Mark of Athena | By Rick Riordan | Climax

The climax is the most exciting part of the book, what you read for. The climax in my book came at the end. The quest that the 7 main characters have to go on is to defeat Gaea, mother earth, she wants to wipe out all of humanity and let her off springs roam the earth (giants, titans, etc.). One key element to defeat her is to find and retrieve the Athena Parthenos. Annabeth, one of the 7 main character, goes on a solo quest given to her by her mother to find the Athena Parthenos because the Romans tore that statue down and instead of keeping her as a war strategy goddess; they made her a goddess of crafts and wisdom. Athena was offended and that made Minerva, Athena's roman equivalent, a very bitter goddess as well. Athenians wanted revenge for that so Minerva or Athena would send a child of Athena to find the Athena Parthenos every couple of centuries.SPOILER ALERT: The next couple of sentences spoil the book, but that's the climax! Annabeth is the first of her brethren to succeed in the task of defeating Arachne and retrieving the Athena Parthenos. She has to outwit Arachne and make her weave her own trap, a giant Chinese handcuff inspired Frank Zhang, another of the 7 main characters. She manage to make Arachne think that there is a fault in her weaving and makes Arachne climb in the contraption and, obviously, gets her stuck. Then the other 6 of the crew crash through the roof of Arachne's underground hideout and drag the Athena Parthenos on board of the flying ship. And the very, very end is too much of a spoiler to tell you.
 An event leading up to the climax is the battle in which Percy and Jason (2 of the 7 chosen to go on the quest) have to fight Otis and Ephialtes (two giants how were created to destroy Dionysus) in the Colosseum, the real one that was restored by Dionysus to see whether or not Jason and Percy were worthy of his help.
 I finished reading the book.




KF