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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess was such a great read! I loved all the adventures Percy, Annabeth, and Grover went on throughout this book. It was a super cozy read, but I’ll save all my thoughts for the end of this post.
If you need a recap of the book, check out my full chapter-by-chapter summary below!
*Also, MAJOR spoilers ahead obvi, so if you haven’t read the book yet, continue on with caution!*
Chapter One
The book starts off with Percy sleeping in English class at his alternative high school, which turns out to be the only school that will let him graduate in time (thanks to Hara and the events of The Heroes of Olympus series causing him to miss his whole junior year) and go to college with Annabeth. He’s woken up by being told that his aunt is in the principal’s office and is here to see him. This sets alarm bells off in Percy’s head because he has no human aunts, which means that this is going to be some mythical world business.
Percy’s aunt is The Tripple Goddess, AKA Hecate, the Goddess of Magic. Hecate offers Percy a quest (which he needs two more of to get into New Rome College). The quest is “pet sitting” Hecate’s hellhound and polecat during Halloween week.
Chapter Two
Grover and Percy are at “The Cracked Tea Pot,” the cafe where Sally Jackson is working on writing her book, and Percy, being a good kid (there’s a The Lightning Thief Musical reference for ya) wants to fill his mom in on his quest before meeting Hecate and her pets. Overall, Sally is pretty chill about the whole thing.
However, when Percy tells her that the address Hecate gave them is in Gramercy Park, Sally reacts very coy, leaving Percy wondering what exactly it is about Gramercy Park that made his mom have such a reaction.
Chapter Three
Percy finds Annabeth at the library of her school, SODNYC (The School of Design, New York City). Annabeth is studying with her friends, and Percy feels a bit weird about them, especially Hannah, who seems to treat Percy as if he isn’t good enough for Annabeth. And I’m like, Hannah, have you read any Percabeth fanfic…
Annabeth and Percy leave the circle of friends when Percy says he needs help on some homework, but Annabeth immediately knows that this is quest-related help. Annabeth is excited about this quest for Hecate because she wants to throw a Halloween party and design the perfect haunted house while they pet sit.
Also, I love this part about Percy and Annabeth throwing a party and rebelling and just having some classic teenage fun!
Chapter Four
The trio grabs takeout and heads to Gramercy Park to find Hecate’s mansion. The mansion is classic creEeEpy and is going to be perfect for Annabeth’s party. When they knock on the door, they are met by a conundrum of three door knockers: a lion, a horse, and a dog. That’s not the crazy part. The crazy part is they also talk!
Before they decide which door knocker to pick, the door is opened by a giant hellhound who thinks Percy smells like salmon (which she asks Grover, who, duh, can talk to animals). Once they enter the house, they find the polecat, who’s name is Gale and who also has a flatulence problem. Hecate gives the three a tour of the house, but it costs them three drachmas.
Chapter Five
Hecate shows the three around the house, letting them know which areas are off limit. Also, that despite the eels insistence that they eat seven times a day and that they can eat the polecat, they should actually only be fed once a day.
Hecate did however forget that Percy and co. would have some mortal needs, like a place to sleep and a place to go to the bathroom. So, she tells them they can camp in the living room and creates some new bathrooms with a little magic.
She tells them they can use the kitchen to make food, but her concoctions are OFF limits. She also tells them they should move the strawberry milkshake she is working on from the ice cream maker to the freezer the next morning but explicitly says not to taste it.
Subtle foreshadowing…I mean Grover is literally shaking and drooling from just smelling it…
Chapter Six
They get the lowdown on how to take care of each of her animals, and there are a lot of rules, and they are very specific. Hecuba has giant poop bags and giant treats and needs two walks a day, and these are not ordinary walks: they are like multiple states worth of traveling type walks.
Gale the polecat has very specific care instructions, and it’s all very overwhelming to Percy, but he’s mostly taken aback by the raw chicken carcass that Gale gets twice a day that she plays with a bit before they need to clean it up.
Hecate leaves behind her torches, which are her symbol of power but tells them to only use them in case of an emergency. Percy can’t imagine what they would possibly need then for, but he keeps this to himself because he has already tried Hecate’s patience enough for one day.
