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4.5 Golden Stars

“it’s Magnus, rhymes with swag-ness!”

of course it does!

so much FUN!
Magnus is a street-smart lucky dumbass kid & that kind of sarcasm, different from Percy, with funny sense of humor I never thought about (like memes!), but when I read them, I was laughing my headd off, like 'my goodness! it's so true!' it was all I needed!
he literally talks in the language of sarcasm!
All the descriptions & comparisons, his comments in between a serious scene all made me crack up.
Unique funny Phrases, like always, Riordan's style!

I mean,
“It wasn’t much of a Rear-Rester. It was more of a Magnus-Mangle.”


Hearth & Blitz were awesome. I love them! Loyal, lovely, protective, funny friends. Hearth, my sweetheart!
Sam is such a badass. She's definitely in my top 10 favourite female characters.
Chapters titles were so funny!

this book maybe was not as good as the rest of the Magnus or compared to Percy Jackson; but it was different & funny, with stupid comments & stupid events the squad fell in, as someone might fell from the tree of the 9 worlds. *pun intended!*
Norse mythology maybe is one of my least favourite myths (because of many strange names.); but Riordan definitely knows how to describe it as an amusing, funny, modernized story which made many many of us interested in Norse myths.

p.s. You know it's better you've read Percy Jackson & Heroes of Olympus before this series. as you should know the characters (we have a few tiny crossovers too later on) also, you should know it's happening at the same time with Trials of Apollo.
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World building: ★★★★/5
Characters: ★★★★★/5
Written style: ★★★★(★)/5
Plot: ★★★★/5
General idea: ★★★★/5