#THE TOWER OF NERO SERIES#

In this last book, Riordan brings his readers back to familiar territory as Apollo and Meg travel to Camp Half Blood to team up with old friends. Her friendship with Luguselwa also delves into how she grew up, but it’s her current friendships that allowed her to open up and accept help without suspicion. While she’s still fun, and more prone to fight rather than ask questions, there’s an underlying sadness in her the closer she gets to confronting Nero. Meg has also changed over the series, she’s matured far more than any 12 year-old ever should in that amount of time. Over the course of the six months they’ve been together, their relationship has deepened past her ordering him around and sarcastic bickering between the two, to a deep bond. The closer the book moves to the climax, the more Apollo looks back on his life and sees it in a new perspective, vowing to be better as a god this time around.

He’s more cautious, respectful, and cares deeply for his friends and children. This reflection on his own actions and how they’ve affected the people around him is constant through the book. Where in the first book, he turned up on Sally Jackson’s doorstep without a second thought, he’s reluctant to bring trouble to their door after all that’s happened.

#THE TOWER OF NERO SERIES#

This is the only major battle in the series to be broadcast on mortal television, albeit not directly shown.This is where Apollo’s emotional maturity, and character development truly comes to light.

Apollo revokes Nero's immortality and Nero dies with the last of his essence being absorbed by Python.Īfter the battle, Apollo's Cabin works to heal those on both sides. The god-emperor attacks them and he and Apollo fight over the fasces.

However, the trogs disable the system and moments later Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Luguselwa, and Screech-Bling arrive with Nero's fasces and demand his surrender. Just then Nero finds the remote for the gas. The son of Hades informs them that the campers know about the gas, but won't leave without them. Just then Nico di Angelo uses a dead Taurus Sylvestre to break down the door as fighting starts up in the throne room. Soon Meg unleashes her power and puts out the fires and strengthens the trees, she goes over the Apollo before standing up to Nero.

He has a group of dryads attack Apollo as he burns one to get the others to cooperate. When Apollo arrives he mocks the mortal god by saying he only brings destruction where he goes and names some of the people and monsters who died around him. When Apollo learns of this he begs Nero not to do it and the god-emperor gives him fifteen minutes to come to him or else he gasses the tower. However, Nero has a backup plan in place, a system to pump deadly Sassanid Gas into every floor below the throne room. The campers attack the tower as the trogs sabotage the filtration system to keep the Greek Fire from flooding the sewers. When they learn that Nero plans to burn down New York City, the demigods of Camp Half-Blood storm his tower in coordination with the troglodytes. The Battle of Nero's Tower is the final battle in the Great Imperial War.

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