I think that's all I can force out coherently. Maybe I'll review this review later.

2.5

Not the worse book ever, but I was severely let down by how bad it was in comparison to My Lady Jane. The plot did not get interesting until chapter 23 and I didn't laugh until page 318. And even then it was more of an "I'd never thought of that before/I can't believe they actually did that!" instead of an oh so funny. Also, I don't feel like they did [b: Jane Eyre|10210|Jane Eyre|Charlotte Brontë|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327867269s/10210.jpg|2977639] much justice. The classic has a special place in my heart and this was just not the retelling I was hoping for.

5

Unfurtunatly I am in the group who thinks Celaena is anoying and stuck up and a horrible example of a progressive character.

This was actually not that bad except for pages 400-850. Everything else was great. I read The Name of the Wind in January and it's most likely going to be in my top favourite book I read in 2018, but the middle of this dragged, and dragged, and dragged. While a flew through this book, I was just so bored until about page 850. Then it ended sort of okay. The intermissions were a bit annoying. I'm not interested in what's happening around the tale Kvothe is telling and I'm really too interested in there being a plot and problems in the intermission world.

This is one of those books that gets better as you read. At first, I was "what in this world is this?" but half-way through this small book I was beginning to see the genius behind it. It was helpful that I read this in practically one sitting. I have to say I'm not a fan of the narrator. She is both an unlikeable narrator and an unreliable narrator, and while it was good for the concept of this book, I did not enjoy it. The saving grace was that it made me cry. Not a lot, but enough for me to know that I genuinely care about these characters.