Chapter Seven
Hecate has left, and it is the first night of pet-sitting. After feeding the pets, Hecuba and Gale both want walks, and as soon as they are all leashed up and ready to go, the two take off and start dragging Annabeth and Grover down the streets of New York.
When they get back from the walk, Percy thinks he sees a ghost of a kid with glasses on a bike, but they don’t focus on it too much because it is time for the trio to eat their own dinner.
When they go to use the bathroom, they find that there are many bathrooms and none of them really are quite functional and pretty wild. Toilets on the ceiling, showers that only have ice water, and many other things that prove Hecate is not human.
Chapter Eight
It’s the next day, and the three have made a plan to walk the two pets twice a day. Percy is excited about spending time with Grover and Annabeth and hopeful about getting through this pet-sitting gig through Halloween.
Percy leaves for school, but before he leaves, he reminds Grover to move the strawberry milkshake to the freezer and to NOT eat it…
Percy is waiting out front of his school for Grover and Annabeth to meet him at the school for their pet walk schedule, but they don’t show up on time. Percy starts getting very nervous that something has happened to delay them. After waiting an hour, Percy leaves a message that he went to Gramercy in case they show up and tries to intercept them on the way back to Hecate’s home.
Annabeth and Percy run into each other in front of the mansion. Both having been ghosted by Grover look up at Hecate’s home to see that it has turned into a disaster zone with a scent of strawberry milkshake.
Chapter Nine
They go into the house, and the inside is just as bad as the outside. There are splotches of a mystery red liquid on the walls, and Percy’s scared that it’s blood, but of course it’s just strawberry.
They go into the kitchen to find a mess of strawberry milkshake liquid and a giant goat fur mountain that’s snoring so loud it’s shakes the whole kitchen. Once Percy looks a little closer, he and Annabeth realize that it’s not actually mountain or a monster, but a giant version of Grover!
They wake Grover up, and he starts crying about how he couldn’t resist the milkshake and how the pets have escaped. Grover shrinks back to his normal size, and Percy is honestly pretty pissed at Grover, but he’s trying his best to hide it.
Chapter Ten
Percy uses his whistle from Leo to call Mrs. O’Leary to help find Hecuba. Mrs. O’Leary is feeling jealous about Percy spending time with other Hellhounds, but after Percy explains that Hecate might kill himself, Annabeth, and Grover if they don’t find the missing Hellhound, she agrees to help Percy and starts running down the streets of New York.
Percy’s dog leads him to an alley where she starts sniffing a pile of trash, and there Percy finds a hellpuppy. Percy totally doesn’t cry or anything when he sees the little hellhound named “Nope” (because he keeps saying nope but he is actually barking). Mrs. O’Leary is exhausted from shadow travel, so she heads back to her shadows to sleep and Percy takes the injured puppy back to Hecate’s house.
Chapter Eleven
Percy shows off Nope to Grover and Annabeth, and he is so excited to look around the house and pee on the demigods.
They are still missing Hecuba and Gale AND the house is a mess. The three friends start to plan how they are going to fix this mess AND plan a party AND not get killed by Hecate for loosing her pets.
They plan to look for the pets the next night (because the pets are nocturnal), and Grover will clean while they are at school.
Chapter Twelve
At school, Percy plans to ask his history teacher what she knows about Hecuba Queen of Troy (now Hecate’s dog), but when he gets to his classroom, instead of his teacher, he finds Chiron dressed as Mr. Brunner subbing for the class.
Percy catches Chrion up on what’s been going on with the pet sitting for Hecate. Chiron reminds Percy of Hecuba’s past. When she was Queen of Troy and the Greeks took over her city and killed all her children, she was so distraught that she threw herself into the sea. Hecate took pity on her and saved her from dying by turning her into a hellhound.
Chiron says that Hecuba would likely find Greek mortals to haunt and that Astoria might be a good place to start. He also suggests that Nope might call upon her motherly instincts, giving Percy a good idea of how to start looking for the lost dog.
