The Mark of Athena (The heroes of Olympus #3) Rick Riordan

Wisdom´s daughter walks alone
The Mark of Athena burns trough Rome,
Twins snuff out the angel´s breath
Who holds the key to endless death,
Giants´ bane stands gold and pale
Won trough pain from a woven jail

“Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus. Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don’t-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus.”

- Baccus/ Dionysus

He was rewarded with a silver-and-red can of soda. He brandished it at the dolphin warriors as if spraying them with bug repellant.
"Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!"
The dolphin-men began to panic. They were on the edge of retreat. Percy could feel it.”
- Percy Jackson

i The mark of athena återförenas Percy och Annabeth, när skeppet argo II anländer till camp Jupiter. Efter att Leo blivit besatt och attackerat lägermedlemmar så tvingas Percy, Annabeth, Leo, Frank, Hazel, Piper, Jason och coach Hedge att fly från hämndlystna romare.

På jakt efter information och planuppläggning om hur de ska besegra Gaea och hennes giganter, dras gänget in i ett äventyr över hav mot Rom. Där de behöver befria Hazel´s bror, Nico DiAngelo, från tvilling-giganterna Ephialtes och Otis, för att få informationen om hur man stänger dödens dörrar.

Samtidigt har Annabeth ett eget uppdrag, att finna Athena Parthenos-statyn och hämnas i sin moder, Athenas, namn. Ett uppdrag som ingen har återvänt från.

En totally awesome efterserie av, Rick Riordans, Percy Jackson-serien. Lättläst, rolig, spännande, händelserik och stundtals romantisk bok som verkligen håller upp måttet. Var kul att se hur alla karaktärerna skulle förhålla sig till varandra nu när de äntligen träffats

“What are you talking about?" Narcissus demanded. "I am amazing. Everyone knows this."
"Amazing at pure suck," Leo said. "If I was as suck as you, I'd drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.
- Leo Valdez

“They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It’s good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.”

- Percy Jackson

Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs. “Narcissus is a loser! He’s so weak, he can’t bench-press a Kleenex. He’s so lame, when you look up lame on Wikipedia, it’s got a picture of Narcissus—only the picture’s so ugly, no one ever checks it out.
- Leo Valdes

“Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?”
“Probably,” Frank said.“She’s not mortal,” Hedge said, sniffing the air. “Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus.”
“No doubt,” Percy agreed.
“Awesome.” Hedge grinned. “Let’s go.”



“Coach Hedge came pounding up the stairs with Hazel at his hooves.
“Where are they?” he demanded. “Who do I kill?”
“No killing!” Annabeth ordered. “Just defend the ship!”
“But they interrupted a Chuck Norris movie!”
- Coach Hedge och Hazel Levesque



Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass."
"A third test?" the pater demanded.
"Mithras was born from rock," Annabeth said, hoping she was right. "He emerged fully grown from the stone, holding his dagger and torch."
The screaming and wailing told her she had guessed correctly.
"The big mother knows all!" a ghost cried. "That is our most closely guarded secret!"
Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought.
- Annabeth Chase