"Immortality is a blessing, but also a curse from the Gods if you use it wrongly." Percy and his friends are sucked back into Camp Half-blood just in time for the Titans to try and raise Kronos (the Titan lord of time) up from the depths of the underworld. The characters changed dramatically throughout the book. Rick Riordan's The Titans Curse captured the full effect of mythological Gods and Titans in this enduring third book to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.
Although the main character from the book is Percy Jackson, one of the Hunters of Artemis really hit home with me. Zoe Nightshade, a lady that is much older than she looks, took the fierce love of a friend and being a Hunter to heart. "He is a boy, a son of Poseidon, we cannot trust him." She says this when she first meets Percy at the Westover Military Academy. She didn't really like men at all which caused her to join Artemis and the Hunters to swear away from a romantic relationship with any man. Zoe never depended on a boy or a man to protect her from anything, and that is one thing I admire about her no matter how tough things had gotten she never depended on Percy or Grover to save her. I myself have never been real fond of depending on anybody much less a guy, and I always try to do it myself before I even consider asking for help. Yet, Zoe changed toward the end of the book "Percy is a brave warrior for my lady, he may be a man after all." She changed from calling him a boy to a man, so her respect for Percy rose and got stronger.
Furthermore, the Mountain they were on during the battle with the General was quite frightening. "The clouds swirled down over top the mountain, covering the peak, but I could still see the Goddess under the weight of the sky. Her skin was paler, and her eyes had gone faint as the darkness surrounded her." I can see the rocks forming out of the ground and the darkness of cave almost. The Goddess is Artemis "Her silver glow fading in and out as the sky crushes her body." The light from Artemis just sets it up for an intense battle scene between Atlas (the General Titan) and Zoe Nightshade fighting to the death "Atlas swung Zoe to the dark wall of rock where her body lay motionless."
The Titans Curse is an action packed thriller with challenging scenes and important life long lessons on friendships and betrayals. This book is a really great read, but if you haven't read the first two I definitely recommend reading The Lightning Thief and The Sea of Monsters in that order, so it would make more sense. This is at the top of my recommendation list and if you do read The Titans Curse I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
