I think any book is great that teaches young people about ancient history, without them realizing they are learning ancient history. I can usually remember the ‘major’ gods and goddesses, but don’t necessarily always remember their correlating Greek name/personality. I particularly enjoyed this novel as I learned more about the Roman pantheon. It just seemed like a lot of diversity piled into the last three novels of Riordan’s that I met – when maybe it was there before and it just wasn’t this explicit. It was almost as if someone told him that Percy Jackson and the Olympians was too white and that there was a need for minority characters, or perhaps he realized this on his own. All four are uniquely interesting and bring different perspectives to the story, however I have to ask why Riordan included them.

Told from the perspective of Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon/Neptune, Frank Zhang, son of Mars/Ares, and Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto/Hades, this novel is more action-packed and less focused on remembering than the first novel in this new cycle.Īlthough I felt Leo and Piper were great additions in this new series, I feel like Frank and Hazel added a different dimension. Like in The Lost Hero, The Son of Neptune revolves around three protagonists with various minor characters (and some major characters from The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) making appearances.

(However, he knows more than Jason – I guess because his story was already written.) Instead of waking up in Camp Half-Blood, he is on the run from various monsters and steadily making his way to Camp Jupiter – a Roman demigod camp located somewhere in California – where all Greeks face a cold welcome. Not only do we not find out what happened over the past eight months, he was apparently sleeping, but he also appears with very little recollection of who he is and what he’s done in the recent past. However, rather than continuing with Leo, Piper and Jason we finally get to catch up with Percy Jackson. This novel takes place immediately after the events of The Lost Hero. I’ve already discussed my lack of enthusiasm over the Kane Chronicles so I’ll move right in to this review/summary/pontification. In book two of The Heroes of Olympus cycle, Riordan comes through on the perceived promise of keeping things as exciting as in The Percy Jackson and the Olympians cycle.

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