4.5 i THINK
it's really hard to decide wether this is a 5 or a 4.5 star book knowing this series just gets so much more insanely better with the next two books but i guess that's the curse of a reread.
but genuinely i had so much fun, the pacing of this book is so much better of the first one. yes is has some slow parts but it's almost unnoticable because everything is so fun.
i genuinely think all three main characters have such great stories in this book, percy's obviously being the most familiar, since we as a reader know what he's missing. i do think hazel is one of the strongest characters with probably the strongest backstory in the heroes of olympus series. everything that unfolds is just so good and (most) things click into place throughout the story.
imo the character arcs are incredibly earned (especially franks and hazels) and it doesn't feel unnatural at any point.
yeah just a really, really great book overall and already an insane stepup from book one.