The Trials of Apollo, Book Three: The Burning Maze

Jason was perfect. Now that Rick has slaughtered him, I am really sad.

Honestly I knew he was going to die from the start. Oh well, It’s better to just rip the band-Aid off but it still doesn’t hurt any less :( Also, poor Piper! I know that people hate on her, and that sometimes she just has some moments, but it’s still so hard to grieve for someone that was as close to you as Jason was to her. Also, to all the people complaining about Jason’s death: in Heroes of Olympus, everyone was complaining about how “nobody died” and “Rick is to attached to his characters, he’s never going to kill any of them off.” Please people, it’s extremely hard to write on book, much less multiple series.

What the actual Hades uncle Rick!!!! I loved Jason He was a hero that is true Now he’s dead. I’m currently on the floor listening to the musical soundtrack eating some dam delicious blue cookies and crying

Great book until Jason Grace’s unfortunate death!! C’mon Rick!!! Jason was awesome in the Heroes of Olympus series! And now he just..... dies?! I mean I get it... that’s the life of an author. You gotta make people die. But JASON?! ... I gave this 4 stars because other than the unfortunate death, the books are great! I read all the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus/Trials of Apollo books!!

Of all things you absolutely had to kill Jason. Why? Never do that AGAIN!! Otherwise the book was awesome.

This book is amazing! My favourite part is when the book mentions Hamilton!!!

Loved the book if you are looking at this book then you should go to the first book. If you love to read the trials of Apollo series are the best books for you!

The book was great but jason (character from past books) dies however the book was an amazing installment to the series

Horrible use of character death. I love a good tragic death and I love Rick Riordan’s books, but Jason’s unnecessary death was just garbage. He died a minor character. He survives an entire battle with Gaea, the entire freaking earth, in the last series and he comes back as an unimportant side character in this series to show up just once to die stupidly. He died for no reason at all. His death didn’t accomplish anything! I would be able to forgive Jason’s death if he died to permanently defeat an evil empower or resolve a major conflict, but no. He gets stabbed for nothing and it’s all over. The death prophecy was completely unnecessary. The plot would have been just fine if the death prophecy was omitted and Jason just went back to boarding school when the fight was over. He basically died for shock value, and didn’t even do that right. It wasn’t a sad, dramatic sacrifice. He gets stabbed in the back and everyone dips. That’s it. He’s gone. So basically, an important character died just for a quick plot gimmick. He survived tons crazy battles in previous books just to die in a minor duel to some dude named Booties. We never got to see him reunite with Leo or make peace with himself after breaking up with Piper or see Nico out and proud with Will. All of those good plot opportunities gone for a cheap character death.

I really like this book because it combines Roman mythology and Greek mythology. 😸