Easily one of the most overrated YA novels, this book has an interesting synopsis leading to a seemingly unfinished book with many unnecessary add ins. This book seemed 2/3 finished and immensely rushed, like just as we were getting interesting we got cut off. So many problems got brushed over and we just moved on without explanation. Cath‘s romance got cringey towards the end. The end makes it not even worth the read.

"After all this time?"

"Always," said Snape.

"Harry, there is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe."-Dumbledore's Portrait

"Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is."