We all know who Rick Riordan is. He is the writer of the famous series, Percy Jackson. Now, Rick Riordan has come up with a sequel to those series. The Heroes Of Olympus.
The book is exciting. In fact, its a page turner. You never come to know that you have finished this much pages of the book. Every page surprises me. Now, something is happening and the next page suddenly something else happens. I am always surprised by Rick Riordan and the characters in his books.
There is the great prophecy for Seven. (The prophecy is told in the last book of the Percy Jackson series.) Percy goes for missing for two to three months. The Gods have also gone silent. Annabeth, Percy's girlfriend, is searching for him. In the meantime, three new demigods (kids of Gods and mortals) come to Camp Half - Blood. They are Piper, Leo and Jason. Jason has lost his memory and gets some visions of his memory in his dreams. Eventually, he comes to know that Hera has wiped his memory.
Piper has her own problems. A monster called Enceladus has kidnapped his father.
Leo's Mom had died when he was very young.
After coming to camp, Leo came to be the son of Hephasteus, the God of fire and Machinery. During the dinner time, Piper is claimed by Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love and Jason by Zeus.
Leo is in the forest during dinner time. He finds a dragon made of bronze and cleans it. He names it Festus and during the night time he modifies him.
These three are chosen for a prophecy to find Hera and save her. But, they cant use land as Gaia, the mother earth, will do anything to stop them. Leo adds wings to Festus ands they fly on him to Quebec to find the God of the North Wind.
There they met Khoine, the Goddess of Ice. She wanted to make them statues of ice, but her father, Boreos, wouldn't allow that. From there they went to Detroit where they had to face three cyclopes. Piper and Jason were captured and Leo saved them.
After that they went to Chicago where they met Chicago, defeated her and took the cages containing Coach Gleeson Hedge, their protector, and the storm spirits. From there they fly to King Midas' place where they crash land and Festus breaks. King Midas is the person who could change anything he touched into gold. He turned Piper and Leo to gold. Jason tricked him and he turned his son into gold. Midas got trapped under a chandelier. Jason sent some lighting into the sky. The roof broke and rain poured inside. All the statues turned back into human, including Leo. Piper had to be dipped into the river outside to be got back.
Escaping from there, they took shelter in a cave for the night, where Lycaon came with a pack of werewolves. The Hunters of Artemis drive them away. Thalia stays back as she is Jason's sister. They talk a bit and Thalia takes them to Aelous' palace, the palace of the wind God. Thalia has to go after Lycaon and promises that she will meet them at the Wolf House. At Aelous' palace, they are nearly killed by the wind God, because someone orders him to kill them.
In her dreames, Piper's Mom, Aphrodite, talks to her and they go to San Francisco. At Mt. Diablo, they fight Enceladus and free Piper's Dad. Piper sees her Dad go home in his plane, accompanied by Coach Hedge.
At the Wolf House, they see Porphyron rising. They also see that Khione is the one who orders Zeus to close down Olympus. She also orders Aelous to send them to their death. After being risen, Jason keeps him busy till Piper and Leo free Hera.
Hera takes her Godly form and kills everyone, but not Porphyron. She post pones Gaia's plane to overthrow Olympus. She knows that Gaia will rise and the Gods will have to unite with the demigods to defeat their army.
Jason gets back his memory and tells Chiron, Annabeth, Leo and Piper that he is from Camp Jupiter, the Roman Camp for demigods. Hera was talking about a gamble and the gamble was he and Percy Jackson. He was sent to Camp Half - Blood as a representative and to understand their camp. That meant that Percy Jackson was in Camp Jupiter without his memory.
Camp Jupiter and Camp Half - Blood always had this rivalry. So, they had to be very careful not to fight with each other. They needed demigods from both the camps to fight Gaia's army and that is when they will succeed. For now, they had delayed Gaia's plans but by no means had they stopped her.
This book is great and people of all ages can read it. It has a sequel called The Son of Neptune which I am still reading. If you get this book, please read it because you will never find anything better than this book (at least I have not found anything better, not till now, though!)
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