The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus Book 3) Rick Riordan Paperback – 1 January 2013

Excellent quality.

The books are original and are in good condition. Everyone should buy this book !

Good book

I was waiting for the book to be delivered eagerly. Could not control my excitement to receive the delivery and start reading... Here is my take on this wonderful book-Wisdom’s daughter walks alone,The Mark of Athena burns through Rome;Twins snuff out angel’s breath,Who holds the key to endless death;Giants’ bane stands gold and pale,Won through pain from a woven jail.AT LAST!! Percy and Annabeth!!! Awesome cover page, as usual, although I’m a bit confused about it. I’m sure that the guy in the red/orange/darkish-pink shirt is Percy but the one in the purple Camp Jupiter shirt is the real mystery, to me. That might be Jason but I’m pretty sure Jason has blonde hair. Anyway, awesome and very gripping storyline. Lots of twists and turns. That last Cliff-hanger though: very unexpected.Annabeth finds and locates Percy in another demigod training camp called Camp Jupiter. Leo builds a flying warship, the Argo II to fly to the Roman-based camp to get Percy and two more Roman demigods, Frank and Hazel, to start the quest for the Second Great Prophecy or the Prophecy of Seven, as the Romans call it. A twist of unexpected events forces the group of demigods to retreat from Camp Jupiter to save their lives. They head to the Mare Nostrum/the Ancient Lands, which is forbidden to all Roman demigods as the place is swarming with monsters, crazy tourists and what-not. The demigods fight a couple of dozens of monsters and a pirate/Percy’s brother. They are destined to fight the twin giants Ephialtes/the BIG F and Otis, the anti-Dionysus, who have Nico as their hostage and have threatened to destroy Rome on The Kaleds of July.As Hera warned Percy (in the last book) Annabeth has a more dangerous task ahead of her. She must face her mother’s greatest enemy and find the Athena Parthenon to make peace between the Greeks and the Romans .The rest of the story is based on how they face their tasks and save Rome.Thanks amazon for prompt delivery and awesome book mark.-- Kaviya .K

This book is just beautiful, heartbreaking and shocking..... First of all I would like to mention that this is my favourite book in the series so far. From Annabeth's being in the book to the heart stomping cliffhanger in the end is enough to get you hooked until you finish it. I gotta admit that the first two books were not my all time faves especially the first one (the lost hero) but this book was just incredible. I laughed, I cried and seemed to go on the journey together with the characters just the experience that I had with the og Percy Jackson books. Annabeth's appearance was just the very thing that this series neede and we got a lot of it. From the start I was just screaming'PERCABETH' and it was wonderful.Nico's dramatic entry after we got to know what could have happened to him in the last book I was worried but of course his entry was marvelous. The cliffhanger at the end was just too much to handle and now I can faithfully say that this was the worst cliffhanger that anyone can ever deserve. Overall a solid read and 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 book in my opinion...PS: the cover is so good omg...

Excellent quality, lightweight

This is the best book in the heroes of Olympus series. It is even better than the Percy Jackson series. There are many plots and twists and turns. The cliffhanger in the end is extremely unexpected. It's a must read book.

You shall go west, and face the god who has turned,You shall find what was stolen, and see it safely returned,You shall be betrayed by one who calls you a friend,And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end.You shall sail the iron ship with warriors of bone,You shall find what you seek and make it your own,But despair for your life entombed within stone,And fail without friends, to fly home alone.Five shall go west to the goddess in chains,One shall be lost in the land without rain,The bane of Olympus shows the trail,Campers and Hunters combined prevail,The Titan's curse must one withstand,And one shall perish by a parent's hand.You shall delve in the darkness of the endless maze,The dead, the traitor, and the lost one raise.You shall rise or fall by the ghost king's hand,The Child of Athena's final stand.Destroy with a hero's final breath,And lose a love to worse than death.Child of Lightning, beware the earth,The giants' revenge the seven shall birth,The forge and dove shall break the cage,And death unleash, through Hera's rage."Go to Alaska.Find Thanatos and free him.Come back by sundown on June twenty-fourth or die.""To the north, beyond the gods, lies the legion's crown.Falling from ice, the son of Neptune shall drown.""Wisdom's daughter walks alone,The Mark of Athena burns through Rome.Twins snuff out the angel's breath,Who holds the key to endless death.Giants' bane stands gold and pale,Won through pain from a woven jail."A Half-Blood of the eldest gods,Shall reach sixteen against all oddsAnd see the world in endless sleepThe hero's soul, cursed blade shall reapA single choice shall end his daysOlympus to preserve or razeSeven half-bloods shall answer the call.To storm or fire, the world must fall.An oath to keep with a final breath,And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.