Chapter Thirteen
After school, Hecate checks in with Percy while he’s taking the subway back to Gramercy Park. He’s able to avoid letting her know how bad pet sitting is going (and by that, I do mean that they lost both her pets), and she leaves him with candy corn and confirmation that she will be returning the morning after Halloween.
When he gets back to the house, he is met by Grover, Annabeth, and their new puppy, Nope. While Annabeth was at school, she looked up Hecuba but didn’t learn anything more than what Chiron told Percy. Percy tells his friends that he’s worried that Hecate is setting them up to fail, with the torches (he learned from Chiron that they will summon ghosts that do Hecate’s bidding and will be extra powerful on Halloween), Room of Dangerous Knowledge, and the smoothie (which we already know went badly…).
The three of them take Nope, chew toys, and treats and head to Queens to look for Hecuba.
Chapter Fourteen
On the way to Astoria, the trio finds Athens Square, a park with a statue of Athena, Greek Columns, and a dais. The dais is covered in a mysterious black ink-like substance, leading Percy to believe Hecuba has been shadow-traveling in this park.
Across the street, they see Hecuba on top of a kebab restaurant called Sal’s Souvlaki, and inside dead Trojans. The soldiers are attacking mortals (though the mortals only see giant rats because of the mist, duh).
They start fighting the ghost soldiers that Hecuba summoned, and while Percy is fighting one he gets touched by a ghost and enters a fever dream.
Percy sees a glimpse of Hecuba’s pain and the thousands of years of grief over mourning her dead children. Percy explains this to Annabeth and Grover and tells them that he thinks Hecuba isn’t trying to hurt anyone but that she just wants people to feel the pain that she is feeling.
Chapter Fifteen
They keep chasing Hecuba and the ghost Trojan soldiers who have moved from Sal’s Souvlaki to Papou’s Pastries. Apparently, Hecuba is trying to destroy every restaurant in Queens…
After Percy and his friends destroy the soldiers, they start to climb to the roof of Papou’s Pastries, where they find a very sad Hellhound.
They try to show Hecuba Nope to tap into her maternal instincts. Once Hecuba seems intrigued by Nope, Annabeth brings the puppy close to her to get to know him. It’s going well, so Annabeth hands the puppy back to Percy, and Percy gets close enough to put Hecuba’s leash back on. Realizing what Percy is doing, Hecuba get’s upset all over again and drags Percy by the leash into the shadow world.
Chapter Sixteen
Percy is holding on to Nope, being dragged though the shadow world, and though he has shadow traveled before, this is much worse…
They arrive at a German nightclub, but Hecuba doesn’t like the destination, so they go right back to shadow travel, landing in and out of several different locations until their final destination, Turkey, though Hecuba remembers it as Troy.
Percy takes the leash off as a peace offering and sits next to her. He tells her about the baby Sally is expecting and the fear of what the world could do to his new sibling, and also how he once lost his mom—confiding in her about his own pain and loss. Percy tells her that she has a family in Hecate and Gale and with this new puppy. When he is done talking, Hecuba nuzzles Nope and they, without a leash, shadow travel back to her home.
Chapter Seventeen
Once Percy wakes up, he fills Grover and Annabeth in on the previous night’s adventures in Turkey with Hecuba. Percy is a little stressed because their party is supposed to be tonight and they will have to cancel if they can’t find Gale.
Grover and Percy are taking the day to find Gale because Annabeth has to go to school. Percy is very excited to cut a day of school even if it involves looking for the farty polecat, Gale.
Annabeth also left notes for Percy and Grover about Gale’s history in the Room of Dangerous Knowledge. Gale was once a mortal witch and Hecate got mad at her so she turned her into a polecat, but then felt bad so she kept her as a pet.
A shiny object catches Percy’s eye on one of the shelves, and he finds a plaque that says “What Could Have Been” and a bunch of glasses. One of the pairs looks exactly like the pair worn by the ghost kid he saw a few nights before. The glasses are engraved with the initials SEJ, and Percy is spooked because he knows those initials.
Percy tries to push past his unease as he and Grover are off on their quest to find Gale. Grover says he has to ground himself before they can start, so they go to the park, and he proceeds to dig himself into the grass to “prepare for the squirrels”.
