This book is action packed, mysterious, and even a little scary. In The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan, the characters are always out numbered and constantly solving tons of problems. The book is the third in a series called The Heroes of Olympus.  This book is about seven characters named Frank, Hazel, Leo, Piper, Jason, Annabeth, and Percy. They are all demigods.  The main story is about the characters travelling to Rome to follow the Mark of Athena. The Mark Of Athena is a Quest only Annabeth can do, alone. They travel on a flying ship, but they main setting is Rome, Italy.

One of the main characters, Percy, is brave, a natural leader and able to survive on his own.  Percy is brave because he fought Crysor (a gold pirate) all by himself. He is a natural leader because he takes charge and wants to protect everyone as much as he wants to protect himself.  He is able to survive on his own because when all of his other teammates were knocked out, and Crysor’s henchmen threatened to kill them with a dagger, he found a way to beat Crysor.  When they get to Rome, Annabeth finds where the Mark of Athena starts. Then she goes into a dark cave and is outnumbered by monsters but uses her knowledge to get out of it.  Then she had to face her greatest fear, spiders! She also had to defeat her mother’s (Athena) arch nemesis, the Arachne. Arachne was turned into a spider because she bragged too much.  The way Annabeth defeated Arachne was she tricked her into weaving a Chinese finger trap for her to get stuck in.  After the defeat, Annabeth reclaimed the Athena Parthenos.  Meanwhile, Percy, Piper and Jason also had their own mini quest.  This involved defeating the twin giants Otis and Ephialtes.  They had to get a god’s help to destroy them. After they won, they reclaimed their prize, which was Nico, another demigod who was captured by the giants.

I think this book was amazing because there are a lot of different things that are happening on every page. I love the author’s writing style I think it is good because he uses a lot of big words. It is a long book but is fast paced.  There are a lot of challenges that the characters face, which keeps the book interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes action, adventure, and mythology. If you have read the previous two books to this, you should definitely keep reading the series.  A book that is similar to this series is Percy Jackson also by Rick Riordan.  I give this book 5 stars.