Book Hype hosts Karen and Marama are joined by Kristen to discuss The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan!

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What we’ve been reading:
–Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan
–All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
–My True Love Gave To Me edited by Stephanie Perkins
–More Fool Me by Stephen Fry
–White Hot Kiss by Jennifer Armentrout
–Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Book Bites
-How do you feel about spinoff series?
-Kristen believes characters continue existing in a world, so she wants to read more.
-Marama thinks it’s on a case-by-case basis.
-Crossovers vs. spinoffs.
-Karen likes spinoffs.
-BUT it has to be something different.
-We really like the Bloodlines series as a spinoff.

The Blood of Olympus:
-Kristen recommends the audiobook!
-We loved seeing demigods and gods working together.
-Kristen loves Piper.
-Annabeth and Piper work well together.
-The found family theme is a great one.
-What did we think of Reyna?
-There were a lot of odd couples in this book.
-Do we want more Percy?
-How do we feel about Jason?
-Was there too much action?
-What do we think of the unresolved stories?
-And Nico’s resolution with Will?
-Gaea’s defeat was kinda underwhelming.
-Did we really think one of the main characters was going to die?
-Will we read Magnus and the Gods of Asgard?
-Rick Riordan has some other books coming up soon!
-And we totally forgot how funny these books were.

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