Percy is taken aback when a bunch of squirrels, one rat, and the trees around them in the park start surrounding Grover, and he disappears into a tidal wave of nature. Right as Percy is going to pull Grover out, the animals and foliage pull back, revealing a woozy Grover who is now several feet into the ground.
Grover clearly isn’t feeling very well but persists on trekking on. He tells Percy that he is able to “ground himself,” which is powerful magic that connects him with the surrounding nature. From this, he learns that there are very few polecats in New York and that the last one that was spotted was seen on Lafayette Street.
As they are walking there, Percy has to catch a stumbling Grover, and he insists on making him sit for a second and also tell him what’s going on. Grover admits that the grounding magic is pretty rare and comes at a high cost, with the possibility of him dissolving into nothing.
Chapter Eighteen
Percy is totally freaked out about the possibility of Grover dissolving. Grover has been feeling guilty about messing up at Hecate’s, and also feeling like he’s going to be left behind by Percy and Annabeth when they go off to college.
Grover admits that maybe he drank the strawberry potion because he’s scared about Percy really leaving him for New Rome. Percy assures him that he and Grover are still going to be just as close even if they are living on different coasts. This reminds Grover that the squirrels told him that “the polecat was last seen with four spirits from beyond the coast.”
The two decide that this must have something to do with water spirits and that somehow, naiads must be involved.
As Percy and Grover walk through Nolita, they are overwhelmed by all the perfume shops on the street. Percy thinks that Gale is probably hiding here to mask her farts. They see a shop called AEAEA with a lot of Greek decor and also a naiad who looks like she wants to kill Percy working behind the counter.
Chapter Nineteen
The naiad marches out of the store and approaches Percy, telling him he cannot enter the store and also reminding him of how they already know each other. The naiad is Filomena and is from the island Aeaea. Percy can’t remember her, but in a fit, Filomena throws the potions she is carrying at the feet of Percy. However, Percy is able to blast the potion back at the naiad, and when he exclaims “Aeaea!” Filomena vaporizes.
Percy and Grover go into the store, but the only person in the store is a green-haired employee who wants to go on his lunch break. He tells them about the new product, Miracle, that Filomena has launched on the same day that Gale ran away. The employee tells the two that Filomena has a serious competitor store that she hates and gives them the business card for “FANCY WATER.” Percy thanks him and lets him know that he’s probably safe to lock up shop for the day, considering he did vaporize his boss…
Chapter Twenty
Grover and Percy go to Fancy Water, and Grover talks to the naiad, Silbe, saying he wants to buy a gift for his girlfriend, Juniper. Grover asks if they have Miracle, and Silbe says they don’t sell that crappy potion, but she does have her own new product, Spellbound.
Percy asks how it is made, which leads Silbe to remember who Percy is. She sprays him with the potion, paralyzing him.
Chapter Twenty-One
Spellbound turns out to be a potion that paralyzes demigods. Silbe reveals that Gale is her and her sisters new servant.
Grover is able to distract Silbe while Percy slowly starts to regain his mobility. Once he can move, he grabs the Spellbound bottle and sprays Silbe. They can’t find Gale, but they do find a card for a third store, Scents Forever, owned by Daedra and Phaedra. Annabeth enters the shop and asks for an explanation about what the two boys have been up to.
Chapter Twenty-Two
Annabeth reminds Percy about how he knows the naiads and the events of The Sea of Monsters. Percy couldn’t remember the Aeaea because when they were there, everyone referred to it as Circe’s Island. Percy got turned into a guinea pig at C.C.’s Spa & Resort. Annabeth and Percy defeated Circe, and it led to the pirates (who had been turned into guinea pigs) burning down the spa.
The trio gets Halloween costumes as disguises from the naiads. Annabeth leads the way into Scents Forever and demands to see the manager. While they wait for the management, the find a display with boxes labeled “Gale, By Scents Forever.”
Daedra and Phaedra come out and recognize Annabeth, but she is prepared!
Chapter Twenty-Three
Annabeth goes full Karen on them. She tricks them by calling them out for abandoning Circe and tells them that she has even better magical training than them, holding up the keys to Hecate’s house and implying that she works for Hecate.
