Covenant Series (Book 4)

Apollyon

Rating

 4+

Date Read

1/1/16 - 6/1/16

Age Group

15+

General Thoughts

Awesome book once again, I don't know how she does it! It's like each book is even better that the last! The storytelling, the characters, the relationships, Aiden & Alexandria...

"...But breaking Alex's connection to Seth isn't the only problem. There are a few pesky little loopholes in the whole an Apollyon can't be killed theory, and the only person who might know how to stop the destruction has been dead for centuries.

Finding their way past the barriers that guard the Underworld, searching for one soul among countless millions, and then somehow returning will be hard enough. Alex might be able to keep Seth from becoming the God Killer or she might become the God Killer herself."

Then again, at this point in the series, you've fallen so much in love with the characters there's no going back, no stopping before it's over. I guess that's when you call a series unputdownable, and that's the exact word everyone has been using for the Apollyon lately. It picks up right where the Elixir left off, with a possessed Alex that doesn't recognise her friends and wants to kill Aiden, and ends with everything in its place for a grande finale, for the war between Gods and half bloods is already in full swing, the Apollyons dancing a very dangerous dance in the middle of it all.

And that ending... 0.o Not a cliffhanger, exactly, but everything is surely left hanging. The war has had casualties and Alex's battle scars are going to be hard to heal, even if she survives the next book. We now know who the God behind the mess is and winning has just gotten very complicated. And the protagonists will never be the same after what they went through in Apollyon (managing to get out of under Seth's thumb, but almost killing each other in the process, traveling to the Underworld to find out more about the past, fighting with their own people - Sentinels, fighting with a God...).

Aiden!

But...

I know, I hate finding plotholes too. And I'm also very much confused as to how no one is talking about this one! Not that it changes anything major but it had me banging my head on the wall. Because Aiden is so very attentive and thoughtful and smart. How did he miss this?!

Spoilers Ahead

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So, a huge part of this book was Alex and Aiden going to the Underworld and learning that it is indeed possible to transfer the First's power to Alex. Solaris says so herself. And Aiden hears it with his own ears.

What he doesn't hear is what Solaris goes on to whisper to Alex: that means Alex will become the God Killer and will be able to take care of the God that made this mess... And then there's a big, 99% chance she'll be taken care of as well. After all, the existence of a God Killer is too big a risk. The Olympians CANNOT allow that.

So, my question: How does Aiden not realise that?! Why would Alex consider it as secret she's meant to keep so as not to worry him? It's, like, common sense: Seth taking her power equals him becoming the God Killer so, obviously, it works the other way around as well. If she has a chance to transfer Seth's power to her, then that means becoming the God Killer herself. And where there is a God Killer there are Gods to be killed. The one that almost brought on the Apocalypse, risking thousands of mortal, halfblood and pureblood lives is this high on the list.

Seth pouting because he doesn't actually appear in this book.

Now that, even if she succeeds, which is debatable (she is trying to kill a GOD, nothing could go wrong with that, right?), does not solve all her problems. She will be a teenaged God Killer and she will have just taken out one of the Olympians. If I were one of them I wouldn't let her survive. Much less a bunch of arrogant egomaniacs who missed the empathy train.

So, all of this is basically a chain reaction. If Aiden had spent half a minute considering what Solaris said, and, knowing him, he most certainly did, he should have come to some kind of conclusion concerning Alex's survival chances.

So why is everyone all bug-eyed when Alex admits to everything? Did they think Apollo was just letting her live out of familial affection? Or that the God who brought on all this catastrophy would be allowed to walk out of this alive? That an unstable, powerful God Killer, albeit a nice one like Alex, would be allowed to live?

If yes, what is wrong with them?!

Bonus points to Minister Diana for figuring out the right questions to ask and having enough common sense for a natural train of thought that led to th logical conclusion: the odds aren't really in Alex's favor.

I bet Aiden is heartbroken.

PS Songs!!!

1. Saving Grace by Maine. Because if Aiden is singing along a song on the roadtrip to Kansas then it should definetely be on the Covenant playlist.

2. I Was Made For Loving You by Tori Kelly. Very cheesy, I know, but so is Aiden and Alex's relationship, in a good way though, the "I'll always be there for you", "We shouldn't have secrets between us", "I'd die for you", "Let's dream of our future together" kind of cheesy! *swooning

XOXO

Aggie Pearson