6 things you should do at the beach

 

1. Purchase some food, only to promptly get it stolen by a seagull

 

2. Sing a mix of lyrics at the top of your voice, partly for fun and partly to

scare away said seagull.

 

My playlist:

True Believer by Avicci (I wasn't always the brightest, until I learnt how to dance)

Best day of my life by American Authors (the sun was out till midnight)

This One's For You by David Guetta, Zara Larsson (hear our hearts beat together)

Shots by Imagine Dragons (oh I'm gonna mess this up, oh this is just my luck)

 

 

3. Do at least one cartwheel, preferably in the water so that when you fall over you only get wet instead of bruised.

 

4. Take approximately 72 photos, mainly doubles and all blurry.

 

5. Those 72 don't include all the failed selfies and attempts at photographing Mr Seagull, just so you can prove to everyone that this DID ACTUALLY happen.

 

6. Draw a heart in the sand, take a photo of it and send love to everyone in the world....

....except the seagull.

Millie

The Hidden Oracle

The usual spoiler alerts....

Ok so yes one half of me says Rick Riordan is pulling out the Percy Jackson thing, but the other half of me is fangirling all over this new edition to my bookshelf!

I liked Apollo's view on the human world in general and the references back to actual Greek Mythology mixed in with Modern references Rick Riordan thought Apollo might have done. Like his whole trouble over Daphne and Hyanthesis and his realisations about himself.
    Although I didn't like the Snapchat, Facebook, Hashtag bits. It felt like they were just dropped in to try and please a modern audience and didn't flow with the rest of the story.
So, Hi Rick, Please can you not put any references like that in the next one? I prefer your old style!

I found that the new characters aren't very likeable. They don't have much going on except Apollo's kids and Meg and I don't know about anyone else but I didn't particularly feel very attached to any of them. However I am still in love with all the old characters that made an appearance, especially Nico di Angelo and all his funny conversations with Will Solace and the few glimpses of Percy Jackson we saw. Sad I know but you have to love Apollo's reaction to his apartment, mum, food, ego....
    And Leo Valdez with his metal dragon and ex goddess is going to be in the next book with a major part I'm so excited I have lost the power of punctuation and grammar who cares anyway Leo's back yay

    Even though I am not too keen on the new characters, I love the whole new tri concept thing!
I have heard people say that it doesn't make sense and "wait, the whole Gaia thing was because of some past their time emperors?", but I think it wraps everything weird that ever happened in the world of Percy Jackson together nicely and awesomely and also opens up a hole in Rick Riordan world for him to write a whole bunch more amazing books!! *please, my whole career as a Percy Jackson fangirl would be over if he didn't and that would be tragic*.
   
Last of all I just feel that I should mention
        the haikus at the (5)
        beginning of each chapter (7)
        genius I know (5)
Sorry that was a really bad attempt at a haiku....

Millie x

Singing with my friend

Hi guys, 'sup. Jess(Fairydancer8) and I have got a quick little post with two music playlists for you today. Feel free to tell us what your favourite songs are too and we will do a follow up post later on!!

Millie

Favourite song at the moment: True Colours by Kesha and Zedd

Favourite song when we were little: Dancing Queen by ABBA

Feel good song: Superheroes by The Script

Crying song: Human by Christina Perri

Favourite song of all time: All is a very long time so I don't have a song yet....

 

Jess

Favourite song at the moment: Elastic Heart by Sia

Favourite song when we were little: Count on me by Bruno Mars or New York by Alicia Keys

Feel good song: Can't stop the feeling by Justin Timberlake

Crying song: Human by Christina Perri (As well!)

Favourite song of all time: Bridge over troubled water by Simon and Garfunkle

 

Millie and Jess