Annabeth tells them that they are going to be in trouble for stealing Gale, and though the twins insist that Gale came willingly to them, Annabeth still manages to convince them to take them to see the polecat.
They go into the work room, where they find Gale on a gold chain being strung by animatronic bees. Gale clearly is not here willingly but the twins figure out that Annabeth is bluffing and that they lost Gale. The twin naiads tell them that they are going to turn them into Hecate to get in the good graces of the goddess.
Chapter Twenty-Four
The naiads throw a potion at the feet of the demigods, but with it being water-based, Percy’s able to use his powers to make the potion go on the Phaedra’s feet instead. A fight breaks out between the demigods and the naiads while Grover goes to rescue Gale.
Daedra drinks a potion that turns her into a seven-foot-tall demon bear, and Grover gets stung by a bunch of bees while getting Gale’s chain removed from the wall. Percy helps Grover take down the bees while Gale gets to safety (and is also completely unhelpful).
The twins both go after Annabeth, and as soon as Grover and Percy are able to get Gale to safety, Phaedra drinks a potion called Beast Breath and breaths a cloud of white gas on our three heroes.
Chapter Twenty-Five
Before the effects of the gas take place, the three of them are able to knock down the twins. The gas kicks in, Annabeth turns part owl, Percy turns part octopus, and Grover turns into a human…
Phaedra tells them that there is no cure for Beast Breath and also that the building is going to blow up! Percy tells his friends to get out of the building safely and goes to talk to Gale.
Chapter Twenty-Six
Percy tries to level with Gale by telling her that he knows Hecate doesn’t appreciate how powerful Gale is and that he too has underestimated her talents the last couple days.
Percy tells Gale that he will free her, and if she helps him with the potion to reverse Beast Breath, if she wants, she can become human again. He also tells her that if she returns with them, he will tell Hecate to treat Gale better.
As they start to work on the potion, he’s able to sense a bit of Gale’s past. He feels her pain from when she had to flee for her life when her home city was afraid of her after she created a potion to bring a girl back to life. She is met by Hecate at a crossroads and is given the choice of death or living in eternal suffering with her powers but no mortal body.
Hecate wasn’t jealous, but was being empathetic towards her. Hecate didn’t think that Gale could make it on her magical talents. She knew how the world felt about witches and didn’t think that a human could succeed when herself, a goddess, had failed.
Percy is brought to tears by this vision, and he breaks the chain around Gale’s neck. He tells her that he believes in her, and that if she wants to be free, she should go. Gale thinks Percy is a little weird but is touched by this, so she helps Percy make the potion to cure Beast Breath.
The building collapses, and the twins are pissed that Percy had destroyed their home/work again, but the demigods let them live and run off with their polecat!
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Once in a safe distance away from the ruins of Scents Forever, the three stop to take the potion created by Gale and Percy. When Percy looks at the grey concoction, he realizes that there is only enough for three. After Grover and Annabeth have taken two servings of the potion and returned to their normal selves, Percy offers the last bit to Gale, telling her that she deserves to be human again if she wants it.
Gale tells Percy (translated from Grover) that she wants to stay a polecat, but she appreciates that he kept his word. Percy takes the last bit of the potion and returns to his normal body!
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Both pets are back home, but they’re not fully in the clear because Hecate’s mansion is still a mess, and they still want to throw an epic Halloween party. Percy proposes to fix the house with magic and use Hecate’s torches to clean up. Even though Chiron warned them about using them, Annabeth is kinda on board.
Percy and Annabeth have to go to school the next day, so Grover will stay home with the pets (after Percy ensures him that he has their full trust even after the strawberry debacle). After getting ready for bed, Percy and Annabeth talk about everything that has been going on. Annabeth tells Percy that she doesn’t give him enough credit for how much he sees people and makes them feel valued.
