great story, bad/wrong narrator

sorry but this time they really did choose the wrong narrator. why does he always start whispering when the characters are supposed to scream? it's really exhausting to listen to this audiobook, while I loved reading every page of the actual book.

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A beautiful story, but the Audiobook has flaws

Now that I'm through with the book and had some time to think about it, I decided to add to my former review. The points of my old review still stand, so I kept it untouched at the end.

Story: the story is a masterpiece about healthy relationships and mental health. It's a must read.
Structure: I complained about the structure in my old review, and that still stands. However, the structural problems go away at the halfpoint of the book and I guess reading the book would leave you less confused then hearing it, which brings me to...

The Narrator.
Beckels has a really nice voice, that is pleasant to listen to. However, it would've been a lot better if there would've been some tonal differences about the different parts of the first half, to better differentiate between past, present and future.
My biggest gripe however made itself clear towards the end of the book.
I get that narrators don't want to scream into the ears of their listeners, but please: opt out for a stronger, deeper voice, instead of WHISPERING. It sucks all emotion and inversion out of you, when everything shouted is a hold back whisper.

Old Review:
Let me put the most important things first:
The story is great. The narrator is great. The lovestory between Nico and Will is amazing, well written and absolute sweet.
And of course, greek mythology is all around.

So why just 3 stars?
Maybe this is a problem only I have, but I could barely follow the story itself due to it's structure.
The story bounces along between several strands of time.
The Present is interupted by short snippets in the Future and narrations from the Past. And while each of these timeframes are building a nice story, the structure jumps between these parts in a way that makes me struggle to follow the plot.
Again, this might be a personal issue, one I couldn't get past in other books as well (f.e. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), but doesn't seem to bother other readers.
For me, it sadly makes the story so hard to follow, that my enjoyment suffered down to 3 stars.
But if you don't have an issue with this, this book won't let you down!

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4 Leute fanden das hilfreich

Good

This Book has good made LGBTQ content and i was suprised ( even though its from Rick Riordan)
My expectations where high and ich wasn't let down

Good Book

Have Fun hearing it

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3 Leute fanden das hilfreich

One of the best LGBTQ Storys I EVER listened to

If you are gay, queer or just love boys love than this is your stuff. It really shows the up and downsides of being with a person who is very different from yourself.
This is also from the Percy Jackson fandom so my expectations where quite high and I wasn't disappointment.
Enjoy the cheese and start hearing! XD
Have an awesome day
~ Mino

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3 Leute fanden das hilfreich

The Narrative was sooo good and the voice very comforting. I liked the Story too, 'cause Will and Nico are just sooooo cute

Well, sometimes, the Story was a little too dark and it drained me. But it's the Underworld and Tartarus, so I could have excepted that.

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Love Nico and Will

I absolutely love how soft Nico and Will are in this. The cocoa puffs are the cutest. The story wasn‘t what I expected, but I throughly enjoyed it.

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Wer Percy Jackson liebt sollte das hier hören

Eine teilweise sehr herzzerreißende Geschichte über Freundschaft und Liebe, aber auch mentale Gesundheit natürlich vor der Kulisse der griechischen Mythologie.
Sehr empfehlenswert.

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6 Leute fanden das hilfreich

Love it Love it Love it

The writing is so beautiful like always, but the themes and moods are darker and deeper. The new sites we see in our beloved Charakters are amazing and heartwarming. The journey the boys have to go through brings up topics that are more adult and show a type of Charakter development that we haven’t seen in the more teenage/ YA targeted books so far. The read is great for us who grew up with the other books and are now a little bit older and ready for plots that are a little harsher. I really loved it!

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5 Leute fanden das hilfreich

Sadly not even closely as good as other P.J. Books

Unfortunately, the story is not as well written as the other works from the Percy Jackson universe. At one point, I wasn't even sure what the goal of Nico and Will's quest was again, because it kept getting lost in digressions about feelings, relationships and other things. Whereby Nico always had to be as edgy as possible. And there we have the core of my criticism: it really feels like the main focus of the book is not to tell an adventure, but a love story of two young men. Everything, absolutely everything in this book feels like it just has to be gay. The whole LGBTQ+ thing is so over-represented in this book and is shoved in your face so forcefully that it just feels pushed.

SPOILER: I mean they meet Gerion, who you first met in the fourth Percy Jackson installment, and OF COURSE he's gay now too! The encounter barely advances the plot at all, but of course it's important to note that even characters from ancient mythology are now also LGBTQ+.

All in all, it feels like Riordan just wanted to cram as much gay into a book as possible and the actual plot was incidental. Even though I'm sure I'll be accused of homophobia (be my guest), I have to say that as someone who has very little to do with it and who simply isn't interested in the topic, I'm very disappointed. I really have nothing against gay characters as such, otherwise Rick Riordan would certainly not be my favorite author, but when the story suffers from it I find it just too much!

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