okay i finished trials of apollo spoilery reaction under the cut and then i might shut up about it for a while
the solangelo has killed me. i am lying here stone cold dead because uncle rick just had these two happy lil nugs constantly together and being painfully cute, like apollo was jealous cute, and while i’m kind of curious about their backstory and how they got together I DONT FUCKIN CARE THEY ARE TOGETHER AND THEYRE AGGRESSIVELY PAINFULLY HAPPY FUCK LIFE
as for the rest of the book, it was all typical uncle rick. Bigger and Badder villains. bad jokes. genuinely surprising plot twists. percy sass. i’m here for it.
i’m also here for him explicitly and repeatedly confirming how non-hetero Apollo is. i’m using the term bi for now because it’s relatively apt, but he consistently says “oh yes my two great loves Daphne and Hyakinthos” and “oh yes all the mortal men and women i have loved” and i am just so Here For It because haha joke’s on you mediocre white boy who picked this book up expecting hetero white boy mediocrity HE’S BISEXUAL FUCK YOU YOUR FAVE IS QUEER
I’M HERE FOR IT
the whole book was genuinely just regular Rick i have no real comments other than how aggressively happy i am there are the gay