They plan to use the torches the next day. Percy tells Annabeth that he thinks the problems with the mansion goes back further than just their pet sitting gig. He thinks that something went down with her magical school and that’s the root of the problems. He also wonders why she keeps her pets like prisoners, scared they will leave her. He also tells her about the SEJ engraved glasses and that he knows that SEJ stands for Sally Estelle Jackson…
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Percy finds his mom at her favorite tea shop and tells her about his house-sitting problems. He tells his mom that he knows the apparition of the child on the bike was her. Sally tells Percy that the glasses she wore were from her parents because she saw things that other people didn’t see, as she could see through the mist.
When Sally was little, Sally saw Hecate at her home and was surprised when Hecate used her magic to toss away Sally’s glasses. Hecate told her that there was nothing wrong with her vision. After that, Sally was for sure spooked but also was able to understand what she was seeing. Hecate scared Sally, so she never returned to Gramercy Park.
Percy asks his mom if the ghost of little Sally is a regret of her life not going in the direction of learning magic and becoming a witch, but Sally tells him that her life is just how she would want it to be and she has no regrets.
“My life is wonderful. You are wonderful. I think you’re seeing Hecate’s regrets. If anyone needs your help and understanding, it’s her.”
So, Percy leaves his mom with encouragement to help Hecate the best he can.
Back at school, Percy coaxes Eudora out of hiding and tells her what’s going on. Eudora is very scared of Hecate and tells him that part of why she’s scared is because not only did she recommend Percy for pet sitting (so if he fails, she’s doomed too), but she also was the one to recommend that Hecate open her magic school.
Eudora use to work at the school for magic, but the students started fighting amongst each other and taking sides, leading to a nasty end for the school.
Chapter Thirty
After school, Percy returns to Hecate’s house and is met by Annabeth, who’s in full planning mode for raising some undead help. They plan to go Saint Mark’s Church because not only is it a close by cemetery but it’s also the burial place of Peter Stuyvesant. Percy is hesitant about this, but Annabeth thinks it’s a solid plan because Stuyvesant was a part of the building of New York in the 1600s.
Gale has made a magical lotion that is supposed to keep the dead at bay. Percy tells his friends about his mom and Eudora’s past connections with the school, which makes them think that one of the problems with Hecate’s house is her unwillingness to let go of the past.
All lotioned up and ready to go raise some dead, the three with the pets head out to the cemetery.
Chapter Thirty-One
At the church, they find the grave of Petrus Stuyvesant, and Annabeth uses the torches. The ghost rises and Grover tells Percy that he use to go by Peg-Leg Pete. Percy and Grover both try to focus on the tasks they’re raising the ghosts to help with so that they don’t revolt against them. However, Percy and focusing is not a great combination.
Pete and his ghost friends are pissy and fighting the control of the torches. Though Annabeth is trying to hold herself together, the ghosts are not fully under her control…
Chapter Thirty-Two
Annabeth starts walking down the block leading the ghosts, but she’s starting to get weak. Annabeth is the only one who can direct the ghosts to rebuild the house, so Percy takes the torches the rest of the way to the mansion so Annabeth can save her strength.
They are half a block away, and Percy’s strength is wavering but he makes it to the gates of the mansion. The ghosts are getting restless so Annabeth takes one of the torches and commands them to fix the house.
They start rebuilding and cleaning with Stuyvesant working as an overseer. The house gets rebuilt, but once they try to release the ghosts, Percy is fresh out of strength and drops the torch.
Chapter Thirty-Three
The ghosts are set loose and start wreaking havoc and swarming the demigods. Annabeth is still holding her torch so the ghosts aren’t attacking the house, but her strength is also starting to fail. Gale instructs Grover to give Percy and Annabeth nectar which helps them regain some strength.
The ghosts keep attacking even though the torches are keeping them from harming Hecate’s house. The ghosts won’t go away because Stuyvesant wants to burn the witch’s house and destroy their “heretic soles” (he’s a little stuck in the 1600s way of thinking…).
The ghosts have taken form from nearby trash or stolen Halloween costumes as well as possessing nearby people. They begin to charge the house led by Peter Stuyvesant, who has taken the body of police officer on a horse with a jack-o-lantern face.
Peter Stuyvesant says that his mother must pay for her crimes, and they all go du fuh?! Peg-Leg Pete is a son of Hecate!
Percy then leads Grover and Hecate’s pets into battle.
