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A review by fantasynovel
The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan
4.0
The Deus ex Machina of Summer was pretty good! Except for the fact that Magnus won every fight by letting go of his amazing talking sword which would then swoop around and kill everyone. Don't worry, though, it's not a total deus ex machina bc whenever Magnus picked it up again, he felt all the exhaustion of what it had done!!! Ugh. That's not a real consequence for magic. It's just boring and led to Magnus passing out a lot and talking to Loki.
This book really wasn't that bad, though. Magnus's powers being peace powers was a nice change. And Samirah al-Abbas was actually amazing. She flies, she shape-shifts, she has a magical hijab, she fights with AXES. Axes are immediately impressive and much cooler than swords that fight for themselves. The "villains" like Gunilla were fleshed out and sympathetic. And it was really fun to see Annabeth outside of Perciville.
There also weren't any major love subplots, although: does anyone else ship Blitz and Hearth? I was getting major vibes from them. Like, MAJOR vibes. And Samirah did have that cute scene with Amir at the food court.
I guess I really missed reading Rick Riordan. Maybe this year I'll go back and read all of his books. That might be fun.
This book really wasn't that bad, though. Magnus's powers being peace powers was a nice change. And Samirah al-Abbas was actually amazing. She flies, she shape-shifts, she has a magical hijab, she fights with AXES. Axes are immediately impressive and much cooler than swords that fight for themselves. The "villains" like Gunilla were fleshed out and sympathetic. And it was really fun to see Annabeth outside of Perciville.
There also weren't any major love subplots, although: does anyone else ship Blitz and Hearth? I was getting major vibes from them. Like, MAJOR vibes. And Samirah did have that cute scene with Amir at the food court.
I guess I really missed reading Rick Riordan. Maybe this year I'll go back and read all of his books. That might be fun.