Alison Reads

In this third book in a projected series of five, half-god half-mortal Percy and his friends search for missing Aphrodite, whom they must rescue within one short week before the winter solstice and an important meeting of the gods on Mount Olympus. As good as the first two. Now we’ll have to wait until the […]

The second of a projected series of five, this is a delightfully imaginative book about Percy, a half-god, half-mortal boy of 13. When Camp Half-Blood is threatened by the treachery of one of its campers, Percy and his friends go on a quest to rescue Zeus’s thunderbolt and restore the balance of power among the […]

[Of course I read this in the first few days, but I’m behind in reviewing.] This was an entirely satisfying end to the series. My husband was insufferable for having correctly predicted Snape’s role. I liked the whole book and the ending, but thought the epilogue was unnecessary.

Originally published in 1978, this is a Hugo and Nebula award-winning science fiction book that I never got around to reading until now. It’s about a strong self-confident young woman, Snake, who along with her three special snakes is a Healer in a post-nuclear world. When her rare alien dreamsnake is killed, she tries to […]