Chapter Thirty-Four
Percy and co are struggling to fight the ghosts but not harm the host they have taken. Grover is able to use his panpipes to draw the human hosts away. As Percy starts to get overwhelmed in the fight, Hecate’s eels join the fight encased in their own water sheath. Percy is unsure if this is Hecate magic or Poseidon’s power but doesn’t really care cause help is help!
Percy decides to try to take Pete down in hopes that this will stop the rest of the ghosts. As Percy gets close enough to Peter to sword-fight him, the ghost is too strong for Percy’s current strength and manages to sweep Riptide away from him. The surrounding ghosts enclose Percy, and Stuyvesant’s horse rears up to land on Percy’s face.
Chapter Thirty-Five
Just in the nick of time, their demigod friends arrive for the Halloween party, and the music from the Delphi Strawberry Service van distracts the horse, giving Percy a chance to roll away.
The costumed demigods join the fight, but Pete is still causing trouble for Percy. Argus had come to the party, to so he uses his strength to grab the house Stuyvesant is riding, giving Percy the opening to run to Annabeth.
Annabeth tells Percy they need to cross the torches to end this, but she can’t do it by herself. Percy tells her that they are stronger together (cute!!), and she agrees to let him help. They are able to cross the torches, and the ghosts dissolve.
Chapter Thirty-Six
With the army of the dead taken care of, the Halloween party finally begins! Percy finds Annabeth upstairs, looking out at the park. Annabeth feels guilty that she almost got them all killed because of her pride. Percy tells Annabeth that even though the pet sitting is nearly done and the house is fixed, he still has more up his sleeve with Hecate and her magic school.
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Hecate returns home bright and early, waking the demigods and Grover up. They introduce the goddess to the hellpup, and she is very excited to meet him. Grover translates that Nope has decided to call Hecate “Triple Mom”.
Hecate is pleased by how happy her pets look, so she gives Percy his letter of recommendation. Before he leaves, he tells Hecate everything that happened while they pet-sat and also advocates for the needs of Hecuba and Gale. He tells her that they fixed the house but that she has a serious ghost and regret problem. Though Hecate is initially taken aback by Percy’s brashness with a goddess, because he found her a new puppy, she allows him a boon, and he tells her his idea.
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Back at school, Percy talks to his guidance counselor about the success of getting the letter of recommendation, and also how he convinced Hecate to reopen her magic school. Eudora is over the moon about the reopening of the school, and Percy tells her that Hecate is offering her the job of admissions director once she is done helping him get into college.
On the way home, Percy stops by the Cracked Tea Pot to catch up with his mom. He tells her about all his adventures, and Sally tells Percy how proud of him she is.
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Annabeth, Grover, and Juniper come over for dinner at the Jackson’s house, and it’s a wonderful night of family and love. The end!
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Wrath of the Triple Goddess – My Thoughts & Review
I really enjoyed this book!
I said this when I finished Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods, but these almost feel like cozy fantasy books compared to the other Camp Half-Blood books. These are super quick reads, and the stakes are pretty low all things considered.
I like how Riordan included Grover feeling worried about Percy moving on without him. I thought that was handled really well, and a lot of people who have grown up reading these books and characters can either relate to that phase of life when everyone starts branching out into adult life, or they themselves are approaching it. I loved the quote at the end at dinner when Juniper says “No matter where you go, your roots are where you’re planted” referring to the everyone that was at the table.
“We wouldn’t be leaving anything behind. We’d just be spreading out our branches.”
I think is a beautiful sentiment about growing up but not out growing your home and your friends!
The mythology in this was pretty fun as well, and I loved how in the Barnes & Noble edition of the book it included stories about the Witches of Greek Mythology as well.
This book was perfect for a fall read. Not only was it fantasy, but it also had a lot of fun Halloween and spooky elements to it. While these are definitely not my favorite books in the series, I really appreciate the way Rick Riordan is handling continuing the story but also staying true to the characters we love so much.
I am intrigued to see if there will be any New Rome books, or if after this college recommendation series, Rick will be done writing books that strictly follow Percy Jackson.
What did you think of this book? I am dying to know!
Happy reading x
-Paisley
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