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Burning Maze (Trials of Apollo, the Book Three)
Burning Maze (Trials of Apollo, the Book Three) | Rick Riordan
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The formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos. In order to regain his place on Mount Olympus, Lester must restore five Oracles that have gone dark. But he has to achieve this impossible task without having any godly powers and while being duty-bound to a confounding young daughter of Demeter named Meg. Thanks a lot, Dad.With the help of some demigod friends, Lester managed to survive his first two trials, one at Camp Half-Blood, and one in Indianapolis, where Meg received the Dark Prophecy. The words she uttered while seated on the Throne of Memory revealed that an evil triumvirate of Roman emperors plans to attack Camp Jupiter. While Leo flies ahead on Festus to warn the Roman camp, Lester and Meg must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor--and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles--somewhere in the American Southwest. There is one glimmer of hope in the gloom-filled prophecy: The cloven guide alone the way does know. They will have a satyr companion, and Meg knows just who to call upon. . . .
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Jasonator
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Burning maze is the third instalment of Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series. As alluded to by the series title, Apollo -- a former Greek God who was whittled down to a “mortal teenager“ as punishment from Zeus -- embarks on a multitude of trials given to him by Zeus. In this story, Apollo is accompanied by Grover -- a satyr first appearing in the famous Percy Jackson novels -- and Meg -- a daughter of the goddess Demeter -- in his adventures -

Jasonator - through the Labyrinth. I the concept of the Labyrinth being “like a web of capillaries beneath the skin of the mortal world, connecting basements, sewers and forgotten tunnels around the globe“ is very interesting to me as it plays with the concept of time and space while creating an action packed adventure for Apollo and his friends. This book slightly explores the effects of climate change through the interactions of Meg and Grover as well. - 3y
Jasonator - through the Labyrinth. I the concept of the Labyrinth being “like a web of capillaries beneath the skin of the mortal world, connecting basements, sewers and forgotten tunnels around the globe“ is very interesting to me as it plays with the concept of time and space while creating an action packed adventure for Apollo and his friends. This book slightly explores the effects of climate change through the interactions of Meg and Grover as well. - 3y
Jasonator If you like books that talk about nature & fantasy, this book might fit the mold. With Meg being a daughter of Demeter and Grover being on his own quest with the nature spirits, their relations with each other brings an subtle yet fun view when talking about the global impact of nature through the Labyrinth. Despite the theme being darkness (The Dark Prophecy), Apollo's first person point of view adds humor to the story though his humility and wit 3y
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Lovelylottereader
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This book took me a while to get through but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I loved seeing characters from past books show up and overall found this a good book! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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But from now on I would be more than Lester. I would be more than an observer.
I would be Apollo.
I would remember.

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Sweetkokoro
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This book falls at 3.5⭐️ for me. Im still not loving the series as a whole, & maybe thats because I just never really cared for The Greek God Apollo or its just something about this series is just underwhelming. The first 200ish pages bored me to death and I had to really push myself to read it. Once the action picked up, it got better, Meg surprisingly didn‘t bother me in the one, and I did get misty eyed over Jason. But still it was just meh.

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SpotlightBookBlog
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I‘ve been on a reading slump lately, but this book was the cure! Rick Riordan‘s Writing is always so refreshing to return to. Even though Apollo is a different character compared to Percy and the Seven, he still brings in that air of familiarity that made me fall in love with Uncle Rick‘s works.

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